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Jul 10, 2012 06:25AM
Ooh, The Uninvited looks really good. :)
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I know, I just haven't been doing a suitably extensive publisher search. It's really annoying.
Ok, so I didn't get any of the Bloomsbury titles (region restrictions, sigh...) but I did get The Passage, yay!
Grove/Atlantic has some new titles available for request, for those doing MishMash, it's worth noting that they'll be published on 8 January 2012. http://www.netgalley.com/index2.php?m...
Did anyone request and been approved for Glitz,Beta or The Glimpse? Wanna share? :)
Night Shade Books has new Read Now eARCs! I got these:
I bought The Constantine Affliction last month. It looks promising. :)
Our October BoM is available on NetGalley as a Read Now. Nice timing :)
http://www.netgalley.com/PopupHandler...
Some new stuff from Strange Chemistry:
The Pantomime cover is just putting me off. I really like the cover for The Mad Scientist's Daughter, but I'm not sure if I want to read it. Already have a pile of February publications as well.
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I have 5 approved and 22 feedback on my netgalley (I know it doesn't all show because of the new site)
But when I went to put in my life of pi review I see that only those 5 approved books are there.
What about my previous approved books? Or my old archived reviews? It is ALL gone.
All I have is the recent 5 approved books and the 3 pending.
Nothing else, not 1 archived review or anything?
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I have 5 items. 2 are of the 5 approved ones and the other 3 are ones I never got approved for...
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5 approved and 23 feedback
And by archived it is just Life of Pi...
Anyone else loose everything?
Lol, totally confused right now, but let me go and have a look on the site and see if I can help you out. I don't think I lost anything, but the new system is a bit confusing.
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Oh, ok, that's bad then. Have you emailed the tech team?
I saw this book on NetGalley this morning - I am not a writer myself but I know a lot of you are. It might be of some help :)https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/sho...
I was not approved for THE DARKEST MINDS on NetGalley. Are we allowed to share galleys? Anyone got approved that want to share with me?
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Lu (Sugar & Snark) wrote: "Nope not allowed to share galleys but I can send it to you if you want?"LoL - thank you :)
I am finding the new NetGalley extremely difficult to navigate. Is it just me? Am I just being stupid? I am sure I am missing something . . .
What's the problem? Do you mean searching for books or on your profile? I like the new layout for searching for titles, but I feel that the way they've organised your profile is counter-intuitive and extremely annoying now.
Yes, it is the dashboard that throws me, Lauren. I can't seem to find anything. Just going to leave it for a hour or so and try again. When I am annoyed, I just get impatient . . .
It is very stupid. I don't know if this will help, but here's how I think it works:Clicking on "Dashboard" will just take you to an overview of the latest stuff - requests that have been approved but that you haven't viewed/downloaded; the titles you last downloaded; and 3 or 4 of your pending requests.
If you want to see all your books, you have to click on "Activity" but you can't see them all at once.
You are automatically shown the list of "Newly Approved" titles that you haven't viewed. Since I click through to these on my Dashboard, there's never anything in this list.
You have to use the drop-down menu and change it from Newly Approved to "Currently Pending", "Recently Downloaded" or "Older and Archived Items". "Recently Downloaded" will show you what you've downloaded in the last 6 months. "Older and Archived Items" will give you access to everything else, including your pending items, I think.
If you're reading a book or have read it and want to add your review, click on the "Add to Shelf" button next to the book. When you click on "Shelf' you will see those titles there. I think they made that feature to give you quick access to the books you're currently working on or have finished with, but again, it's counter-intuitive. I mean, I consider ALL the books to be on my "Shelf".
Anyway, I found it easy enough to get used to once I'd played around, but it's still annoying, unfortunately I hope you manage to get it sorted!
Thank you so much for this, Lauren. I will take your notes one paragraph at a time and I am sure I will work it out. Just seems that it worked so much easier before. On the other hand, when I get used to it, I might change my mind.
Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes is available from Mulholland Books:
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/sho...
No problem :) I hope the SA bloggers will all be able to get copies.
Yay! My request for Shining Girls was approved :)
Nice! I'm looking forward to the release.
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But I got
- fangirl squeal!
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Scratch that just got approved :)
I just requested two mysteries/crime thrillers:
Yay! Just got the sequel to vN by Madeline Ashby:
Also:
Diane Setterfiled, author of The Thirteenth Tale, has a ghost story coming out:
I also requested
For fairy tale fans, Prime Books (found under Diamond Book Distributors) has a nice Read Now
I also got this from them:
I got the new book by Mira Grant called Parasite. It was very good . . . first in series.
I've got that one too, going to read it next month.
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