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NetGalley October 2017
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Start of Month:
Books on Shelf : 8
Books:
Feedback ratio: 92%
FINISHED
review
review
reviewADDED
End of Month:
Books on shelf: 5
Feedback Ratio:95%
I'm in. I'm determined that this is the month I finally reach 80%. I'm sooo closeBeginning of Month
Feedback Ratio 78%
Books on Shelf: 38
Planning to Read
Read & still to Review
Reviews Posted
Books Added:
Current
Feedback Ratio 78%
Books on Shelf 39
I'm in. Hope I do better this month than last.Beginning of Month:
Books on Shelf: 17
Netgalley Ratio: 84%
End of Month:
Read: 2
Reviews: 1
The Art of Hiding review
Added: 1
Feedback sent to publisher/no review:
unable to accessBooks on Shelf: 16
Ratio: 86%
I'm in again!Start of month:
Books on shelf: 30
Feedback Ratio: 63%
Books (ordered by pub date):
Added:
Finished:
My Review
My Review
My Review
My Review
My Review
My ReviewEnd of Month:
Books on shelf: 28
Feedback Ratio: 67%
How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 10What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 67%
What books are on your NG shelf:
Currently (finally) Reading:
New
DNF [feedback sent]
Read but not reviewed [feedback sent]
Read & Reviewed
End of the month(view spoiler)
I seem to be going backwards on this productively reading thing. Almost like this is a fantastic time of year for books to come out, or something?On Shelf: 20
Feedback Ratio 88%
To read:
October starting books on shelf: 53October starting ratio: 79%
Books that have been published: 36
October books: 9
Upcoming: 8
I'm in! I just started net galley earlier this year, and I need to motivate myself to read these books and get my reviews in! Beginning of month
Number of books on shelf: 16
Books:
Feedback Ratio: 6%
Read & Need to Review:
Read & Reviewed:
Books from Authors To Review:
End of Month:
Review Links:
Updated Shelf Count:
Updated Ratio
On Shelf 75Ratio 79%
Goal 10 Books
The Brigadier's Runaway Bride
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
On Shelf 77
Ratio 79%
NetGalley Challenge: October 2017STARTING FEEDBACK RATIO: 83%
BOOKSHELF
Can I just say how ecstatic I am to have Tess of the Road?!
REVIEWS:
ADDED:
CURRENT FEEDBACK RATIO: 83%
Start of Month: October Books on Shelf : 17
Books:
Current titles:
Older than 3 months:
ADDED IN OCTOBER
Feedback ratio to start: 77%
FINISHED
End of Month:
Books on shelf: 15
Feedback Ratio: 79%
Alison wrote: "Guess what???"
COngrats!!!
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well done!
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I have a uni exam in 2 weeks but I'm really hoping to be able to get through one more this month
Thanks all. All it will take is one request to be approved and it'll be gone again but I can't believe I've finally made it. Now I need to try and clear some of the 30 archived books on my shelf.
Way to go, Alison! I don't think they take the badges away once you've earned them. You can copy and paste them elsewhere.
I finally finished one this month. I read The Art of Hiding. It was good, but not great. I still need to write the review.
Oh they definitely take it away. I had a request approved and I'm back to 79% :(Will post a review or two tonight though so should get it back.
Guess it's never too late to join. I got approved for more than normal this month, so I need to get on it to get my ratio back up! Really just going to try and finish 1-2 this month. Starting Ratio: 52%
Current Shelf: 10
Finished: 0
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I liked it, but I'm not sure of the magical realism component. It was a little too minor to be of an importance so felt like it didn't quite fit
review
Alison wrote: "Oh they definitely take it away. I had a request approved and I'm back to 79% :(Will post a review or two tonight though so should get it back."
Oh no! That's so strange. I copy and pasted mine onto GR, so I may not have it in Netgalley all the time, but I'll keep it here!
Beginning of monthBooks on shelf: 8
Feedback ratio: 80%
Added in October: 4
With my third Netgalley book this month, I got a new badge!
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I seem to have gotten over excited about the whole 80% thing resulting in a request spree. Oh well, I was at 80% for like a whole day plus I got approved for
so it's worth it.
I know not many of you are in the UK but has anyone seen anything about the new UK netgalley site? It seems to go live on the 25th but there has been pretty much nothing on whether your shelf and wot not transfers over or if you're starting from scratch.
Alison wrote: "I know not many of you are in the UK but has anyone seen anything about the new UK netgalley site? It seems to go live on the 25th but there has been pretty much nothing on whether your shelf and w..."I'm not in the UK, but I did see on Twitter the Netgalley account post an FAQ about it.
https://netgalley.uservoice.com/knowl...
Thanks Melanie that's exactly what I've been looking for but couldn't find.
I logged in today and I just suddenly found this 
Yay! Congrats, Nicole! I'm almost there too. If I could just get a little focused.
It's such a pretty badge. It just seems like not that long ago that I got the 50 to be honest ;) Thank goodness for this group!
I just got a protected PDF of Healthyish: A Cookbook with Seriously Satisfying, Truly Simple, Good-For-You (but not too Good-For-You) Recipes for Real Life. However, when I open it, I only have access to a few random pages and the rest are all blank, white pages. I'm currently using adobe digital. Do you guys have anything different I might try? Something you use?I hate getting protected PDFs. I just want everything to go to my Kindle. I also don't like that they're dated and you can't go back to them later.
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woohoo!
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Urgh. I hate those PDFs too. I wish NetGalley would say the format available before we request :)
Have you tried BlueFire Reader? I find that works better for the ones I've gotten
I have not tried that one, Karen. Thanks! I’ll check it out.
End of monthBooks on shelf: 6
Feedback ratio: 84%
Read and reviewed: 6
Nicole wrote: "I logged in today and I just suddenly found this "
Wow! Congratulations!
I know I've said this before but there really should be some way to ban yourself from requesting on NetGalley.10 books I've added to my shelf so far this month and I have three requests outstanding. Thank goodness I got knocked back for a couple (apparently because "the limit for the number of downloads has been reached for this title!" which seems odd as they only went up today).
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10 books I've added to my shelf so far this month and I have three requests outstandi..."
;) teehee
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reviewOh I didn't add any this month. :o
End of Month:
Books on shelf: 5
Feedback Ratio:95%
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Feed Your Readers, the NetGalley Challenge
Duration: Monthly
How to Participate:
The NetGalley Challenge is designed to not only get you to read your NetGalley books, but to also advertise your reviews for others to see because after all, that's what NetGalley is all about.
Though you may pop in/out at any time, the NetGalley Challenge will run on a monthly basis so you are able to see progress being made.
1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf
b: What books are on your NG shelf
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is
2. During the month, read the NetGalley books that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)
3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s)**
c: Your updated shelf count
d: Your updated books to read
e: Your updated ratio
Then start a new post for the next month!
Do you ever get so caught up in your reading that you don't want to stop to write your reviews?
Thinking about that, it was decided we need a "Review Weekend", once each month, set aside to write those reviews you've been not doing in favor of reading!
Review Weekends will vary randomly each month and is meant to be a time set aside to review. Take one, or both days and get caught up on reviews so you can spend the rest of the month reading!!
The next Review Weekend is set for Oct 21/22
**When linking your reviews, please link only to the book(s) here at GoodReads. At this time, linking to a personal blog is not allowed. Thank you!