Crossroads discussion

So everyone come make yourselves comfortable and we will figure out how to use this.

Ok dare say, the site is too busy to transfer my shelfari shelf.. Good to get this far.

I don't like it here, but it's good to be with friends when you're stuck on a desert island.

JudithG(race)

Lesley wrote: "Ok dare say, the site is too busy to transfer my shelfari shelf.. Good to get this far."
Lesley good to see you here. I expect that this site will be quite busy for some time.

Jgrace wrote: "I don't like it here, but it's good to be with friends when you're stuck on a desert island.

JudithG(race)"

We have both been here for awhile without really acquiring a taste for this site. I'm not sure if it is a desert or a metropolis lacking in aesthetics or views of the flora and fauna that I object to. I'm going to try to focus on the good points now.
Many of us are already here.
Their your Year in 2015 was a very cool feature.
I like that you can track where you are in a book.
I like the page where you review the book better.

It's almost like we'll need a gazillion discussions so every comment is relevant to the same topic.

Try adding a book to the group shelf. Some nice features there. Hopefully, I can edit my comments later as my experimental musings are not meant for posterity

Denizen wrote: "Try adding a book to the group shelf. Some nice features there. Hopefully, I can edit my comments later as my experimental musings are not meant for posterity"

I've added a book. They sent me an email last night and it seems that I should be able to move our groups bookshelf to Good reads.

Denizen wrote: "It's almost like we'll need a gazillion discussions so every comment is relevant to the same topic."

Which will be problematic for our wandering discussions as Yakety yak and Mapping our reading.

Booknblues wrote: "Denizen wrote: "It's almost like we'll need a gazillion discussions so every comment is relevant to the same topic."

Which will be problematic for our wandering discussions as Yakety yak and Mappi..."

I don't think it has to be a problem. Take a look at how this group is organized:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

I don't think it has to be a problem. Take a look at how this group is organized:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

Nicely done! Now all I have to do is figure out how to do that

One step closer, G say they are transferring all 200 + books from my shelf.. I made my page view smaller, and this 'look' pleases me, more.

I am very attached to nested discussions. Have been posting in a Leafmarks discussion and must say I much prefer it. The initial page for a group is better at GR (looking at Story's example for The Reading for Pleasure Group) but then it falls apart when you go into a discussion.

Denizen wrote: "I am very attached to nested discussions. Have been posting in a Leafmarks discussion and must say I much prefer it. The initial page for a group is better at GR (looking at Story's example for The..."

Have You checked out our group home page. I've spiffied it up a bit.

I went on leafmarks finally and couldn't seem to do anything, but I will continue to try to figure it out.

Dueling threads! I responded about LM on Judith's comments in the Talk Talk thread, I think.

Just got this note from Shelfari:

" We wanted to let you know that we received your request to export data from Shelfari and will process it in the order received. Due to high request volume, we are experiencing delays - and processing your request may take 1-2 weeks.

Please know that we are working around the clock to speed things up. We apologize for the delay and will ensure that you get your requested export. "

So looks like we might get our shelves sent over eventually.

Storyheart wrote: "Just got this note from Shelfari:

" We wanted to let you know that we received your request to export data from Shelfari and will process it in the order received. Due to high request volume, we ..."

I just got the same message. At least we're giving them a little grief, too! I hope all the employees working around the clock are getting tons of OT pay - ha!

Storyheart wrote: "Just got this note from Shelfari:

" We wanted to let you know that we received your request to export data from Shelfari and will process it in the order received. Due to high request volume, we ..."

I haven't received my note yet. I am doing it piecemeal in the meantime. I have 1,000 read books on my Goodreads shelf and 1,500 on my Shelfari shelf.

So my books have arrived on my Goodreads shelf without being notified. I'm not sure if they arrived with reviews, but the tags came with them, because I first noticed new shelves on my Goodreads page.

Ironically now I have 100 more than I had on Shelfari.

Booknblues wrote: "So my books have arrived on my Goodreads shelf without being notified. I'm not sure if they arrived with reviews, but the tags came with them, because I first noticed new shelves on my Goodreads pa..."

I've always had more books at Goodreads than Shelfari. When I joined Shelfari, you couldn't just click on a book to add it- you had to do a search. Way too much work. When I joined Goodreads, I could look at other people's shelves and just click to add. I finally quit when I realized how many obscure books I was adding from my teen years, etc.

