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Finally bothered to get myself on GR, now comes to arduous process of remembering all the books I've ever read and adding them one by one. I'm looking forward to seeing what recommendations it brings up though. Feel free to make your own too. http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8563275-john
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Johnbo posted:Finally bothered to get myself on GR, now comes to arduous process of remembering all the books I've ever read and adding them one by one. I'm looking forward to seeing what recommendations it brings up though. Feel free to make your own too.
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Apr 3, 2012 20:14
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Finally got all my stuff on Goodreads. http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6028923-lyz All I can say is, HOLY BALLS I have a lot of manga. I may have a problem.
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Apr 5, 2012 21:45
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I used the mass import feature to pull everything from Librarything. I miss my tags and stats, but it's nice having people I actually know on a book website. And people I don't! Go ahead and add me if you want to see lots of books vaguely related to urban planning, nature, novels etc and gaze in awe at my 150+ to-read list. My profile is http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7358030-j
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Apr 6, 2012 00:41
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http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8301631-tom Just recently joined as well. My shelves are still pretty sparse but feel free to bask in the quality that's already there.
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Apr 6, 2012 01:24
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I just joined recently too, mainly for the 52 books challenge from the other thread. I'll hopefully get more of the books I've read previously up there eventually. Link here
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Apr 9, 2012 10:38
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Just signed up: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8747201-ectoplasm
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Apr 15, 2012 13:11
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I've recently started using Shelfari as well, so I can post all the reviews I write in more locations. Man, Goodreads is SO much better. Shelfari reviews are robust if they are more than one sentence, and Amazon has so many rules (like you can't post links in your reviews). So glad Goodreads was the first one I found.
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Just signed up as well http://www.goodreads.com/Skellen.
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Apr 21, 2012 02:58
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Ugh, according to my GR I haven't read since Feb 22. Whenever I stop reading for whatever reason it's always really hard for me to start up again. I started reading His Dark Materials today though, and so far it's really really good. REALLY good. If you have any interest in YA you should check it out.
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Apr 22, 2012 09:05
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Just signed up today. I've put up the books I've read this year as part of the 52 books challenge...it's not really representative of me though. My friends have given me ebooks, fantasy and sci fi type stuff I guess. Entertaining enough but not necessarily what I would pick. Anyway! Add me! https://www.goodreads.com/gitsurfer
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Apr 28, 2012 22:54
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Signed up a few weeks ago. I don't think I'll add every book I've ever read, but have gone through those I've read over the last year. Already found a few good books looking through the SA groups. http://www.goodreads.com/Loten
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How do you all upload all your books efficiently? I started scanning stuff in with my phone but after going through just one room I'm already getting tired. I'd like to upload my Amazon purchase history somehow -- it's something like a thousand books over the years, and like 500 ebooks which I can't scan in anyway -- but I can't figure out how.
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Apr 30, 2012 20:10
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There's this if you can get your list into a format they'll accept: http://www.goodreads.com/review/import/ edit: Apparently it also supports urls, so maybe you can get your Amazon history in there directly.
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Apr 30, 2012 20:59
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This is a roundabout way of doing it but it might work. If you create an account on Shelfari, which is owned by Amazon, you can just click a button to import all your Amazon purchases. Then from Shelfari you might be able to make it into a more manageable URL or export it to a list to transfer to Goodreads. Worth a shot anyway.
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I love me some Goodreads, but the interface could sure use some revamping. Plus the site tends to crash whenever they have an author video interview thingy scheduled.
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http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/9188259-jukka Just joined thanks to this thread. I mainly read fantasy and scifi, although I'm trying to broaden my horizons to other genres. Feel free to add me as a friend.
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Yay for reading friends. Here's hoping I can stick with my 'no more physical books' pledge. http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2791846-adam Debating going back and adding in books from when I remember them or just sticking with what I read while active with the site.
