I AM ACTUALLY SO HAPPY????? Okay, i am kind of sad because i have to change the formatting of how i start reviews, BUT I AM ACTUALLY SO GIDDY RN BECAUSE I JUST GAVE MY FIRST 4.5 STAR RATINGGGGG
I would already leave a half star in my reviews so changing the overall star rating was easy tbh. Such a minor thing to do but happy to do it because I like to keep track of how I rate things
I just finished the Astarion book that came out a little while ago and was hoping to rate it. Does anyone know how long it's going to be temporarily unavailable or like an average amount of time goodreads keeps people from reviewing? I've also heard that reviews of the book being deleted. It just feels shady as readers should be allowed to honestly review a book that they liked or disliked without publishers/WOTC/the author trying to hide it.
Or am I the Chosen One to not get them? :-D
Is it only available on the mobile app?
A video was posted on Goodreads’ TikTok, not sure if it was also announced elsewhere. FINALLY.
Have I missed something, is this totally legitimate and I'm just barking up the wrong tree?
This morning I noticed that a friend who writes very few but very good reviews, had 211 likes within a very short time. So I checked them out and got chatgpt to analyse them. 62% of the likes are from private profiles, 95% of those profiles have under 10 books, 21.5% had 0 books 0 reviews. Lots of them had similar names Sean, Shawn, Shauna, Sharon, Shane; multiple Sheilas, Shanes, Danis, and similar pairs and the account IDs were very close to each other, like they had been made at the same time.
Additionally there were quite a few profiles set up in 2024 that had come on to GR very infrequently and only to like this person's reviews and sometimes one other person's just once.
This isn't an author and the book was non-fiction so it's not some kind of marketing scheme.
I really wanna vote this time!
I guess we all agree that it seems very likely the heritage challenge will be for books by native authors. I‘m mostly using libby so would love to already put some books on hold. Any books by native authors you think will be on the list?
My guesses are Tommy Orange and Stephen Graham Jones for sure. But I‘d love to hear more suggestions/ideas
Here's the thread where you can post your Goodreads profile so people can add you as friends. Just post a link to your profile or your username in the comments!
Ok, so I did some experimenting and found the problem and the solution.
When you mark a book as "read" or "unread" on your Kindle it WILL MOVE IT TO OR FROM YOUR READ SHELF IN GOODREADS.
There may be a reason you have a book marked as read and want to mark it as unread - maybe you want to re-read it again, or maybe you want to see the locator bar under the title to see where the last page read is, for whatever reason you need to be very careful if you have Goodreads and your Kindles linked up because all you have to do is mark a book as unread - and whatever read dates, shelves - whatever - that book in Goodreads will be gone.
Similarily, if you have a book that you mark as "Read" it will move to the "read" shelf on Goodreads - it will not have a read date included but it will show a read count of 1 and no listed start or finish date.
So to get around this you must put your kindle on airplane mode - THEN mark your book as "Read or Unread" if you DO NOT want Goodreads to register it as read or unread. Then once you do that - you can put it back on wifi and the mark stays or goes but the Goodreads shelves do not update.
I have gone through the Kindle logs that you get when you search ";dm" (no quotes but just showing that this is what you type in the search bar at the top and hit enter and then you will get logs that show a ton of your Kindle's behind the scenes actions. Beware though because they are VERY verbose and can go very big - like 30MB big. I reset my Kindles last night and just today the logs are at 30MB. Each instance of creating a log creates a new log - it won't remove the old logs, so doing this a bunch of times without removing or deleting the old logs will fill up your Kindle quick. If you want to read the logs you can find them under your Documents folder you can get them and read them on your Kindle or do what I did - pulled them off via USB cord and uploaded them to ChatGPT to analyse for me.
So - long story short - Don't mark your books as "Read" or "Unread" on a Kindle connected to Goodreads unless you have enabled wifi.
Im sure there is some kind of exception to why you want to do it on wifi, but if you just manually move a book from read to currently reading in the menu for your Goodreads profile, that's better. It will still update the book to read when you finish it.
Yesterday I finished a book and noticed I logged 1,218 books as Read. I remember the specific number because it stood out to me since my sister’s birthday is on December 18. By the end of the day the number dropped to 1,216. I thought it was strange but when I woke up this morning it now dropped to 1,213. Anyone know what might be happening?
Do you think “I who have never known men” will be on one of the mystery challenges?
I read the Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings, and it really was not for me at all (.5 of a star), but pushed myself through it to at least click the read button and unlock my spellbound award. Well GoodReads is glitching and will not acknowledge that I read it to give my little bookmark. The witches are after me!
There are 800+ editions and I can’t find it 😭😭
I usually check each month the books listed in the [Time Travel New Releases] section but the 6months beginning of this year always slipped my mind to check.
But I am here to see if anyone knows the books that were shown there in any of those months? But if I could know the Time Travel books listed in February specifically I could be fine.
Any help be appreciated! Thank you!