I also decided to remove books from the TBR at Shelfari (to maintain a reasonable number) after I imported to Goodreads. I have made it a point to add to the TBR here when I added to Shelfari, but the deletions didn't happen. Guess I'll have to set the TBR ceiling at 400 instead of 350, at least for the time being.

I've also noticed as I've been looking at the shelves here that many books are on the wrong shelf as far as read/to be read. Oh well.

Just tried the 'compare books' feature.. LOVE IT !! This is what I want to know : eg Conditions of Faith found a person whose review I liked, and : Your tastes are 68% similar for the books you both rated.

So good!!

All my books have come over except for 38.. One of them, is one of my all time favourites : "Prodigal Summer" by Barbara Kingsolver" .... I am not sure why this should be, but will put the ones I want, manually.

Still don't get a choice of amazon : Get a copy:Kobo

Online Stores ▾
Book Links ▾

Wonder why...

Denizen wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "So my books have arrived on my Goodreads shelf without being notified. I'm not sure if they arrived with reviews, but the tags came with them, because I first noticed new shelves..."

I haven't even dared to look at my TBR, because I imported from Amazon and I have a lot of kindle that I haven't read and I didn't always add them on Shelfari.

Lesley wrote: "Just tried the 'compare books' feature.. LOVE IT !! This is what I want to know : eg Conditions of Faith found a person whose review I liked, and : Your tastes are 68% similar for the books you b..."

They have the compare books feature at LM, also.

Denizen wrote: "Just tried the 'compare books' feature.. LOVE IT !!"
I think the compare the books feature is pretty cool.

My books were imported, however, I've got duplicates, ones I already dated and had reviews in are out of order with no reviews and books which I have never read are marked as read.

I was truly hoping that I wouldn't have to go through and straighten out my shelf...it really is a tedious job.

Booknblues wrote: "My books were imported, however, I've got duplicates, ones I already dated and had reviews in are out of order with no reviews and books which I have never read are marked as read.

I was truly hop..."

Technically, that's not supposed to happen, but evidently the system is flawed.

I wrote to the help desk at Goodreads today to see if anything could be done about the 1200 extra 'shelves' they created using my old Shelfari tags and some kind person there had it all straightened out for me in under two hours/two emails. So maybe they can help with your duplicates too.

Karin wrote: "Technically, that's not supposed to happen, but evidently the system is flawed."

I was hoping it wouldn't and I really wouldn't have realized it, but I compared some people's shelf with mine and saw books I hadn't read marked as read and no ratings and duplicates, so I went back and checked. I've been doing a piecemeal and had my read shelf through from now to part of 2012...I hope this part hasn't been changed.

Storyheart wrote: "So maybe they can help with your duplicates too. ."

What I'm seriously bummed about is that I had worked a little at a time adding the books in order that I had read from 2012 until this point and now I've lost some of that input, some stayed some disappeared. All my cat mystery books are out of order again and as you remember they were a good part of 2014.

Crap, crap, crap...I hate the redo!

I so loved my shelfari shelf.

Booknblues wrote: "Storyheart wrote: "So maybe they can help with your duplicates too. ."

What I'm seriously bummed about is that I had worked a little at a time adding the books in order that I had read from 2012 u..."

OK, on your bookshelf on top to the right, you can click on settings. There is a button that says position you can list your books by number. or click date read and your books will be in order by the date you read them.

My to be read bookshelf is listed by position (#) and my read bookshelf is listed by date read. If you need a example. I hope this will help.

Oh, for catching duplicates click batch edites then on the top right click on find duplicates and it will list all your duplicates. Then you have option to delete the ones you don't want. I use this one a lot.

Was wondering how to check this, too, thanks.

Diana S wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Storyheart wrote: "So maybe they can help with your duplicates too. ."

What I'm seriously bummed about is that I had worked a little at a time adding the books in order that I h..."
Thanks, Diana, I figured that out, but many of the date reads are missing, so I had to go through and fix and I was able to eliminate duplicates, but again time consuming.

I'm missing about 300 read books, but I think they are books I read earlier in life....I've corrected back to 2011. My goal is to have it correct to 2010.

