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Whoo Hoo. Thank you. I have a favorites now and it has picked up my 5 star books from my read listI am one happy camper :)
I discovered recently General GR Group Wide Discussions. I was interested in discussions on The Picture of Dorian Gray. Looking for alternative discussions on the book I was pointed in the direction of Discuss this book It can be found (not easily) by scrolling to the very bottom of the books reviews (before polls). As there were no particular active discussions happening I started up one of my own. Just to test the water. Yay. Random people have come in and joined the discussion.
This is the discussion.
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...
It has been a bit of fun and something different to try.
This is the discussion.
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...
It has been a bit of fun and something different to try.
Garmen it wasn't a particular group. It was open to all members of GR which is why I posted it in here, so people could see what is available.
Michael wrote: "Got a quick question for all the genius member's here. How do you post images from from non photobucket like sites. I tried following the html thing here but i cant seem to get them to work. :("You grab the URL of the image and then you write some html code is all you do so for example.
<0img src="URLGOESINHERE"0>
Just take out the 0's infront of img and at the end of ". It's the only way I can show the code.
I'm not sure where this should be, but I need to know: Is anyone having trouble with Goodreads consistently signing them out? I am, and it's been ongoing for about a week now. I can still write reviews and change the shelf a book belongs to; I can delete books; yet cannot add new books or change editions. Anyone know what's going on? It's starting to really get on my nerves!~S.
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No Sarah, I haven't had that problem..sounds annoying! But maybe you should go to the Goodreads Feedback group and pose the question. If you're not a member, just join, and make your own thread if you can't find a relevent one... http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...
Hope they can help you.
Yuck :( That sounds like a very irritating problem,Sarah! I have that issue with other forums and the only way I've sorta fixed it was by cleaning out Temp internet folder, plus cookies. But only for GR nothing else..Atleast in FF you can select what you wanna delete and leave everything else.
Thanks Brenda & Laura; I will try cleaning out the internet folder, and if that doesn't work will head over to the Feedback group and see if they can help. ~S.
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Can anyone please tell me hoe I can remove a book from my to read shelf? I have tried the help section but couldn't find out how.
Thanks Carmel, I worked out that it's the only place you can list a book as unread, a bit annoying really because I like to have a list of books I'd like to read on hand when I go to the library so I've just had to leave them on there. I wanted to just use the To Read shelf for the pile of books on my bedside table,lol, but I can't.
Danielle wrote: "Thanks Carmel, I worked out that it's the only place you can list a book as unread, a bit annoying really because I like to have a list of books I'd like to read on hand when I go to the library so..."Danielle, you can create lots of lists on your bookshelves. I have (ahem.....) many actually, including my own TBR - to find at library.
Have a look at my profile / page and look at the list of bookshelves I have. Towards the end you'll see "TBR...." and three or four different types which I have listed for myself aside from the Goodreads Read/TBR/Currently Reading at the very top of the list.
Has anyone seen the new Goodreads recommendation system? I've been waiting for it for ages!!! Ever since I heard that goodreads brought discovereads and was going to incorporate it into their site. It's like the netflix of recommendations and based on what I've seen of my recommendations it is pretty good.
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I use the iPhone or iPad app a lot so I only just saw it was finally up and running. But its not going to help my to read pile
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Ha! Of course not:) Ours will all get much bigger now >.<
I'll ignore it...I don't need any temptations to make my TBR any bigger :s
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Laura wrote: "I'll ignore it...I don't need any temptations to make my TBR any bigger :s"you know you want to look :P
They won't resist for long KL.
Carmel wrote: "How To create a bookshelf, eg Abandoned or Couldn't finish thanks Knowledge:)Under 'My Books' click the edit bookshelves button up the top left. Go to the bottom and create a bookshelf thats call..."
It's a handy too, I use the same thing for my 'To-Read-On-Shelf' and 'On-Hold' shelves
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Hi MandyI'd like to let people know about a Aussie women writers book challenge I have organised for next year as part of the National Year of Reading campaign.
I've searched for challenges, but it appears no more can be added. Is there another place?
Cheers
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I'd like to let people know about a Aussie women writers book challenge I have organised for next year as part of the National Year of Reading campaign.
I've searched for challenges, bu..."
Elizabeth, Mandy is no longer a moderator of this group, it's myself, Carmel and Laura who do all the challenges. We take suggestions from everyone in the group, and then incorporate them into our monthly/seasonal/annual challenges. We are currently working on the beginning of next years with the National Year of Reading, and we actually had a thread going where everyone put their ideas forward. If you'd like to PM one of us with all the details, we can see about putting it in there somewhere. We are very appreciative of suggestions!
