“Recommendations” Feature: For a book already on someone's TBR shelf.

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

“Recommendations” Feature: For a book already on someone's TBR shelf.

Several people have complained that now, when trying to recommend a book to someone that already has it on their to-read shelf, it will not allow them to do so. This is good, as a reader doesn't get multiple recs for the same book by multiple people, but frustrating for someone who really wants a second someone to try the book. Especially if the second someone they are trying to make a rec to has thousands of TBR books.

As an alternative, you can hyperlink to their comment thread on the book! This will generate a notice, and they will be able to respond.

See the example below (Screen #1), in which I am trying to recommend The Bride and the Beast, by Teresa Medeiros to one of our RLftCI moderators, Heather. By the red arrow, and below her name, it says “marked-as-to-read”. If you click on this (it will become underlined), it will hyperlink you to her comments thread on the book (Screen #2). Be patient, as it is a slower response than to other links!

Screen #1


Hyperlinks to: (which will generate a notification to her after you post a comment!)

Screen #2

[Heather]

This is great. It will certainly help me!

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

[Lina]

Good to know :-)