With a "didn't finish" bookshelf do you mark it as read, to-read, or currently reading?

[Taylor]

There have been a few books that I've read half of this year but didn't like enough to finish. I'd like to have a "Didn't finish" shelf on here, but I'm not sure what I should mark the books as, since I can't not choose one of the three options.

Do you think it really counts as read if you didn't finish it? I don't want it going towards my 2012 challenge 'cause it feels like it doesn't count to me.

Just curious on what y'all do.

[Sara ♥]

You can make your "didnt-finish" shelf exclusive, which will mean that you'd pick that instead of the three other options.

On your "My Books" page, next to "bookshelves", click "(edit)". If you haven't already created your "didnt-finish" shelf, you can do that at the bottom. Then scroll down to that shelf and click the "exclusive" box (4th column). Now it will act just like another option to choose instead of read/currently-reading/to-read!

I have an "abandoned" shelf, which is the term I settled on instead of "didnt-finish", but call it whatever you like!

[Taylor]

Oooh! Thanks so much, that's been bugging me for a long while. Mine is also called 'abandoned', but I was trying to make everything as clear as possible. :) Thanks again.

[Sara ♥]

No problem! I didn't know about exclusive shelves for a long time... or rather, I'd seen the option, and didn't "get" what it did. Love it though!

I just started using the "sticky" option. That keeps the shelf at the top, out of alphabetical order. I'm doing a reading challenge right now, so I have my 2012 and my challenge-summer-2012 shelves set as sticky, so I don't have to scroll down to find them.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

This sort of question belongs in the Feedback group, not Librarians.