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What's with goodreads' users' obsession with young adult novels? I hate that poo poo. Lately I've found myself reading quite a few fantasy novels for some reason. Edit: Oh yeah, I don't know where you guys got those profile links, but here's a link that might work somehow. http://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?i=LTM1OTc5OTkyNjM6MzYz tuyop fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Jun 16, 2012 |
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Jun 16, 2012 00:00
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tuyop posted:What's with goodreads' users' obsession with young adult novels? I hate that poo poo. Lately I've found myself reading quite a few fantasy novels for some reason. Good YA fiction is in no way different to good adult fiction, apart from less sex and swearing. Caveat: Bad YA fiction is loving terrible and is all lots of Goodreads users tend to read.
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Hedrigall posted:Good YA fiction is in no way different to good adult fiction, apart from less sex and swearing. I mentioned this in the YA thread but I read somewhere that in the current market, the only feature that determines whether or not a book is young adult or not is whether or not the protagonist is a teenager. So a lot of books that probably should be classified as adult fiction gets bundled to young adult for just this reason. It's also interesting to note that the classification section seems to be determined by what shelves people put that specific book on so I guess a lot of people classify the books they read by putting it on a 'young adult' fiction shelf.
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I've been a member for a while. It is a great website and my #1 source to find out about great books. Their reviews may have some issues but at least they are better than amazon reviews. Their reading challenges are cool as well. I have a friend participating in them as well so tons of motivation to complete mine. My profile (it isn't much, unfortunately): http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7514480-applesmack
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I joined today, and added only the books that I either knew for certain i had read this year, or that my amazon buying history ensured me I had in fact read despite my not being sure when exactly I read them. Goodreads has helped me come to the conclusion that my reading habits this year have been pretty much pathetic. I'm somewhere in the region of 15 books since January, which is shockingly low for me. The real question is, what have I been doing with all my time!?
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http://www.goodreads.com/shivan000 I'm usually too lazy to give books a proper review.
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http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3547029-ryan Haven't used any of the social features of Goodreads yet, mostly just been lazily tracking what I read when I remember to.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:How do you all upload all your books efficiently? I started scanning stuff in with my phone but after going through just one room I'm already getting tired. I'd like to upload my Amazon purchase history somehow -- it's something like a thousand books over the years, and like 500 ebooks which I can't scan in anyway -- but I can't figure out how. You just gotta do it a little bit at a time, especially as you add to your library. Thankfully I began cataloguing when I only had a few hundred and so have largely kept up with it as I go. Quick solutions might include using librarything's ecat reader and then using their export feature to upload your list of books to whichever site you prefer best.
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Joined Goodreads about a week or so ago and added the last 100 books I can remember reading. Please add me as friend because apparently only three people across all my social networks use this thing: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/10626027-bob-mackey
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The idea of rating every book I've ever read is kind of hilarious. Like what the hell am I going to give Walter the Farting Dog or all those Goosebumps choose-your-own-adventure books? So yeah I don't bother, I just try to rate anything I've read with a critical eye. Kind of an arbitrary criterion but whatever. I find that keeping track of what page I'm on is a nice motivator to keep reading. If I go a couple of days without making any real progress I'll hunker down and knock out another section just so I can raise that drat number. 
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Criminal Minded posted:[...]Walter the Farting Dog or all those Goosebumps choose-your-own-adventure books[...]
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Criminal Minded posted:The idea of rating every book I've ever read is kind of hilarious. Like what the hell am I going to give Walter the Farting Dog or all those Goosebumps choose-your-own-adventure books? So yeah I don't bother, I just try to rate anything I've read with a critical eye. Kind of an arbitrary criterion but whatever. I review everything because I have pretty eclectic tastes and will read anything from a trashy romance novel to a non fiction book about widespread illegal antiquities purchases amongst the largest museums in North America. However, I still want to remember if I really liked that trashy romance novel compared to other ones I've read. You know what I don't get, why are there so many reviews with completely extraneous images in them?? I mean at first I thought, 'well, not many people like to read these days, you gotta hook 'em in with pictures'. Then I remembered I'm on a reading site. Where else can you expect people to read if not on an entire site about keeping track of what you're reading?? I find all the lolcatz-esque pictures in reviews to be really annoying.
