SOS: Serious Overload of Series discussion
Team Challenge: BookShelf Bingo
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BookShelf BINGO: Tips for Finding a BSB Book
How to check if a specific book is on one of our bingo shelves: (hopefully it makes sense - I'll use Bone Crossed as an example )
1. Go to GR book page for the book you want to read
Bone Crossed book page
2. Scroll down the page just a bit and click on "popular shelves" (right side) for the book
Bone Crossed popular shelves
3. With that (popular shelves) page open in your browser, click: CTRL-F (Windows users) or Command-F (Mac users) to bring up your FIND option
4. Type the exact shelf name (as shown at the top of the GR shelf page ... newest shelf announcement example: current GR shelf page = urban-dark-fantasy) in the FIND search box
5. With the shelf name in your FIND search box, on the book's 'popular shelf' page, click NEXT as you scroll through each page. Sometimes you find it (EXAMPLE: Bone Crossed is shelved as 'urban-dark-fantasy' on page 3; column 2; 16 down) and sometimes you don't. You still have to scroll through the pages, but this way, the computer does the searching for you.
Other Tips to Finding a BSB BookProvided by our lovely BSB players
Daffodil & Heather suggested:
1. Go to the GR shelf announced for the week (IE: 'young-adult-paranormal' shelf page)
2. Find a book listed that you read and really enjoyed (I'll use Vampire Academy for this example) and click on the link stating how many times that book has been shelved with that tag (IE: (shelved 57 times as young-adult-paranormal) )
3. This link will bring up a page of the people who shelved that book as "young-adult-paranormal"
4. By each person's name, you will see # of friends, # of books, and a link to # of books on that shelf. In this example, Anita has 83 young-adult-paranormal books.
5. If you click on that link it will take you to her YA paranormal shelf where you can search for a book to choose
Daffodil says, It's really worked for me, because I'm looking through the shelf of someone who has similar reading tastes (usually) and I don't have to sort out a bunch of books that don't interest me as much.
Deborah Suggests:
If on a touchscreen (with no easy way to Ctrl-F without keyboard), your browser screen search window/menu-choice/blank that finds things on web may also have a "...on this page" option/section further down. The Safari browser on iPad does (with browser open there's a place to right of menu to enter a website address and another to enter search terms -- enter search terms and glance down bottom of choices that start showing up for "...on this page...").
Natalie suggests:
You can actually use the link to look up any possible shelf. I had to use GR in place of www.goodreads.com since the link was too long to show up
GR/shelf/users/25689074-stars-above?shelf=aliens
For any book, if you click on the number of users next to a shelf, it'll give the above page for the shelf. Then you can just edit the link to look up any shelf you want as opposed to sorting through many pages of shelves/books. Shelves with spaces like series to read will need a hyphen inbetween: series-to-read
So, if like me you see books from a series, but not the one you want to read, I can just go to the book page, click on the number of users for a shelf and then input my shelf and see if it pops up!
Just found this...but so helpful! Thanks!
Great! You're welcome. :)
Ah, this is so very helpful Steph!! Thank you sooo much. I cannot tell you how many times I've gone through just looking and looking and looking and looking... and... well, you get the point! Thanks! :)
You're welcome! :D
Um I did this and didn't get it. When I put the bookshelf name in it just highlights the shelf name, which I can see easily anyway. If I do it on that bookshelfs name it just highlights the shelf name on each book. I tried putting the title in on the shelf page and I still had to scan every page to see where the book I wanted was.
double post. anyone know what I was doing wrong?
Mary did you start on the book's page first?Write down exactly what you did then we can see where you're going wrong.
Well I actually figured out how to search a shelf for a book. I ended up doing the ctrl/f thing on the shelf page. Then I did a key word search. I had to go down to the bottom to get to the next page each time. But I didn't have to scroll through each book. I just had to hit the search word again and it would say up top if any matched on the page. And I found the book I was looking for faster then just scrolling page by page.
Good, I'm glad that works for you.
Glad you found a solution!
Ditto! There are many ways to hunt through the shelves, glad you found one that works for you. The hunt is part of the fun, IMO.
