Jayson’s Reviews > Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire > Status Update

I feel your pain, bro.

Ohno that sucks :( that would bother me so much

Paul wrote: "I feel your pain, bro."

Thanks, Paul. I appreciate it :)

Tana △⃒⃘ ⚯͛ wrote: "Ohno that sucks :( that would bother me so much"

It's one of those things where I'm coming to terms with it. I believe I've passed through three of the five stages of grief: denial, anger and bargaining (aka Goodreads tech support). Now I've got depression and acceptance left to power through. I suppose I'll always be annoyed, but hopefully it's something I can learn to live with.

haha The cycle is complete.

ravInous wrote: "haha The cycle is complete."

Possibly I'm missing something... which/what cycle?

Glitchreads also loves to switch the order of when I read books on my goodreads challenge so that if I read like three books in one day it will switch them around. Which I know isn’t that big of a deal but it drives me nuts. It’s even worse when I read a series and good reads will make it seem like I read book 1, 3, and then 2.

♡ Dakota ♡ wrote: "Glitchreads also loves to switch the order of when I read books on my goodreads challenge so that if I read like three books in one day it will switch them around. Which I know isn’t that big of a ..."

Yes, that happens to me too. It's a real flaw that they don't timestamp when you finish a book in increments more precise than a calendar day... I think it might default sort alphabetically or something. It definitely weirds up your "Year in Books" page too, in addition to the challenge page. I read the first and second Harry Potter books on the same day years ago, and still it bugs me to this day that they're always in inverted order. 😒

Yeah, that irks me, too.

Paul wrote: "Yeah, that irks me, too."

Goodreads glitches are the mutual enemy that unites all users.

I haaaate it when GR does that!! I sometimes have read the ebook and paperback copy of a book and when it switches editions it changes all my read dates and my review and it messes everything up. So then I have to delete both the editions from my shelf and add them both back again and it works but it's a pain to have to do.

I can feel your pain😔 lt happens a lot while reading graphic novels
GR needs to do something
If l read more than 1 book it changes the order in which l completed them
Maybe for them its minor but someone who loves order and organization it is infuriating 😒

Mrinmayi wrote: "I can feel your pain😔 lt happens a lot while reading graphic novels
GR needs to do something
If l read more than 1 book it changes the order in which l completed them"

OMG YES!! Being a comic reader and a perfectionist bordering on OCD there is nothing more annoying than finishing multiple comics on the same day and then GR changes the order I finished reading them in on my shelf. It's SO ANNOYING. Which is why I never finish 2 comics in a day now. Because I like to log things accurately on GR.

Also, GR knows that this is a problem. When I first came across the issue in 2018 I emailed them thoroughly about it and we had a lot of back and forth and basically they never fixed the issue even though they said they would take it up with their development team or whatever.

I have a question for you Jayson and I’m sorry to ask lol but I couldn’t find it when doing a google search but I been wanting to reread some books but I haven’t because I don’t want my goodreads year in books to get messed up. So let’s say I want to reread a book I read in 2018 but change the dates to the current time I read it in 2020 so that I can add it to my reading challenge and 2020 year in books. If I do that will it take the book out of 2018 year in books making it seem like I never read the book? And do the same thing to my reading challenge? If you don’t know the answer it’s fine I just thought I ask since you reread books and I thought u might know.

Hey Dakota I know the answer!
If you do change the date like that it will take the book out of your 2018 reading challenge yes.
So what you have to do is just go to the book and you know where it usually has the “want to read” button in this case it will say “read” because you already read it in 2018. Click on the arrow so you can see the drop down menu of all your shelves and then click “currently reading” and it will automatically register that you’re rereading the book. This way it’ll retain the 2018 reading dates and add new 2020 reading dates so it’ll count towards both year’s reading challenge.
Sorry if that was confusing. If you have any qs I’d be happy to help you through it!👏🏻

@kadi P
Exactly!!! While my rational side says its okay ...the perfrctionist side keeps reminding me how its looking on my GR bookshelf 😕🙁📚
It gets irritating after sometime
I prefer keeping the shelf organized but GR is like that annoying toddler who messes with things just because it can🤷🏽‍♀️

@Kadi thank you Kadi for answering my question!

Ha! it's even worse when one has different editions. :)

Kadi wrote: "I haaaate it when GR does that!! I sometimes have read the ebook and paperback copy of a book and when it switches editions it changes all my read dates and my review and it messes everything up. S..."