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I signed on librarything and it actually rules. The goodreads looks like a cheapish site full of ads but for some reason it has lot more users than librarything... 
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Joined Goodreads earlier today, my profile is here: http://www.goodreads.com/nicemarmot Feel free to add as me as a friend. I've joined the Goon Group that was posted earlier in the thread. With the exception of books I've read recently, my shelves are barren at the moment. I'm trying to work up the motivation to add stuff I've read in the past. For now I'm rating books as I read them and I plan on writing a short review of the books I complete. As for preferred genres, they are non fiction, horror, politics, and science fiction. I'm open to reading anything though. Cattywampus fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Jul 11, 2012 |
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Maksamakkara posted:I signed on librarything and it actually rules. The goodreads looks like a cheapish site full of ads but for some reason it has lot more users than librarything... The catch-22 of the account fee. It pays for staff to develop the site and get rid of a lot of ads, but it drives off some users. Even if its only after 200 books, which I dare say most people don't need to worry about, it was still a turn off for a lot of people when they saw it. But yeah, I remember when they were coming out the big difference was that goodreads was completely free, and its color scheme was green instead of blehge/beige. I also remember that librarything was slower to establish a presence on facebook, whereas goodreads was pretty quick to set up a facebook application so people could catalogue through there, which definitely gave it a boost in userbase. I tried keeping up my catalogue on both for awhile but its just way easier to tag and catalogue on LibraryThing, and the site continued to improve in ways I felt good reads didn't.
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Yiggy posted:The catch-22 of the account fee. It pays for staff to develop the site and get rid of a lot of ads, but it drives off some users. Even if its only after 200 books, which I dare say most people don't need to worry about, it was still a turn off for a lot of people when they saw it. But yeah, I remember when they were coming out the big difference was that goodreads was completely free, and its color scheme was green instead of blehge/beige. I also remember that librarything was slower to establish a presence on facebook, whereas goodreads was pretty quick to set up a facebook application so people could catalogue through there, which definitely gave it a boost in userbase. I tried keeping up my catalogue on both for awhile but its just way easier to tag and catalogue on LibraryThing, and the site continued to improve in ways I felt good reads didn't. So what are the limitations of goodreads exactly? It seems perfect for what it is, and I really like the iOS app, what more could I need?
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Yiggy posted:The catch-22 of the account fee. It pays for staff to develop the site and get rid of a lot of ads, but it drives off some users. Even if its only after 200 books, which I dare say most people don't need to worry about, it was still a turn off for a lot of people when they saw it. But yeah, I remember when they were coming out the big difference was that goodreads was completely free, and its color scheme was green instead of blehge/beige. I also remember that librarything was slower to establish a presence on facebook, whereas goodreads was pretty quick to set up a facebook application so people could catalogue through there, which definitely gave it a boost in userbase. I tried keeping up my catalogue on both for awhile but its just way easier to tag and catalogue on LibraryThing, and the site continued to improve in ways I felt good reads didn't. Yeah, yeah. I'd like to still say to those unaware that the account fee is actually up to user to decide. So as long as the user at least pays 1 dollar (one can of course give more than the default 20 dollars too), he will get the unlimited lifetime account. Still, after you have reached the free 200 books you most likely already like the site so much that you have no problem paying them at least 20 dollars.
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The problem with LibraryThing, as I think I mentioned earlier in the thread, is that it's just ugly.
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prolecat posted:The problem with LibraryThing, as I think I mentioned earlier in the thread, is that it's just ugly. I think it's the other way around; Goodreads is ugly as poo poo while librarything is nice, organized, laid out neat. The only reason I don't use it anymore is I hit that 200 mark and haven't wanted to pay when I've already got GR, and now I've got so many more books since then that I don't want to go back and add them all if I do pay. GR has the much better social aspect, though, I'll give them that.
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GR also has a much better selection of self-published eBooks about vampires in it's freebie section, too.
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