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Connie
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Oct 02, 2008 03:46PM
It's fun to see how excited we all are over this. Are we easy to please people, or what? :)
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Darn it. Went to update my page count (clicking on the gray link which worked for me before) and there was nowhere to enter the page number. Only a section for comments. Anyone else having this problem?*deep breath*
*patience*
Never mind. Just figured it out. But I swear GR switched it on me. Oh, well.
Connie, do you know how to use the page thing? I'm pretty clueless here. :P
Emma: Aren't we funny answering our own posts?!? Another sign of being addicted to goodreads???
Soo true Connie, I'm a major addict!!!! :D
Woo! love the progress bar! It's the bomb ;)
I just noticed that if you look at your friends, you can see what they are reading and what page they are on. Neat!
I just noticed the progress bar too!! Too cool. I noticed first thing when I logged in tonight. I can't wait to what page my friends are on in their book! Maybe this will entice to read faster and not be online so much. Nyaa...that would be way too easy!
Ann I also noticed that when you watch your friends! It is great!!!!I feel like a little kid that got his favourite candy!!!!!!
To answer several people's questions: I noticed one of my books I'm reading says it's way longer than what it is. When I looked, the book has lots of footnotes and a bibliography, both of which I don't read line by line **maybe that's just me** It added a good 50+ pages to my page #.Has anyone checked to see what happens with audiobooks?
Julianne - For the audiobook I'm listening to, it just has a place for me to put a page number, so I'm just not using the progress bar for that book.
I'm feeling a little dumb! The progress bar was there yesterday, I set it for one of the books I'm ready, went back to it last night and can't make any changes/updates. When I click on the book, it brings me to a comment box.What am I missing?
This bothered me FOREVER until I figured it out. You have to click the title twice. So click it..it brings you to the comment box. Then click the name again, you will see directly underneath it allows you to change it.However, I just tried it again, and now it lets me update it by just going to my profile and clicking the title.
Ah ha! Thank you! got it - sheesh...should it be that hard? lol
I didn't see where it posts the number of page the book has :(
Scratch the above post. I found the place where it does.
Okay so I have been a geek and worked it out. It does include every single page in the book, so for the version of dracula I'm reading there are 25 pages at the beginning extra. I'm gona have to add that on every time I want to update my progress. Calculator at the ready ha ha :)
It is going to keep us on our toes! Just another activity on GR to keep us addicted!
Iknow! I have to say I love the progress bar. I explained it to my hubby (who's on GR too) and he just gave me a look like, "There goes my crazy wife again..."
I loved the progress bar to start with, now I hate it. I read 4 or 5 books at a time (1 next to the bed, 1 bag book, 1 computer book and 1 or 2 books I'm trying to finish). I am now feeling constant pressure to update how much I've read before I forget whenever I read a few pages! I shall have to take the bar off.
Petra, I feel your pain. I have 4 books that I'm reading simultaneously at the moment and I feel pressured toward reading them just so that I can update the progress bar. I've made a promise to myself that I'll only update it daily just so I don't go overboard.
Oh yeah, I think once a day is good enough. At first I was going to try to do it twice a day--once in the morning and once in the evening--but even that was a little much for me.
Gone cold turkey. Not doing the progress bar anymore. ;-D I feel freeeeeeee!
THE PROGRESS CRACK BAR.... Sounds like a snack.For OCD freaks like me... I like it...
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Ummm...yeah, it's totally addicting. You feel like the more you can update the better reader you are, right?!?!? Oh, and I saw someone close to my heart who managed in one night to update a book 10 pages apart (in one evening). Looks like an obsession if I ever saw one.
I do love the progress bar but I stopped using it as it was stressing me out thinking I had to update it. Does anyone know if its possible to actually turn it off so it doesn't show at all?
It doesn't stress me out because I am not going to put the computer on jsut to update...but yesterday evening I was thinking...oh I didn't update my book yet and it will be night and and...:-)I just update it when I go on the pc and as the room where that is, is sooo cold... so have only a few times I restart it during the day.
Keeps me a bit off it too....
Jeane,Good thought...make the computer room so uncomfortable you won't linger! And make the reading room nice and cozy...................
That wouldn't work for me - I have a laptop and work on it all the time. Also the weather's (always) lovely. So I need turn it off.
It does work Julianne. My boyfriend is using his laptop and I use his computer in the bedroom, where it is freezing cold. BUT, the fire place is on, so I read there and don't move anymore.Just all move your computer to the most uncomfortable room to stay long!
LOL...this is too funny. I can't really bring myself to use the thing because my books are scattered and I don't want to keep them in a pile by my desk. I have 3 in my bag and one by the couch, one by my bed and another in the bathroom. And I am promising myself I won't bring them all into the living room just to update every day...Promise!*chuckles*
Having a difficult time keeping up with the progress bar on the books. Think I'll pass, Oh who knows!
I adore updating my progress bar but aren't obsessed with it anymore. But almost every time I go on Gr I update it when I think about it. It kinds of make me read more too.
I try too but I have two of the books I'm reading at work. I am reading too many books at once that is my big problem.