Boohoo! Did anyone else notice that GR replaced the "shelved as" to "genre"? Think it's the same thing? Using shelves or tags to put in genre categories?Guess it's back to searching the shelf page for me if not.
If you click on the more link it is supposed to take you to the shelves. I haven't tried it but that's what they said in Feedback.
I'm not sure but if you click on "more genres", it links to the shelves page so I'm guessing they take it from the shelves?
Ah! You're right, Sandra. If you click on 'more genres' it does take you to 'BOOK > top shelves'. That'll work. :) Phew! LOL!
Right?! I was bummed there for a minute thinking I'd actually have to flip through every page of these shelf lists. LOL!
I always flip through just to see what's there. Never know what I want to read next. Some great ideas of books to check out also.
yeah I freaked for a minute until I found that "more genres" really takes you to the shelf list.I haven't been using the actual lists either. I've just been bringing up the book I want to read and checking there. If there's a lot of shelves for the book I do the ctrl/f thing. So far only 1 hasn't come up for the shelf I first wanted to use it for (but I was able to read it the next weeks shelf).
I like to flip through, only if I don't have a specific book I want to read (and hope is there). Otherwise, I'm off to the book's shelves. :DThat's great to hear, Mary. I'm glad it's worked out that way for you. Same here.
Here's another way to find a book from a shelf that works for me.Use the link to go to the shelf.
Find a book on the shelf that you read and really enjoyed. (Much easier sometimes than finding one on your TBR.)
Below the title, next to the author there is phrase in parentheses that says "shelved x times as favorite-series". (using this weeks shelf as an example) Click on that phrase.
It will take you to a page of people who shelved that book as favorite-series. Under their name are 3 statistics. # of books. # of friends. # of books on that particular shelf.
If you click on that bottom tag, it will take you to that person's favorite-series shelf. And those books will also be on the bigger GR shelf of the same name.
It's really worked for me, because I'm looking through the shelf of someone who has similar reading tastes (usually) and I don't have to sort out a bunch of books that don't interest me as much.
Great suggestion/tip, Daffodil! Thanks for sharing it! :D
Never thought of doing that, very nice tip, thanks!
I like that Daffodil--good thinking, girl. ;)
Daffodil wrote: "Here's another way to find a book from a shelf that works for me..."I love the easy way!! Thanks, Daffodil!!
I updated post #2 to include Daffodil and Heather's suggestion, which were very similar. If you have any suggestions on helpful ways to find a BSB book each week, please share them here.
If on a touchscreen (with no easy way to Ctrl-F without keyboard), your browser screen search window/menu-choice/blank that finds things on web may also have a "...on this page" option/section further down. The Safari browser on iPad does (with browser open there's a place to right of menu to enter a website address and another to enter search terms -- enter search terms and glance down bottom of choices that start showing up for "...on this page...").Some of the free and commercial crawler/harvesting type of apps/softwares will troll thru and save layers of web pages vs. just the one page in view (Instapaper, Sierra iCollect, etc. -- not advertising for any of them because away from my desktop and unable to test on stupid smartphone typing from. Grrrrrrr....vent....moan....groan...stupid autocorrect keeps overwriting numbers of all things)
Great! Thanks, Deborah :)
I'm a little lost. What shelves are we taking about? The shelves on this site?
Joanne, this is to find a specific book on a called bingo shelf. It won't make sense to you until you join the game later in the year.
Joanne, the BINGO squares instead of numbers like B42 or I23 are instead lnks to goodreads shelves. The book players read to stamp the square have to come from specified shelf. Easy to get while playing after first couple if squares unto game. Sounds complicated when trying to explain.
Hi, Alexandria. We typically host a few rounds a year. Maybe you can join us in a future round.
Nothing exactly to do with shelves; but, goodreads has made some changes to their Genre pages in case anyone was used to clicking certain menus/pages/links there to locate books and shelves.
