NetGalley Buddy Readers discussion

Just out of curiosity, what percentage of books that you read are from Netgalley?

I am relatively new to Netgalley, only joined this year and have just gotten my 50th review badge. As such, I am trying to build my profile and am reading probably 2 Netgalley books to every 'normal' book I have on Overdrive/Libby.

However, I am now building up a TBR list on Libby which I really want to get to.

What percentage of your reads are from Netgalley?

Pretty low. I've read 339 books this year and 84 are NetGalley sooo about 25%? Which is the highest it's ever been. Audiobooks really upped my NG game this year. Since I joined NetGalley Readers (the mother of this group? lol) my stats are as follows:
In 2018 I read 11.
In 2019 I read 41.
In 2020 I read 27.
I wasn't really keeping track prior to 2018 but I have been a NG member since 2013.

I read more other books than NG only bc I'm tied to some group and buddy reads outside of NG. Plus I try to keep my NG shelf smaller and more manageable. I wouldn't mind reading more NG books if I could find more time!

I don't actually know my percentage, but think it would be interesting to go back and look at my stats to find out.

I also read more non-NetGalley books and try to keep my NG shelf smaller. I have a couple of real life book clubs that I read for as well as a couple of other Goodreads bookclubs that I moderate, so I always have group reads and challenges that I read for.

I really want to get to some of my other non-NG books some time. It isn't often that I pick something up just because I feel like reading it, but I enjoy it and I have a long list of those books. I need to get better about this.

I checked my 2021 list and about 10 percent of the books I’ve read this year are NG. I keep my NG requests low so I can get to them among all the other books I want to read/listen to. So many books, not enough time!

Well, I read - a lot. Netgalley (joined 2016) has added flexibility to the kind/types of books that are available for me to read. I've read some really good books .. and some duds, lol.

That being said ...

My Goodreads goal was 200 (which includes NG books) this year, I'm over 250 as of today and still have 4 more weeks in the year.

My Netgalley goal was 100 this year and I'm at 99 as of today.

So, not quite ~50/50

So, I have a couple questions being new to this and all.
1. The last 2 reviews I have done on NG wouldn't post to GR because it said that the ISBN was not found. I posted them on GR anyway by copying - but will NG get mad thinking I am not sharing on my social sites?
2. The last book I listened to I put a bookmark because there was a quote I wanted to use, but when I went back to check the bookmark it first of all put to the beginning of a chapter not a specific point - but then the chapter didn't even contain the quote. has anyone used the bookmark function for audiobooks on the shelf app and is that typical?
Thanks in advance as I try to figure this out!

You can link books to NG manually. I do that all the time because I don't want to link my social media accounts. I just copy the URL of the review and past it where NG tells me to link reviews on the review page.

I've never tried to bookmark one of their audios, so I don't know if that's typical. I've tried to back up and it won't let me go past the beginning of a chapter without going to the list of chapter links and selecting, which is frustrating, so I'm not super surprised if they have issues with that.