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Originally Posted by JSWolf
So can I only see reviews/ratings from people who have marked a given book read?
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I don't think there is a correlation between the shelfs and the ratings. But you can follow folks that you know only use the site the way you want them to use it. Then you just look at their reviews from then on and you are done. Don't have to look at any of the other masses anymore.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But if you have read an ARC, you have to mark it read in order to be able to give a proper review. Also, there is a way to handle ARCs by having a separate entries for an ARC versions.
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Lots of arc readers wait a bit closer to release date before they put down the full review. Many of the folks that I follow do that. So they give it a rating as a place holder. They don't change the shelf all the time until they write the actual words later. Some arcs get send out quite a bit in advanced and often one is asked to wait a bit to post it. Once that happens they put the free for review bla bla there as required. Unless life happens and they never get around to putting their written review in.
Not sure what the rating has to do with the shelf. I have a gazillion shelves, like many do. What that means sometimes is that I forget to move it from one to the other. So I might have ratings there, but its still in want to read. Or any other shelf I created. It happens. I try to do the rating from my kindle and most times it does the correct thing and also marks it read. But not always. So once in a while I have to go in and clean up. When you have like 4000 books on the shelf, stuff like that might not be something that is a priority to someone. Putting it on the read shelf is just for personal use. Some create their own read shelf and don't even bother with the pre programmed one. So all their ratings are in the to-read shelf, but they have their own shelf they also put it on. If that makes sense.
Its a very personal sorting system. Everyone has a different one.