NetGalley August 2017

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Finished

Fairly ordinary thriller
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[Elizabeth]

Just got
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[Elizabeth]

Just got one of my pending books

[Elizabeth]

Something happened, all my reviews went missing when I went to up date my shelf

[Elizabeth]

Just got invited to read ,and since I've never read books 1or 2 of this series I've requested them.

[Kristie]

I was doing so well getting caught up and I was just approved for A Plague of Giants! It's a little chunkier that I usually like to get through NetGalley (624 pages), but I'm really curious where Kevin Hearne will go with this new series. Plus, there's one off my pending shelf! :)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Oh well done Kristie! I was declined for that one - I think it was only for US reviewers

[Nicole]

Oh that's good to know, Karen. Now you've stopped me from requesting it. I was on the fence about it, but that's solved my problem :D

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

September thread is now open here!

[Nicole]

I did really well this month! So many of my old ones are no longer on my list :D

To read:



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[Maddie]

Oh no here I am requesting books again. Kind of hoping I don't get all of them because I have no time :p I haven't used Netgalley for ages because of my lack of time.

[Nicole]

Hhahaha, I have uselessly stopped reading almost all books that don't come from Netgalley in an attempt to catch up.

It doesn't fix my request issue at all.

OOOH OOH ANNABETH ALBERT"S NEW BOOK IS ON THERE!! *grabby hands*

[Maddie]

Haha yeah basically :p What happens if we miss reading a book by the archived date. How do we get them off our dashboard?

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

4th and last one for August means I started with 7 on my shelf and ended with 7!


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This one was in the "older than 3 months" shelf so I'm glad to have finished it. That shelf really annoys me. I read by publication date so I hate having by books split based on the day I download. Anyone else find that annoying?

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Maddison wrote: "Haha yeah basically :p What happens if we miss reading a book by the archived date. How do we get them off our dashboard?"

You can still submit the review after the archived date

[Melanie]

I went a bit request happy this month, so I ended the month with 5 more than I started with. Plus I have another 5 still pending.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 27
Feedback Ratio: 61%

Finished:
My Review My Review My Review My Review

These two I finished and still need to review.


Added:


End of Month:
Books on shelf: 32
Feedback Ratio: 60%

[Delitealex]

Definitely gonna try to limit requesting till I can get these numbers down....sigh. I am happy that I got so much read though. I will be more organized with my reading hopefully in Sept.


Beginning of the month

a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf
Current 116
Older than 3 months 104
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is
18%

End of the month
a: What books you read
14 books read 12 reviewed
Currently reading/up next/need to review
(1 of 5)

Read

c: Your updated shelf count
136 current 124 older

e: Your updated ratio
19%

[Kristie]

I did fairly well. I requested too many books, so I went backwards, but I still reviewed 4, which is great for me.

Beginning of Month:
Books on Shelf: 16
Netgalley Ratio: 85%

End of Month:
Books on Shelf: 18
Ratio: 84%

Read & Reviewed: 4
Buzz Books: Reviewed on NetGalley only
Everything You Want Me to Be review
The Breakdown review
Hook's Tale review

Added: 6

[Maddie]

I requested A Plague of Giants too!

[Kristie]

Good luck, Maddison. It took them a little while to get back to me.

[Lara]

Well, after having a couple of slow months (at least in terms of reading and reviewing NG books), I have finally gotten a lot of books read. And I managed to add even more to my shelf!

August starting books on shelf: 47
August starting ratio: 79%
Read and reviewed: 18
review review review review review review review review review review review review review review review review review review

Added in August: 19
Ending books on shelf: 49
Ending ratio: 80%

[Maddie]

how do you find your ratio?

And do we count books we have on our shelf that have been archived?

[Kristie]

We count any book that is on your shelf that you haven't given feedback for yet. You find that under the "give feedback" tab. There will be two parts that you can click on "Current titles (#) | Older than 3 months (#)". We list the total # of books. Some people say how many are current and how many are older than 3 months, but you don't have to.

You find your percentage on your profile page. Click on your name / profile pic at the top of the page. It will bring you to your profile page. To the right of your profile pic it will say "feedback ratio". That is the percentage we use. It also tells you how many books you've been approved for and how many you've given feedback for, which is pretty cool to see.

[Maddie]

Oh wow thank you that was so helpful!

[Kristie]

You're welcome!