Everything Booklikes & Leafmarks discussion

New this week: Private Bookshelves! You can make your reviews private as well by saving them as Drafts.

Ms Bubbles SockieP wrote: "New this week: Private Bookshelves! You can make your reviews private as well by saving them as Drafts."

Private shelves already existed -- that was just a reminder, tagged onto the post about the "collect your likes" Thursday candy.

Useful, though - I've never known how the "private" worked.

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Useful, though - I've never known how the "private" worked."

I can see how making a review private would be useful (while you're not yet ready to publish it), but I think the only books I'd want to make private are those I'm planning to give to others as gifts. Just me, though, of course -- I've heard others say they'd like to make their additions to their TBR shelf private so as to not clog up everybody's feed. Which is very considerate, but which I think is a pity ... rather, I would very much like to have the option to comment on people's additions to their TBR piles, e.g. if those are books I've enjoyed as well (or am considering reading, or whatever).

Themis-Athena (Does not and never will own a Kindle) wrote: "Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Useful, though - I've never known how the "private" worked."

I can see how making a review private would be useful (while you're not yet ready to publish it..."

I'd like that option, too.

I would really like that as well - to comment on shelving.

I didn't know that there were always private bookshelves. Just shows you how observant I am!

Robert wrote: "I can see how making a review private would be useful (while you're not yet ready to publish it..."

I use the drafts for all sorts of things, not necessarily connected to BookLikes. It's a good place to store a load of links, thoughts on books I might buy for me or the shop, pictures.... anything really.

Ms Bubbles SockieP wrote: "Robert wrote: "I can see how making a review private would be useful (while you're not yet ready to publish it..."

I use the drafts for all sorts of things, not necessarily connected to BookLikes...."

Dang, that's really a great idea(s)!

Isn't timeline the same thing as "liked posts" plus your own activity?

I actually have a "not age group or whatever for me" shelf I made private on booklikes just because there's currently no compare-books option; I don't want followers seeing my shelves or shelf additions to think those books are to my personal taste.

Hopefully if booklikes goes back to their roots and adds book recommendations they'll let us specify shelves like goodreads does (I still think it's weird that only this year did goodreads change recommendations to only be based on books you liked; almost makes me want to put just my ratings back to see if recommendations now work here).