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Originally Posted by DNSB
A feature I would immediately check on disabling. What I am reading and how fast I read it is not something I want posted on Goodreads or anywhere else.
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I misunderstood the 'ask' as well at first.
I believe OP wants % complete to auto-update, without having to create a GR Post that Friends and Followers are going to see in their feed.
Or at least that's my takeaway.
I don't particularly value posts from the people I Friend and Follow that just say "I'm 39% finished! I'm 41% finished!", so I don't want to generate posts like that myself.
Yet I like to go to my Currently-Reading list to see a snapshot of the books I've started reading and how I'm progressing with them all. But the only way to update reading progress there now is to Update (in the app or web site or via Kindle Share), which is not only clunky, but it is spam to people following me.
Hence the motivation for auto-update, at least If I'm reading something on Kindle platform, which mostly I
am doing.
Of course anyone go to my page and see this if they care to, but it's not going to be construed as social communication, like actual posts are intended to be.
I think it would improve the experience for Goodreads users who aren't using Kindles as well, as they would no longer be subjected to nearly as much of this noise.
What are the chances of Goodreads making this change? Probably zero. The development team is not doing much more than keeping the lights on, and keeping the ads flowing smoothly.
It's entirely possible to make yourself invisible on Goodreads, and still use it to track your reading and read the reviews there.
But I like seeing updates from people I know IRL, or those whose reviews I enjoy reading, and imagining that that's reciprocal with my small following.