Natalie from Team 7 in the current round of BSB noticed something and has a genius tip for checking to see if a specific book is on a specific shelf. Her msg is here.I'll use her book and explain how to use a web browser to find a it on a shelf. Checking too see if
is on this weeks Aliens shelf is actually a perfect example of how messed up the shelves are. Natalie had trouble finding it, I eventually found it on page 39 of the books "top shelves" listing, with -2 listed as shelving it. In the course of 5 minutes it shifted to page 40. (I assume someone added it to another shelf). I just briefly glanced and it's not on either of those two pages anymore and I don't really want to dedicate the time to locating it again. Even though -2 people were listed as shelving it (again I ask how can a negative number of people shelve a book), when you clicked on the -2 it took you to a page that showed that 14 people had actually shelved it as Aliens, currently the page shows that 16 people shelved it as Aliens. (Does that mean the other list would show 0? LOL) This is where Natalie noticed something in the actual web address of the page. I've listed it below, substituting *** for t & eliminating GR's main address at the beginning so it doesn't get converted into a link:h**ps://... /shelf/users/25689074-stars-above?shelf=aliens
Now if you change shelf=aliens to shelf=favorites in the main address bar, it will take you to a page that lists all the GR members who have shelved Stars Above on their Favorites shelf. If the shelf has more than 1 word, just insert a hyphen between each word. shelf=to-buy will list members who shelved Stars Above on their To Buy shelf. shelf=daffodil takes you to a page that says "Sorry, no users found." because no one has it on a shelf titled Daffodil.
So suppose we want to see if someone has shelved
on the Aliens shelf, we could hunt through the shelf until we find it on page 63. We could search through the top shelves for Vision in Silver until we find it there. Or we could do the following.1. Go to Vision in Silver's main page and click on See top shelves...
2. Pick any shelf listed and click on the number of people who have shelved it under that listing, not the shelf itself. So for Vision in Silver I clicked on 703 people next to the fantasy listing.
3. Go up to the address bar in your browser and change the ending to shelf=aliens. This will take you to a page that shows 2 people have shelved Vision in Silver on the Aliens shelf.
Daffodil and Natalie - thank you - that is SOOOO helpful!
That's awesome! I clicked on 343 people which is the favorites shelf; just to see if the same thing would happen. I changed the web address to shelf=aliens and it took me to the page with the 2 people listed as shelving it as an aliens book.Thanks so much for sharing!!
Wonderful! Thanks! :D
Now this is an awesome Goodreads hack. I know I will be using it a lot. Thanks. :)
I thought I'd post this here, since Daffodil taught me the trick. (Thanks, Daffodil!) I posted this in another group, for members who are looking for our Sub-Genre of the Month. How to Locate a Specific Book on a Shelf (or to check if it's there):
There's a quicker way to look up if a you want to know if a book you want to read it 'tagged' on a certain shelf. I learned it in SOS. (Thanks, Daffodil!) Her comment is here. I've been thinking about typing it up for "GoodReads How To..." - but haven't gotten around to it yet. Here's a quickie pic, though.
Using Claimedfor the example, found here on Dystopian Romance.
Pretty fast, once you do it a few time. Save TONS of time wading though each page of a shelf that has 20,000 posts.
Great visual, Lisa Kay! Would you mind also sharing that in our Quick Reference & How-To's folder? Thanks! :D
Steph wrote: "Great visual, Lisa Kay! Would you mind also sharing that in our Quick Reference & How-To's folder? Thanks! :D"✔Done!
Thanks Lisa Kay :D
Another neat trick when using the method in msg 3:In the most recent game of BSB, I found someone who had over 300 books on one of the target shelves and suddenly realized I could narrow it down further to books I had an interest in by using the following method.
Using the same example shelf & person
While looking at Anita's young-adult-paranormal shelf click on "compare books". Then in the upper right corner where the filters are listed, for "their shelves" choose young-adult-paranormal. This will list only books that are also on your shelves. To filter out books you've already read, just go to "your shelves" and choose to-read (or whichever of your shelves you want to look on).
SOS: Serious Overload of Series
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Claimed (other topics)Stars Above (other topics)
Vision in Silver (other topics)
Bone Crossed (other topics)
I've had this happen more than once and I finally realized I could use my browser's FIND option to hunt a bit quicker.
Here's how you can do it too.