Sorry to hear that, Kadi. I've never had that particular glitch... or maybe I have and I just don't know it. I'll have to check the read dates on reviews for multiple editions. Good to know that I'm not the only one who's suffered the edition switch glitch.

I'll tell you, if I had known that Goodreads would spontaneously switch editions on you and not allow you to switch them back, I wouldn't even have written a second review, just so my covers wouldn't be mismatched.

Mrinmayi wrote: "I can feel your pain😔 lt happens a lot while reading graphic novels
GR needs to do something
If l read more than 1 book it changes the order in which l completed them
Maybe for them its minor but..."

Yeah, that one happens to me a lot too. I've come to accept that issue a long time ago. Like you said, it's minor, but it gives me hope that one day I'll come to accept and not be bothered by this issue I'm having now, or at least not as much.. Though, I am far more annoyed by mismatched covers simply because you see them all the time.

Kadi wrote: "OMG YES!! Being a comic reader and a perfectionist bordering on OCD there is nothing more annoying than finishing multiple comics on the same day and then GR changes the order I finished reading th..."

Yes, I know exactly this feeling. It's one of the reasons why I don't really like to read single issue comics. Though, I make a point of not starting another book until my review is finished for the last one, and those often take up the rest of the day anyway. Lol. So, it's not so much a problem for me as others.

Also, I've been through the whole back and forth with the Goodreads support team too. I think I might have six or seven open cases, including this one. Essentially you e-mail them a question, they pretend it's something different and reply some common solution to something else, then you send them another email to restate the problem, then they acknowledge that it is a problem and "pass it along" to their development team with "high priority" status. "High priority" basically means nothing. They've never fixed a single issue I've brought to their attention, and upon following up on them, I've forced them to admit my issues were dropped completely, shortly after I sent them.

Kadi wrote: "Hey Dakota I know the answer!
If you do change the date like that it will take the book out of your 2018 reading challenge yes.
So what you have to do is just go to the book and you know where it u..."

♡ Dakota ♡ wrote: "@Kadi thank you Kadi for answering my question!"

The only thing I'll add to Kadi's answer is that if you want to write a separate review for your re-read you'll have to choose a different edition of the book. In which case, you'd follow the same steps, but with a different edition than your first read. Though, as it pertains to my status update, this runs the risk of spontaneous switching to a different edition you can't switch back from.

@Jay do I sense... a little bit of tension there?🤭😂 sounds like you’re ready to have a little fisticuffs with the GR response team😂
But I get what you mean because I’ve been through the whole back and forth thing with them at least 3 times since starting my account, admittedly not as many as you but still the same level of annoying.

And yeah same that’s why I log everything as collected vols even though I read all comics as single issues.

It’s funny we’re talking about this because I literally had this problem today. I was looking at one of the books I’m currently reading and it turns out it’s logged as hardcover when it should be kindle so I go to change it. Then it says the kindle edition is already on my TBR shelf and I can’t switch to that edition. So thinking “nothing can be simple with GR CAN IIIIIIT?!?!?” (I was ready to rage) I had to go to my shelf, delete the kindle version from it, then go back to the book and switch it from hardcover to the kindle edition. It worked in the end it’s just the small issues that annoy me🤦🏻‍♀️

But why can’t you fix your annoying different edition review problem? You should try this: copy paste both reviews in HTML form onto a separate word doc (or something similar) then screenshot (or take not) of the start/end read dates for both editions. Then delete both editions from your shelf. Theeeen readd them both back to your shelf, edit the start/end dates so they’re the same as when you originally read them, then add the reviews back into the correct edition. As long as the spontaneous switch thing doesn’t happen again it should be fine! Sounds like a lot of effort but I’ve done it before and it’ll only take like 10 mins if you’re at a laptop.

Mrinmayi wrote: "@kadi P
Exactly!!! While my rational side says its okay ...the perfrctionist side keeps reminding me how its looking on my GR bookshelf 😕🙁📚
It gets irritating after sometime
I prefer keeping the s..."

I often have clashes between my rational side and my perfectionist side. My rational side says that matching covers don't matter, and that no one's ever going to see my audiobooks lined up in a row to know they don't match. But my perfectionist side needles at me that everything has to be right and consistent, even if no one knows it but me. Also, I agree, it often seems that Goodreads likes to cause trouble just for the sake of it. It's like they're reading my mind to see what would most annoy me. 😒

carol. wrote: "Ha! it's even worse when one has different editions. :)"

Absolutely. I always want my Goodreads shelf to be the exact books I read. Now it can't be, which is an additional itch I can never scratch.

