Who Doesn't Love a Classic? discussion

Here's a place we can help one another learn to navigate this new site.

For example:
Did you know that you can insert a link to a book or a cover easily into your reviews? Above the comment box in which you are typing you'll see add book/author
Click that link and a pop-up menu will appear. Type in the title of the book you want. If it's a common title you may have to choose the correct book. You can also click the other editions link under the ADD button to expand the editions of the book - especially helpful if you are looking for a particular cover image.
Click the large ADD button next to the edition you want and you get (for example):
Pride and Prejudice

If you want to add a COVER image ... on the same pop-up box, at the very bottom
ADD: O link O cover
It automatically defaults to "link" ... but if you click the cover box before you hit the ADD button you'll get:


If you have questions about how to do something, ask away.

Also, to the top right of the comment box there is the (some html is ok) link that will show you a list of the acceptable html you can use. I just learned that this week (the note was there, but I just learned I can click on it to find the code).

Thanks for this! Though I've been on this site for a while now, I still don't understand really how it works.

How do I make stars?

Lara wrote: "How do I make stars?"

I just use the asterisk *
But try this code - NO SPACES
☆ open star = & # 9 7 3 4
or
★ black star = & # 9 7 3 3

I'm not sure how to string them together to have, for example, 3 stars ... ★ ★ ★
Okay ... just put a space between each of the html codes

★ ★ ★

I did it!

I like adding a book with a cover image... how do you include both the image and the link (i.e. with words)? Do you essentially add the book to the post twice, once with cover and once with words?

And how do you do the quote thing at the beginning of a comment to note which comment you're responding to?

Thanks!

Megan wrote: "I like adding a book with a cover image... how do you include both the image and the link (i.e. with words)? Do you essentially add the book to the post twice, once with cover and once with words?
..."

Exactly


Megan wrote: "And how do you do the quote thing at the beginning of a comment to note which comment you're responding to?..."

You click the reply link at the bottom of the post you are answering. It will automatically populate the comment box with the BEGINNING of the quoted post. If you want to respond to something that is a bit farther down in the post, just copy paste the relevant comment (like I did for THIS response) inside the italics html codes.

Book Concierge wrote: You click the reply link at the bottom of the post you are answering. It will automatically populate the comment box with the BEGINNING of the quoted post. If you want to respond to something that is a bit farther down in the post, just copy paste the relevant comment (like I did for THIS response) inside the italics html codes.

That makes sense... I just didn't expect it to be so simple. Thanks!

Question: is there any way to delete a discussion post/topic? For example, the "Looking for a new moderator" thread. I did close it to new replies but I was wondering if there's a way to remove it? I don't know why but it annoys me that it's still there.

Lara wrote: "Question: is there any way to delete a discussion post/topic? For example, the "Looking for a new moderator" thread. I did close it to new replies but I was wondering if there's a way to remove it?..."

I'm not sure ... but I would leave it. It will drop off as other posts are more current. And we might, at some point, want to see if any of the people who asked questions are interested in volunteering for a one-time task.

I think you could also EDIT it to take away the all caps ... that might make it seem less "in your face."

Am I the only one that HATES the way you have to tag books on this site?
I loved it with Shelfari because the word cloud would come up with everyone else's tags and your most popular tags were below as well. The way it is here I have to scroll through my whole stupid list of tags to make sure I'm not missing/forgetting one!

Lara wrote: "Am I the only one that HATES the way you have to tag books on this site?
I loved it with Shelfari because the word cloud would come up with everyone else's tags and your most popular tags were bel..."

I always type my review in a word document first (spell-check, etc). I have started to also type out my TAGS in that document.

When I copy/paste it into Goodreads I then click on the "Choose shelves" ... but ...I've recently discovered that rather than scrolling down I just start typing. So I'll type conc which bring up "concierge" and then I just hit enter ... then I start typing the next tag/shelf.

You do have to pay attention if you have tags that are similar - for example HISTORICAL FICTION vs HISTORY. You either have to type past the "R" to get the definitive tag, or click on the one you want after you've typed HIS ... but still, it eliminates all that scrolling.

If you type in a tag that you have not previously used it will ask if you want to add that shelf ... click on "add XXX shelf" and voila! (The next time you want to use that shelf it will already be in your list.

I always clear the line of TAGS from the review, before I hit save/submit. But there's no harm done if I forget and leave it there.

Hope that helps.

Book Concierge wrote: "Lara wrote: "Am I the only one that HATES the way you have to tag books on this site?
I loved it with Shelfari because the word cloud would come up with everyone else's tags and your most popular ..."

A lot of the time though I'm not sure if I've used tags in the past that would apply to that specific book. So that's why I end up scrolling all the way through, just to make sure I'm being thorough. Very obnoxious. I'm just not good of thinking of which tags to use unless I see them right in front of my face ;)

I never used all the tags here than I used on Shelfari, because of that huge scrolling issues (I really only JUST discovered the ability to start typing and Voila!) ... still, my list of tags/shelves is pretty long. But I no longer care if I use every tag that might apply. I just read Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission for example ... I will ALWAYS use "concierge" and "library"
In this case it was an "audio" and about "world war ii"
The only other one I added was "Philippines" (I'm trying to track settings/locations).
I'm sure I could have added "adventure" or "soldiers" or "military" or just the generic "war" ... but I'm really trying to limit the number of tags I use for each book.

Just the way I approach it.

So...I just noticed while scrolling through my TBR that a few of my books that I imported as READ loaded in the "to read" section and my star reviews and tags are all gone. Ugh! I found two...hoping there aren't any more...

Lara wrote: "So...I just noticed while scrolling through my TBR that a few of my books that I imported as READ loaded in the "to read" section and my star reviews and tags are all gone. Ugh! I found two...hopin..."

Do you still have your export file from Shelfari? If yes, you can email
support (at) gmail (dot) com
and ask for help. They may be able to retrieve some of that "lost" data for you.

Book Concierge wrote: "Lara wrote: "So...I just noticed while scrolling through my TBR that a few of my books that I imported as READ loaded in the "to read" section and my star reviews and tags are all gone. Ugh! I foun..."

I don't think so... :(