07-02-2013, 02:17 PM | #31 |
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You mean I'm in a fake group?!?!
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07-02-2013, 02:18 PM | #32 |
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07-02-2013, 02:48 PM | #33 |
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I just had a Disney moment. "I'm a real boy group!"
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07-02-2013, 03:03 PM | #34 | |
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07-02-2013, 03:18 PM | #35 | |
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07-02-2013, 03:30 PM | #36 | |
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07-05-2013, 11:24 PM | #37 | |
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Here are the things you can do, if you want: Log the books you read--whichever you want to log. Rate them, review them if you want. You can join a group of people who enjoy the same authors/genres/whatever you like and do group reads if you like. Friend people. Those people will read, rate, and review books and you can decide whether you want to read the books they've enjoyed. Get automated or personal recommendations. Recommend books to friends if you think they'll enjoy them. Find out about new releases from authors you enjoy. Enter contests to win free copies of books that sound interesting. Use the cataloging data to find out what books are in what series in what order, including short stories/novellas. Develop a "to-read" list and refer to that when you are considering buying a new book, browsing OverDrive, or going to the library. One of the things I enjoy is that if you have an upcoming release on your "to-read" shelf, Goodreads will email me when it comes out so I don't forget about it! For a while I had my Goodreads reviews automatically ported to my romance review blog, but that project has been dormant for a while. But you can totally do things like that if you want. There are so many ways to use Goodreads--you can really use it exactly the way you like and ignore the others. Incidentally I have "thousands" of books logged because I read a lot, I read fast, and have been logging for a few years. I went back and logged some of my old comfort reads when I had some spare time. Also I tend to log short stories and novellas as well as novels. I think these "thousands" of books includes the ones I want to read but haven't yet. |
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07-06-2013, 02:17 AM | #38 | |
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That being said, I added my favorites on GR when i joined, and know i use it to keep track of what i want to read, and what i have read, along with ratings. |
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07-06-2013, 10:03 AM | #39 | |
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But the full site I find pretty easy to use. Might be because I'm familiar with it though... |
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07-06-2013, 10:47 AM | #40 | |
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07-06-2013, 07:15 PM | #41 |
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The app on my phone is not very good in terms of UI. I generally end up going to the full site instead, unless I'm afraid I will miss logging a book while on the go.
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07-07-2013, 09:21 PM | #42 |
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I use an iPad and I just use the website. I don't like the app at all.
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07-08-2013, 07:50 AM | #43 |
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I tried the app, maybe I should look at the website. The app was awful
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07-08-2013, 10:43 AM | #44 |
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The app (at least in Android) is much less robust and harder to maneuver than the full site. Though it does make it easier to add books by scanning the bar code.
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07-08-2013, 11:22 AM | #45 |
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The app is crap. (Said the Brat in the hat...)
Seriously, though, it really is. I tried it once, uninstalled. They said the made major updates, tried it again, uninstalled. I also tried the iOS version on the work iPhone and it suffered from similar suckage. I will say that the app can be good for adding / accessing books on the go, and it has improved in some areas, but it's still not very good for most of the other site functions. |
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