Goodreads Tips & Tricks

[Melinda]

Kooloo wrote: "At the top of the page it will ask you if you want to a Open In The App you need to click no BUT you need to close the goodreads page first and the web browser to start from the beginning.

You wil..."

I was trying everything and I couldn’t get on the website. I closed the goodreads page. Just wouldn’t redirect to website. When I deleted the app.it worked. Thankyou for your help. 😘

[Tessa]

Honest truth? I just look at the little bell icon to see if I have notifications. It's less annoying than constant notifications pinging on my phone. But email works too.

[Melinda]

So does that mean you log into the website each time to see if there are comments. I think I might keep the app on my phone, for notifications and then I will log onto the iPad if I need to make comment. Thanks for your help. Today it's going to be 99 f a hot one.

[Kooloo]

Gahhhh crazy hot
And yes that’s exactly what I do = App on my phone and website you have to log into on my iPad 🤓

[Melinda]

Thanks girls. It's all working now since I deleted the app. 😁❤️

[Melinda]

HELP, HELP, EVERY BOOK IS UPDATING ON FACEBOOK.

How has it just started to do this all by itself.

How do I stop it!!!

[Paula]

There is a little tick box for FB update - have you ticked that by accident?

[Melinda]

It is automatically ticking everything and I have to untick it all.

How do I make goodreads automatically tick the fb update. 🙊

[Paula]

Once I unticked it it stayed that way for me - I had the same happen to me when I was sorting out my bookshelves, now it is always unticked

[Melinda]

Paula wrote: "Once I unticked it it stayed that way for me - I had the same happen to me when I was sorting out my bookshelves, now it is always unticked"

There might be help for me yet. I might have a look at settings.

[Nay]

I think GR has a mind of its own a lot of the time. I CONSTANTLY tell it I don't want to receive emails, and it'll just start sending them to me for various threads.

What bugs me more than anything is when I go in to do some reviews I forgot and I tell it not to post on my update thread and it does it anyway.

[Tessa]

Go to your account settings, under your account button and go to apps. There, it has a spot that says "publish". Unclick every one of those boxes and click save settings. It'll stop posting things on Facebook right away.

[Melinda]

Thankyou so much Tessa. I went through and deleted all the settings then checked on an update and it still went to post on fb.😬

[Tessa]

Grrrrr! Contact GR because that shouldn't be happening once you get rid of all those clicks. I unclicked it when I first started posting stuff here, since it drove me crazy.

[Lisa]

That's just frustrating - I certainly don't need the entire Facebook world seeing all the dark and smutty things I like to read!!!

[Melinda]

I've been trying to fix it. On the kindle it says to disable the fb settings. I've done that and it's not working it's still ticking the link to fb automatically.

[Ela]

WHY IS EVERYTHING SHOWING UP AS READ 2 TIMES ON GR....AGAIN! AND IT WON'T LET YOU DELETE ONE OF THE READ DATES!

[Leslie]

Ela, I have been freaking out over this!!!!

[Nay]

I've been noticing that too. I've been seeing some people with read 3 and 4 times.

I've been having that extra read date show up on about half of my reviews, and I always x it out. I just tried to do it on two of my books and it worked on one of them, but I can't get it to work on the other. Urgh! Frustrating!

[Nay]

I just got rid of two of them, but I had to go into the review, x out the blank date, save the review, and then it was still there, so I went back in and did it again. For both, it worked the 2nd time.

Sorry if they all show up on your update feeds. I unchecked the 'add to update feed' box, but that never seems to work for me.

[Leslie]

Nay, are doing this on a pc, tablet, phone or what? No matter what I do it doesn't seem to work on my phone. I thought maybe it would work if I tried it on a PC.

[Nay]

Leslie wrote: "Nay, are doing this on a pc, tablet, phone or what? No matter what I do it doesn't seem to work on my phone. I thought maybe it would work if I tried it on a PC."

I did it on my laptop.

[Leslie]

Ok, I am going to have to try it using laptop and see if that works. I basically only use my phone and I know sometimes not all functions work on a mobile device (despite being on non-mobile site). Grrrrrr

[Leslie]

This is obviously a glitch in Goodreads because I am not marking anything as read twice. It's driving me crazy.