It wouldn't bother me nearly as much if they switched my audiobook to another audiobook, but they switched it to a paperback! I guess I should count myself lucky they didn't switch it to some foreign language edition. That would be the absolute worst.

I know it´s got nothing to do with your note, but... I´ve been asking myself since a v long time ago, how do you do to insert some image into your review or notes in GR? Hahaha, I´m probably too blind to have noticed the trick! thnx for the help btw! :D

Kadi wrote: "@Jay do I sense... a little bit of tension there?🤭😂 sounds like you’re ready to have a little fisticuffs with the GR response team😂
But I get what you mean because I’ve been through the whole back ..."

Yeah, I'll only really read single issues if they're not included in the trade, for completist sake. Otherwise, all my reviews are done in volumes, regardless of whether I read them in singles or not.

As to why I don't just delete the book and add it again, I could very well do that, but I'd lose all the comments and likes and status updates, and comments on those status updates, and keeping all that interaction associated with the reading experience is very important to me. If it were just some review I wrote that no one commented on, or liked or had no status updates, then I'd have no problem starting from scratch. But, I like to keep my reviews as much a log of the reading experience as it is a log of books I've read.

I'll admit, this whole issue has been so annoying to me that I've been seriously tempted to nuke the whole thing. Though, starting from zero, to me at least, would be reverting the review to an empty shell, and tantamount to it losing its soul, if you get what I'm saying.

Mía wrote: "I know it´s got nothing to do with your note, but... I´ve been asking myself since a v long time ago, how do you do to insert some image into your review or notes in GR? Hahaha, I´m probably too bl..."

No problem. There is a link above the comment box labeled "some html is ok," or in review edit pages it's called "formatting tips." Click on that and you'll get a cheat sheet list of html codes. Go to the one that says image and copy everything from the < to the />. Paste it in the comment box and replace everything between the quotation marks with your image url, which can be a jpg or a gif or whatever, so long as it has a file extension at the end. Don't worry about the width or height or description parts of it. Those can just be deleted unless you want to shrink, stretch or distort your image. Also, always hit the preview link next to the post button to see whether you got the code correct. Hope that helps. Let me know if you need any more info or if you're having problems with it :)

@Jay oh yeah! I didn’t think about all the comments and stuff!! That would be terrible if you lost all that! I like to look back at all those interactions too over the years so it’s important to keep. I didn’t think of it because the one time I had to do this delete and readd to my shelf thing it was for this book that I’d read at least 5 times in different formats and my review was old on a not so popular book so basically no one had interacted with it. I know it’s pretty much a dead end but have you contacted the support team about this issue anyway?

Kadi wrote: "@Jay oh yeah! I didn’t think about all the comments and stuff!! That would be terrible if you lost all that! I like to look back at all those interactions too over the years so it’s important to ke..."

Oh yes, in fact, I've documented my initial interaction with the support team for this issue in this other status update: https://www.goodreads.com/user_status.... Once in a while I'll have a streak of book status updates just complaining about stuff. lol.

@ Jayson l can relate to you so much!! Especially the matching covers situation
Usually while scrolling through the shelf suddenly you see a mismatched book and it's just so irritating
Like you said WE know it is not organized
Most people don't feel the same but when you have a particular way of organizing and it does not work that way the feeling is the worst 😑😔

@ Jayson
You were right about the comments and interactions
As a reader not just reading but also discussing the book enhances the reading experience
And to be frank even though GR has many issues l feel it is a platform which helped connecting readers
Don't know about you guys but l personally don't know many people who are book lovers
So GR did that right.....but definitely it needs to improve itself
Hopefully next time we 'update' GR atleast some of our problems will be fixed *fingers crossed *

I completely understand the OCD thing. When Del Rey books released the omnibus handcover containing the first 3 books of Eddings Belgariad was all stoked for the volume with books 4 and 5...they never released it, so I have the earlier SF Book Club volume with those two shelved next to my original first edition mass market paperbacks of the whole series. Looks really dippy on a shelf...sigh.

Mrinmayi wrote: "@ Jayson l can relate to you so much!! Especially the matching covers situation
Usually while scrolling through the shelf suddenly you see a mismatched book and it's just so irritating
Like you s..."

