What is one thing you would change about Goodreads, to improve your experience? I would get rid of the formats -_-
What is one thing you would change about Goodreads, to improve your experience?
I would get rid of the formats -_-
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Be able to enter giveaways from the phone app
That would come in handy
I believe you can now.
Ok… I did it once, but have to figure out what I did again
I can enter on my phone
I would love to win a giveaway, I have entered hundreds of them but never won.
@Di keep entering. I’ve won a few!
Yes keep it up and you will win
@Kayleigh living in Canada, we are not eligible for as many as those living in the US. ?
You can enter thru the app but only when you clicked a link to get there. No giveaways page like on the computer. ??
@Wilfrieda yes!!!!!
Would love to be able to reject suggestions and not have them clog the lists.
I’d like to be able to sort my to read list randomly on the app. You can only do it on the website.
I’d like better ways to sort my list of already read books.
I agree about getting rid of formats!
What are formats?
@Di When you have to pick Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle or eBook. Its annoying and creates confusion if you arent paying attention.
@Namie I use the app. I don’t think it is on there.
It is. This one I marked from my kindle so it has the right version, but if I had added it from the app and not the kindle it may have picked a different format which would create confusion.
This is really interesting, I have never specified a format. I haven’t even seen the option to do so. Could there be different versions of the app. I use an iPad.
It’ll pick one for you. If you read on your iPad from the kindle app, for example, and you mark the book as currently reading from inside the kindle app it’ll chose kindle format. If you just search, it picks one randomly. I dont know how it chooses.
For example, I read an ARC and used the app to add it, it chose paperback but I had the kindle version. So it left the kindle version on my TBR file.
Namie Book I don’t use the Kindle app very often. I use Kobo.
My Kindle doesn’t do that on Goodreads
I would like half stars. Sometimes a book is worth
3 1/2 stars. I alway round up but I should not have to.
Yes!
This!!!!
YES!!!!
@Di — Makes sense! From all of us authors out there, thank you for rounding up!!
@Joey
@Di me too
@Di yep!!
YES!!!
That’s a good one
I would add half stars. Many times I would love to give higher than a 3 but not a 4.
Lol, we both must have posted at the same time! ?
I closed it. Just one more thing to maintain for me.
How do you keep track of your books???
I have a book buddy app on my phone and wish lists on Amazon. I really don’t worry about it.
I only used it a short time and realized it wasn’t for me.
Make sure you can’t add multiple copies of the novel. It’s hard to know which one to place review on
Yup. The formats. Which I cant stand.
I was just thinking about rhis the other day…..not see when friends like 50 reviews of the same book! That drives me bananas!
I was going through my TBR list and saw books that were on there that I know I’ve read. The stupid format and those reviews really are annoying.
@Julia — Yes, I agree! Such notifications become overwhelming.
@Joey
@Namie I know it’s prob not on the app but on the website there’s a link to check duplicates which shows you when you have something twice (generally one format in read and the other tr)
Namie Book Lower left corner (in my books) find duplicates
I’ll check it out now. Thanks!!! ?
Make it easier to find and add friends
Oh God yes!!!!
Renée FoFornelli — Yes!!! I love this request!
@Joey
Yes!!!
I should screenshot this and send it to goodreads, see if they can work in this list ASAP ?
The different formats is huge. Like does it make a difference if I want to red the hardback or kindle version?
If I enter a giveaway and it is for a different format then the one I have marked to read – then it adds the 2nd format to my to read list causing duplicates.
The half stars though is my biggest wish list.
Half stars would be incredible helpful.
A book is a book. I can’t imagine anyone needs to know which format they read.
Lately it’s been driving me mad! I have my reading challenge, but it’s only counting books I read on my kindle, that it automatically adds. When I manually add them, they don’t go against my challenge, so my numbers are off. I input manually, fiddle with the dates to see if it will show up, now I just don’t bother. I keep a list on my phone of books read and books to read. Much simpler
As long as the dates mark 2018 it’ll add them. I don’t have you on goodreads so i won’t be able to see your challenge, sometimes it’ll show us an error version and someone else will see the correct number. They have tons of kinks to fix
well add me gosh dang it!! ?
I would add a DNF feature.
I added a tag for that so at least I can track them & not try to read them again. Lol
Yes, I did that also.
The rating system. Don’t like should be 0 stars, and I need a 4.5 star.
I would make it simpler to contact their team to ask questions.
@Joey
I don’t know how it works from a mobile device but from a computer, click on your profile pic, click on “help” in the drop down menu, look for “Contact Us” on the right of the screen.
I would like to filter my shelves like I would like to see my to read list minus the self help shelf
I get all tangled up when trying to write a review and preview it…the links evade me~
I don’t know about the mobile apps, but have you ever used the “Settings” tab? I like to see how many pages are in a book, so I have that box checked. One of my book friends likes to number her books so she has that one checked. You can customize it in a lot of different ways. Batch edit is also helpful when you want to move a lot of books. I have a shelf for each month of the current year and in January, I move them all to a “Read in 20xx” shelf. Batch edit sure comes in handy!
Ty! Great info!
I’d like to be able to choose what I see in my feed. I don’t want to see when people add friends or when people like other reviews.
Being able to rate with half stars!
Amen!!
I would like the ability to post reviews with a rich text editor and not have to enter html manually.
Yes! Or Markdown, that would be pretty sweet too…
Search giveaways that are not just book only aka coloring books etc
I didnt think they had those.
@Namie they do!
@Kelley that’s awesome!
I did take screenshots and send them to goodreads, hopefully they do take one or two things into account.
Giveaways on the app just in case I’m on my tablet when I’m traveling.