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Add a Quote (and thus, make it appear under your review…) Also, How to Edit a Quote, if you are a GR Librarian
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My mistake. If you are a GR's Librarian, you do NOT need to add a quote that needs editing to your "likes". I corrected the above step.
I just saw a quote I would have liked to add but words were misspelled. I like that I can correct them now. Thanks Lisa Kay!
Phooey. I tried to edit a quote because of letters that ought to be capitalized but aren't and it said that only super librarians can edit quotes with more than 500 likes.But thanks for this tutorial, Lisa Kay. Didn't know about it.
Sure, Carolyn! I don't like to add quotes that have misspellings and no punctuation, either.
Niq wrote: "...it said that only super librarians can edit quotes with more than 500 likes..."Well, that's good to know. I'll add that to the info. Thanks, Niq! ☺
Yeah. I don't know how one goes about getting the training for that. Some (most!) of the stuff in the GR Librarian Group goes over my head. Woosh! A lot of those folks have a doctorate in Library Sciences. Gheez!
This is great Lisa Kay, thanks! Now I can add my quotes from the kindle if someone hasn't already.
◈ Go to your menu bar and click on the ▾ to drop down the menu under Explore
(Screen #1).
◈ Click on the green lettered “quotes” under “fun” (which is in bold).
◈ Check to make sure the quote in NOT already in GoodReads’ database. At Screen #2,
type in the title of the book, and for good measure, the name of the author.
Then click “search” button.
◈ As shown in Screen #3, scroll down and review all the quotes for that book
and click “like” button.
◈ GoodReads will prompt you to add to Facebook or Twitter, unless you
have turned this off.
◈ If the name of the book does NOT appear beside the author’s name, it will NOT
appear on your review. To “edit” this instead of adding another quote, see info
right before Screen #13, under SPECIAL NOTE ON EDITING: near the
end of these instructions.
◈ In Screen #4, I chose a book to use as an example --
-- The Greek Tycoon's Unwilling Wife, by Kate Walker -- to show how to add a quote
to GoodReads database. As you can see, GRs still picked up the word “Kate.”
◈ As shown in Screen #5, click the green lettered “ add a quote”.
◈ Screen #6 shows you that the title and author defaulted into the quote field.
You can delete that. If you had typed in a quote instead, that would have defaulted.
Notice that the field for the “book (optional)” field has NOT yet appeared.
◈ At Screen #7, type in your quote.
◈ You do NOT need to put in quotation marks at the beginning and end, but you do
for in-between dialogue.
◈ I would strongly suggest you type in the desired quote in some
word processing program first, as there is no spell or grammer check.
◈ After you type in the author’s name, it will appear in yellow highlight.
Selecting this will cause …(continues after Screen #7)
◈ … the “ book (optional)” field to appear NOW as displayed in Screen #8.
◈ Using the ▾ by the “book (optional)” field indicated by the red arrow on
Screen #8, GRs will give you a list of the author’s books.
If your computer is slow, give it some time.
◈ Highlight in blue and select (by left mouse clicking) the appropriate title as
shown on Screen 9.
◈ Per Screen #10, make sure the correct book title came in (blue arrow) and add
an appropriate tag (orange arrow), if desired, and click the “save” button (red arrow).
◈ You screen should look like Screen #11, with a yellow confirmation message.
◈ If you notice an error, click on the tiny little word (edit) (Screen #11,
red arrow) and it will hyperlink you to the edit screen. Notice the book should
appear over to the right (green arrow).
◈ Check out your review! Screen #12 shows you that the quote I added appears
under my review of the same book.
SPECIAL NOTE ON EDITING:
◈ Use the Edit Quote screen to add a book title to the quote, which will
make it appear under your review.
◈ If you are NOT a librarian, but know one (indicated on their profile page,
under their avatar), ask them if they can add the book title tag.
◈ If you notice an error on a quote someone else entered, and you are a
GRs Librarian, you can correct it (without adding it to your “likes,”)
by clicking on the hyperlink that tells you the number of people who
liked the quote. Only Super Librarians can edit quotes with
more than 500 “likes.”
◈ Go in and edit it by this link to the Edit Quote screen showning in next (Screen #13).
◈ Use discretion!
◈ Be sure to click the “save” button.