Yeah, it's a thing where nobody else will ever care. At most they might pause and think, "oh, they shelved the wrong edition," but even in that worst case scenario no one cares. The thing that bothers me the most is that the book's an audiobook, but it's shelved as a paperback. In the broad scheme of things this doesn't matter at all, but it's all about personal peace of mind to me. Like if you have a sore thumb, no one else will care or even notice, but it's your thumb, and so it's personally aggrieving to you no matter how you try to ignore it.

xD

Mrinmayi wrote: "@ Jayson
You were right about the comments and interactions
As a reader not just reading but also discussing the book enhances the reading experience
And to be frank even though GR has many issues..."

On the whole, the pros with Goodreads far outweighs the cons. I think I may have mentioned before in this tread that if you want to share reviews and discuss books with other bookish people, it's really the only place to be. I've certainly broadened and altered my view of books from comment and discussion. I really can't see reading books without Goodreads now, which make the annoying things stand out all the more.

The problem with Goodreads updates is they usually front-load them at the start of the year. You know, that period of two or three days where status updates are disabled and people who haven't been through it before start to freak out. So, at best, changes might come next January. The problem is that usually those changes are things no one asked for, like circular profile pictures and giant Friend/Unfriend buttons. But, as you say, fingers-crossed that at least some annoyances will be fixed.

Gary wrote: "I completely understand the OCD thing. When Del Rey books released the omnibus handcover containing the first 3 books of Eddings Belgariad was all stoked for the volume with books 4 and 5...they ne..."

Differently sized editions of books is another one of my big pet peeves. With physical books, I can forgive changing cover art styles or spine fonts and things if the books stay the same size. But when sizes change, or you can't get the same edition for every book in a series, it just looks like broken teeth or a dilapidated row of fence pickets on my shelves. Which is a reason why, when I can, I make it a habit of buying books in sets once all of them have come out.

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Glad you like it :)

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Kumusta :)

@Jay when I click on your link I can’t see any text in the update just a big picture of Kara shooting laser eyes😂 talking about GR having issues all the time🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ the goodreads app is letting me down😭 although this isn’t a new issue it happens with every update that includes a GIF/picture

Kadi wrote: "@Jay when I click on your link I can’t see any text in the update just a big picture of Kara shooting laser eyes😂 talking about GR having issues all the time🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ the goodreads app is letting ..."

Ah, I hadn't known about that, since I don't really use the app for more than scanning in books. At least the pic accurately illustrates my mood at the time, which was absolutely my intention. lol. I'll just copy the text here then:

"I'm kinda pissed off right now. I sent an e-mail to Goodreads support, outlining an issue with the site. Days later, I get a reply: a copy-and-paste answer to a question I did not ask. In other words, this reply did not address the problem I had, but a problem they wish I had. What's the point of a user support e-mail when e-mails won't be read!!"

The app has so many issues that don’t come up with the full version. Super annoying but as you said, I can’t imagine reading without goodreads anymore. It enhances the reading to discuss and share with like minded bookish people

Annie wrote: "The app has so many issues that don’t come up with the full version. Super annoying but as you said, I can’t imagine reading without goodreads anymore. It enhances the reading to discuss and share ..."

Yes, glitches may annoy me (glitches may really annoy me), and I may curse and scream and shake my fist about them, but I can learn to live with it if the trade-off is being able to talk about books with people who actually enjoy books too. That's the real value to the site, which I've sadly only taken advantage of in the past few years.

Aww no! I hate it when goodreads glitches like that. =( Maybe it will change back again?

Virginia Ronan wrote: "Aww no! I hate it when goodreads glitches like that. =( Maybe it will change back again?"

Well, I'm always holding out hope for miracles. Though, I think there's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube for this. Since it happened, I've heard from a few people who experienced the same thing, but I've never heard a single instance where it reversed. I do appreciate the optimism and support :)

'GLITCHREADS' GAHAH

Roel ✿ wrote: "'GLITCHREADS' GAHAH"

It's a more accurate name. Not all reads are good, but glitches are guaranteed 😁👍

You know what, I'm going to change my GoodReads desktop shortcut name to GlitchReads. Beautiful. Inspirational.

Roel ✿ wrote: "You know what, I'm going to change my GoodReads desktop shortcut name to GlitchReads. Beautiful. Inspirational."

I'm honored. Happy to have provided the inspiration 😁👍

Annie wrote: "The app has so many issues that don’t come up with the full version. Super annoying but as you said, I can’t imagine reading without goodreads anymore. It enhances the reading to discuss and share ..."

I love how this is a thing everyone in the community accepts though😂 Like we all know and accept that GR has way too many problems and we complain about it whenever we're given the opportunity to but no one wants to give it up because for all its problems this is where the heart of the community is at and discussing books in groups and review/status comments enhances the reading experience.