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For those of you not sure how to do it, go to the 'add book/author' link at the top of your comment box, and after clicking on it, type in the name of your book. It will come up with a list, choose the correct title, and click on 'add'. It will then show in your comment box. When wanting to add the author, switch from 'book' to 'author' and click 'add' for the correct author. Down the bottom of the box, you will see 'cover', click on that if you want your book cover to show in the comment box.
I hope that is clear, and if anyone needs any questions answered, please ask, as there are many of us happy to help you all:)
I got an email from goodreads telling me that 2 of my books are in danger due to the unlinking process to amazon. It says I need to rescue them - and all I have to do is go and press the rescue button. I can't find a rescue button? Does anyone know where to look?
Its ok - I am answering my own question here :)Go to:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7...
And in the posting is a link to books at risk (you need to be logged in for it to work) once pressed it will take you to another page where there will be list of any of your books at risk - if there are no books then presume yours are ok for now - click either delete if you no longer want it, or rescue me if you do - fill in the fields and press the button - viola - all fixed!!!
You may see a lot of this; as well as cover art disappearing as Goodreads moves away from Amazon as a data source. If you have any issues with books, either regarding rescuing or disappearing, talk to one of the librarians in the group, I'm one and I'm surprised the only moderator here with librarian access is Brenda; though there are probably a heap more in the group
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Amazon set the deadline at 30th January, no exceptions, and only told GR on Friday 27th, late, that they were pulling the data from Kindle as well. So things have been rather frantic. I rescued a lot of books on my friend's lists, as well as my own, so hopefully no-one will have any trouble. But absolutely none of your input data will be lost, eg reviews etc. So don't worry there.
GR has imported 14M book records to the site from one company, and is using many more to get all the extra data.
IMO, everything will be a WHOLE lot better once everything is finalised in the next week or so. There'll be some tidying up to be done, for sure, but in the long run, things will improve for us all, out of sight.
Any questions from anyone at all, please feel free to ask....I will do my best to answer them for you:)
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It's very easy, there's a manual to read if you need help, and there's always someone there who has more experience and can help out, until you're the one with experience!
If I can do it, anyone can!
I is a very handy tool to have for anyone addicted to Goodreads
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OCD Much :P I'm the same way, I want the books to have all the correct information on it
Knowledge Lost wrote: "You may see a lot of this; as well as cover art disappearing as Goodreads moves away from Amazon as a data source. If you have any issues with books, either regarding rescuing or disappearing, talk..."I got the email from goodreads but seemed unable to resurrect two books. One of whidh I didnt finish so it was no big deal but one I still have on my shelf and I really liked although she is an obscure (dead) author. Couldnt help that one either. This is a shame but what can we do about it? Hate thinking we have been beholden to Amazon all this time and noone else can pick up the slack!
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Anne can you give me a link to that second book, so I can see if I can help you with it?
Knowledge Lost wrote: "You may see a lot of this; as well as cover art disappearing as Goodreads moves away from Amazon as a data source. If you have any issues with books, either regarding rescuing or disappearing, talk..."I actually applied to be one today :)
Ok, I'm gonna have to ask and risk sounding like a fool, coz I have no idea...How does one get the grey italicised text after their name?
E.g. Laura, Tigger?
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How does one get the grey italicised text after their name?
E.g. Laura, Tigger?"
You have to be a moderator to have that privilege, Lynxie...sorry!
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Didn't you know either Michael?
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Thanks Brenda! I thought I was going nuts! I couldn't work it out :)
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Hahahaha!!
Lynxie wrote: "Thanks Brenda! I thought I was going nuts! I couldn't work it out :)"
Not going nuts Lynxie;P
deleted user wrote: "Some of us are shy Jan. Besides I like my shadow avatar, it is me after all. :)My avatar is both rainbowy and shadowy. It is also for privacy - especially as I have written books that could be somewhat controversial. For the same reason, I keep my exact whereabouts very quiet.
Such a picky point I have but it drives me crazy and surely something can be done about this?When you need to move forward to the next page say of a discussion, you must scroll to the very bottom of the current page. Can we please put the 'next page' thingy at the top? Or is there a faster way for me to move forward page by page rather than scrolling to the bottom of each page?
Aussie Readers
Books mentioned in this topic
Peter Brock: How Good is This! (other topics)Frankenstein (other topics)
On the Banks of Plum Creek (other topics)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (other topics)
The Ghosts of Ashbury High (other topics)
"If you choose the read shelf (default setting), we randomly display 5 star rated books. You may also choose to have no shelf displayed, by unchecking the currently featured shelf." - From the editing page :)