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Originally Posted by Paperbackstash
With books, it's iffy - I have rated and reviewed a lot of books I haven't owned since before having a Goodreads account - I moved several reviews over from my book blog when trying to collect all in one spot. Even if they would only allow owned books somehow, I'd hate that since it would mean I couldn't rate/review books currently owned.
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I'd gladly widen "owned" in this case to having owned at any given time the rights and ability to read the book. Meaning, should you choose to at 2am in the middle of a freak blizzard/hurricane/tornado which has shut all commerce down, want to read the book you were able to. Regardless of if the ownership later passed to another, or back to a party.
And to Issy's point, yes it's rather hard to verify if someone has read the book, Amazon could easily allow linking a GR and Amazon account to show if someone has bought an edition of a book though. Lets not pretend that GR has remained wholly agnostic about preferred book vendors. They needn't make it a requirement, just an added bonus.