All About Books discussion

Getting around Goodreads can be daunting at first. This is the the link to the help page on Goodreads. http://www.goodreads.com/help

Here are some tips:

CHANGING FONT AND STYLE
Making text bold, italics, underline or strikethrough is easy.
I'm bold is I'm bold
I'm italics is I'm italics
I'm underlined is I'm underlined
And I'm strikethrough is And I'm strikethrough

ADDING AN AUTHOR OR BOOK LINK TO YOUR COMMENTS
To add a link to an author or book title or display a book cover in your comments, click on "add book/author" which is located just above the box you write your comments in. Once it's open you will see at the bottom you can choose "cover" instead of title if you prefer to display a picture of the book. Adding links instead of just typing the title will link this topic to the book's home page and increases the profile of the book and our group.

HOW TO ADD PHOTOS TO YOUR COMMENTS
Another popular question is how do I add photos to my posts. Google "photobucket" (there are many other sources but that's a good place to start). Select the photo you want and to the left you'll see a box that has the "html" text that will allow that photo to appear on other sites. Copy the text and paste it into your post. Preview your post and you will see that the picture appears, not the text.

WHY DO SOME COMMENTS BEGIN WITH PREVIOUS MESSAGES IN ITALICS?
If you want to respond to a particular message so it's clear that is what you're talking about then just click the word 'reply' at the bottom right of their message.

HOW TO CROSS OUT YOUR BOOK WHEN FINISHED
put title in here

ANOTHER WAY TO ADD AN IMAGE TO YOUR POST
In Firefox and Chrome, right click on the image you want to share, then click on 'copy image location'.

Then [image error]

In Internet Explorer, right click-properties and copy image url. Then do the above.

HOW TO PUT ♥, ★ AND ☆ IN YOUR TEXT
For a heart type this: &,hearts;
For a full star type this: &,#,9733;
For a blank star type this: &,#,9734;
(take out the commas)

HOW TO USE THE WORK-AROUND FOR RE-READS, UNTIL IT'S A FEATURE

Edit your book review, hit "advanced" and there's a field there for "number of times read". Keep track of your re-reads that way:) (Thanks Liam!)

HELPFUL LINKS
Feel free to ask the moderators any questions but you can also also ask the experts at the Goodreads Feedback group http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1... or the Goodreads Librarians grouphttp://www.goodreads.com/group/show/2... .. Individual requests for help can be sent via the help page.

HOW TO FIND YOUR NEW RELEASES PAGE

Go to your profile, then Emails tab. Toward the bottom is a list of "Newsletters and Other Mail" you can receive from GR. The 4th item is the "New Releases" email, and next to that is a "preview" link. Click on it.

Or just use this link: http://www.goodreads.com/new_releases...


TIP: For those wanting to save all their books/reviews you can export to a .CSV file.

Go to "My Books". On the left side is a list of links. Click on "import/export". On the new page, upper right, is the link to export to a .CSV file.

Thank you Bette, that's a great thread to have! As for italics, strike, underline, add link, photo & co, maybe it's handy to know that you can see the way to format when clicking on the (some html is ok) above the comment box on the right hand side.

Jenny wrote: "Thank you Bette, that's a great thread to have! As for italics, strike, underline, add link, photo & co, maybe it's handy to know that you can see the way to format when clicking on the (some html..."

I wasn't sure whether to post this thread or not since most people seem to know their way around. But it may come in handy for new members to AAB/GR.

Thanks for this. Very helpful

Brilliant thread, Bette! I have a feeling that I'll be coming here a lot!

Charbel wrote: "Brilliant thread, Bette! I have a feeling that I'll be coming here a lot!"

I'm pleased for that. It certainly helped me when I was first learning my way around 'how to do things'.

Yes , thanks so much , Bette . Love your new pic but would love to see all of your face !

Angela wrote: "Yes , thanks so much , Bette . Love your new pic but would love to see all of your face !"

Thanks, Angela. I am a very unsuccessful selfie photo-taker.

Thank you so much for this thread, Bette!

Alice wrote: "Thank you so much for this thread, Bette!"

I nicked it from my Aussie Readers group:P

Some great tips here, Bette! Thanks for starting this thread :)

I can't remember where but someone asked how to reduce photo sizes. Not the image itself, for when you are post within a thread. That's a question of fiddling with the dimensions in the html code.