This is one more hassle in my life that I really, really don't need. Hard to stay even remotely positive. As for the compare books feature, that's a bit better than the Shelfari 'Books in Common' feature, but otherwise...I'm not impressed, but I reckon I'll get used to it.

And Lord only knows what's already on my Goodreads shelf; the first time I came to Goodreads, years ago, I had no idea what I was doing and it kept presenting me with books and saying "don't you want to read these?" and I kept saying "Why, yes, thank you, I would" so I guess they've ALL been added to my TBR, and I didn't mean for them to be. I was saying to those books "Pleased to meet you" and Goodreads was pimping them to me, saying "We will bring them to your tent." And I never figured out, on that first attempt, how to get out of that system-shoving-books-at-me mode!

As I said on FB: if there's one thing I surely do not need, it is recommendations from some algorithm designed by somebody I don't know.

If all my reading data as stored in Shelfari gets over here, I will be very pleased (and darned amazed).

My worst problem are 41, yesterday, and 47 today, emails that I can't read unless I go back to 'read on goodreads'.. I'm sure I've changed a setting somewhere as most of the emails are from threads I have not even commented on... A few from the aussie group does display the message. Not a big problem. I'm sure the above clue will let me work it out after my annual holiday. (Watching the Australian Open)..hehehe

Mary Ellen wrote: "If all my reading data as stored in Shelfari gets over here, I will be very pleased (and darned amazed).

Well, MEF, I'm glad you made it over here. I've corrected my shelf back to 2009 and that is perhaps all I can hope for.

Mary Ellen wrote: "This is one more hassle in my life that I really, really don't need. Hard to stay even remotely positive. As for the compare books feature, that's a bit better than the Shelfari 'Books in Common' f..."

I am amazed at how poorly they hit my interest when they suggest books. They do better when they tell me a book on my TBR has a give-away. The people who like this book also liked these are a better match.

I hate what they put on my favorites shelf. Can I please say which books are my favorites?

Lesley wrote: "My worst problem are 41, yesterday, and 47 today, emails that I can't read unless I go back to 'read on goodreads'.. I'm sure I've changed a setting somewhere as most of the emails are from threads..."

I've already left one new group and asked for no notifications from the other as there is enough clutter in my life without exploring new areas. Plenty of time for that later, or not.

Yes, I agree.. However for ??? the aussie group's comments appear in the email body, now, so I can just skim through all their em's.. However the crossroads ones, re-direct me to GR, every time.. Sure it's just a settings thing.

Denizen wrote: "Mary Ellen wrote: "This is one more hassle in my life that I really, really don't need. Hard to stay even remotely positive. As for the compare books feature, that's a bit better than the Shelfari ..."

It seems as if we should have a favorites shelf. I ended up making a tag or "shelf" for my favorites, but I dearly miss the Shelfari heart.

At this point I officially have a group at Leafmarks and a group at Goodreads.

Me, too. And I have my books at Leafmarks, but not here. :-(

I expect that we will all be hopping back and forth between Leafmarks and here.

Denizen wrote: "Mary Ellen wrote: "This is one more hassle in my life that I really, really don't need. Hard to stay even remotely positive. As for the compare books feature, that's a bit better than the Shelfari ..."

Yes, you make a bookshelf saying Favorites or My Favorites or whatever. Then whenever you read a book that's a favorite , mark it as a favorite. It's that simple. :)

Booknblues wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Mary Ellen wrote: "This is one more hassle in my life that I really, really don't need. Hard to stay even remotely positive. As for the compare books feature, that's a bit better th..."

I miss the heart too. :)

I've given children's books 5 stars because they are excellent children's books but they are not favorites. I hate getting on and seeing the selection of books on the GR Favorites shelf on my profile page. A 5 star book and a favorite are not the same thing.

Most of my stars didn't arrive.. Can't be bothered to look into it at the mo... Real life probs here (not just tennis)

Denizen wrote: "A 5 star book and a favorite are not the same thing.."

Exactly, some of my favorites I rated 4 stars.

Denizen wrote: "Mary Ellen wrote: "This is one more hassle in my life that I really, really don't need. Hard to stay even remotely positive. As for the compare books feature, that's a bit better than the Shelfari ..."

Well, Amazon itself does just as poorly, so whatever software they use is limited.