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How does Goodreads handle re-reading a book?
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Oct 03, 2014 09:40AM
I looked in Goodreads' help, but nothing showed up on a search of "rereading". Has anyone read a book more than once and tracked it on Goodreads? How does it affect your saved progress and/or your review?
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If you want to keep up with books that you have read more than once, it s simple to do. Designate a "shelf" re-read. Re reads don't count on your reading challenge. You can always add to or amend a review to say you went back for seconds and if you got a deeper or different perspective . I do re-read quite often, and use the retread shelf to make note of these. Hope this helps with your question.
This is rather disappointing — is there any way to go around this ? Mark a different edition of the same book as read for the reread to be considered ?
It's certainly an OK workaround. It'd be nice if it was handled in a way to allow it to count and/or have a series of reviews so you could easily compare across reads. Oh well. Everything can't handle every situation.
I re-read a book and it counted on my book challenge!
Jenn, did you previously have that book listed on your read shelf, or just add it when you did this re read?
Eric wrote: "I looked in Goodreads' help, but nothing showed up on a search of "rereading". Has anyone read a book more than once and tracked it on Goodreads? How does it affect your saved progress and/or your ..."I seem to be having the same problem. Strange.....
Have any of you raised this in the Feedback Group ( https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/... )? Seems to me that would be your best bet.
"How does Gr handle re-reads?"Poorly, very poorly.
Amelia wrote: "Have any of you raised this in the Feedback Group ( https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/... )? Seems to me that would be your best bet."Please, please do not bring to the feedback group, at least not with a new thread. o_O It is probably the most requested thing in feedback for the past five years or so, with more duplicate threads on that issue than any other.
I re-read a book and it counted on my book challenge!
If you read another edition of a book, it will count. That is the current workaround people use - you can do a new review or click "review this edition" when shelving another edition of the same book. It's not perfect, but it won't mess up challenge numbers, it will keep reading count more accurate (would count as #2 numbers instead of 1), etc.
Another thing you can do is choose a different edition of the book the second time you read it. It may not be the specific edition you are actually reading, but at least it will count twice in your stats. Of course, the book will also show up twice in your "read" shelf, but this might be something you have to deal with if you want to have both read dates in your records.
I added reread shelf. You just click currently reading from the read bar. You will have to keep your own track on the dates read to correct when you edit your review and naturally change the number of times you have read the book.
What Tammy said, but also, perhaps you can write into your review itself the specific different dates you read the book.
There's two/ three options I know off:1. You just update the (read date of the) book
2. you choose different edition
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3. you have the book you've read and you create the bookshelf "reread" and place the "read" book under "rereads" - and at the same time you need to change the date you've last read the book.