But if all you want to do is include the whole of your face, or centre yourself a bit better in your profile picture, then do it on your computer before you upload it to Goodreads. My profile pic is cropped from a much larger distance photo, for example. I used Microsoft Paint.

btw ya'll to do a heart it is the left lesser than sign and the number 3. <3

&hearts, ★, ☆

Just trying out the signs :)

Amber, not sure what you mean?

You know the two keys at the bottom row of the keyboard after the letter M key, the comma and period keys. There are arrow signs above them. The one on the comma u use shift on the comma key and it's one of the arrow keys then the number 3 key and that's a heart.

<3

Yeah, I tried that, but the heart shape doesn't show?

You mean this >3 stands for the heart?

You must've hit the period key instead of the comma key when you did it then. because when you do it you hold down shift then the comma key and then the number 3.

<3

<3

This is the heart?

But I want the heart-shaped heart. The tip in this thread didn't work either - &hearts

Yeah it is. :)

I think it only works on a pc or laptop, certainly not on a kindle :(

I'm using a laptop (Samsung)!

It doesn't work for me either, on my computer! But the ★ and ☆ do!

Help, Bette!

Jean wrote: "It doesn't work for me either, on my computer! But the ★ and ☆ do!

Help, Bette!"

I just write the word "star", I've given up!!

Alice wrote: "<3

This is the heart?

But I want the heart-shaped heart. The tip in this thread didn't work either - &hearts"

Alice you need to put ; at the end of the word hearts

♥

I did it yay! :) but I like the other way too. <3

Well done Amber :)

Thanks Sharon. :)

♥

Thanks Sharon!

♥ ♥

You're welcome, Alice :)

Jean and Shirley,

You have to put ; after &hearts (thanks to Sharon's help)!

♥

♥ ★ ☆ - thanks everyone!

♥

♥ ♥ ♥ Thanks Sharon!

Do you know, this had occurred to me, but I didn't bother trying it out because my so-logical brain saw that both the others also had a ; but just as separators! I should have followed Sherlock Holmes's method...! :D

You're welcome, Jean :)

Jean wrote: "Some great tips here, Bette! Thanks for starting this thread :)

I can't remember where but someone asked how to reduce photo sizes. Not the image itself, for when you are post within a thread. Tha..."

That was me, Jean. Yes, I finally reduced via Photo Gallery. That was after I tried for ages to do it on GR and said a lot of bad words:P

I should have said sooner - sorry, Bette!

Jean wrote: "I should have said sooner - sorry, Bette!"

:)

Talking about GIFs on another thread reminded me of a question I have:

Some people use little ticks (or checks, if you are American - those little signs the teacher might put in your book if you got your sums right. And if you got them wrong we all know your teacher would put little kisses...) Can anyone tell me the html code to do this please?

I am one of those people I believe, and I do it in an incredibly sophisticated and technologically advanced way. *Drum roll* I copy from here ;)

What a brainwave! I never even thought of cut-and-paste! Thanks Jenny - I've bookmarked the page :)

;)

At some stage, someone (Leslie?) explained to me how to put a photo into a comment straight from my goodreads photos. Help please!

I assume it would be like with any other image link: go to (some html is ok) copy the template for image and replace http://www.goodreads.com/image...with the link to your image (you might want to also adjust height and width)

Jenny wrote: "I assume it would be like with any other image link: go to (some html is ok) copy the template for image and replace http://www.goodreads.com/image...with the link to your image (you might want to ..."

Just tried and it didn't work, so I'll have another go later. Thanks！

Gill wrote: "At some stage, someone (Leslie?) explained to me how to put a photo into a comment straight from my goodreads photos. Help please!"

Sent you a message with details...

Isabel wrote: "&,hearts;

why did this not work?!!"

Isabel, you just type &,hearts; without the comma.

♥

Isobel, I struggled with this one too! You also take out the space between '&' and 'h...

Bette, I just found this thread and I think it's great! My question is, how do you indicate a reply to something that is further down in the text of the post, not the first few words? I've seen people do this and have not been able to duplicate it.

Terri wrote: "Bette, I just found this thread and I think it's great! My question is, how do you indicate a reply to something that is further down in the text of the post, not the first few words? I've seen peo..."

I usually copy/paste the part of text I want to quote.

Yes, I do what dely does.