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Originally Posted by issybird
How exactly could Goodreads verify that a person’s read a book?  Unless you’re suggesting mandatory linking of Amazon and Goodreads accounts, which would at best only verify that a book’s been bought at Amazon and would exclude buying a book anywhere else. That’s kooky talk; the review itself tells whether or not a book’s been read. |
But if the person has to mark the book as read and then be able to review, that means a date can be posted as in verified reader on some date. This marked as read would be before it's published. Hopefully most of the commenters would not do this and stop commenting when they've not read the book.