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카지노싸이트 Hack: The Power of the Want to Read Shelf
Every month, more than 18 million books are added to “Want to Read” shelves on 카지노싸이트.
What's a Want to Read shelf, you ask? You'll notice the green "Want to Read" buttons near each book cover on the site. When you click on that button, not only do you make it easier to plan your future reading, you also unleash the power of the Want to Read shelf.
Let us explain: Adding books to your shelf isn't just an easy way to track books you're interested in; it also helps build a book's buzz and gives you inside access to when that book is on sale, or free as part of our Giveaways program!
We'll break it all down for you! But first things first…
Never forget the books you want to read
Remember that book your friend was telling you about? Or that bestseller you've been meaning to read but keep blanking on the name? If your Want to Read shelf is up to date, you're always ready for your next trip to the bookstore or library. You can also view your Want to Read shelf on Kindle when you connect your 카지노싸이트 and Kindle accounts.
Pro Tip: Scan book covers straight to your Want to Read shelf
You can use the 카지노싸이트 smartphone app to easily scan book covers to your Want to Read shelf, which is really helpful when you're snooping through a friend's bookshelf. You can learn more about the scan function here.
You determine which upcoming and new books have the most buzz
If you shelve a prepublished book, you'll be notified when that book hits the stores. In addition, those shelvings on a book page let our editorial team measure the excitement for an upcoming book. We use that data to alert readers to the hottest books of the month, season, and year.
Share your future reading plans with your 카지노싸이트 friends
Adding books to your WTR shelf also creates a newsfeed story on your 카지노싸이트 homepage, depending on your newsfeed privacy settings. This lets your 카지노싸이트 friends know what you're looking forward to reading. If you're nice, they may even loan you their copy.
Get a great deal on a book you've got your eye on (and maybe get it for free)
United States-based 카지노싸이트 members will be notified if there's a 카지노싸이트 Deal for a book on their shelf. Your WTR shelf is also used to personalize your 카지노싸이트 Deals landing page. In addition, when you add a book to your shelf, you'll get an email alerting you to a chance to win that book if it becomes part of the 카지노싸이트 Giveaways program. The best part? Because publishers often run a giveaway to build early buzz on a book, you can sometimes get your book for free before it's in stores!
What's a Want to Read shelf, you ask? You'll notice the green "Want to Read" buttons near each book cover on the site. When you click on that button, not only do you make it easier to plan your future reading, you also unleash the power of the Want to Read shelf.
Let us explain: Adding books to your shelf isn't just an easy way to track books you're interested in; it also helps build a book's buzz and gives you inside access to when that book is on sale, or free as part of our Giveaways program!
We'll break it all down for you! But first things first…
Never forget the books you want to read
Remember that book your friend was telling you about? Or that bestseller you've been meaning to read but keep blanking on the name? If your Want to Read shelf is up to date, you're always ready for your next trip to the bookstore or library. You can also view your Want to Read shelf on Kindle when you connect your 카지노싸이트 and Kindle accounts.
Pro Tip: Scan book covers straight to your Want to Read shelf
You can use the 카지노싸이트 smartphone app to easily scan book covers to your Want to Read shelf, which is really helpful when you're snooping through a friend's bookshelf. You can learn more about the scan function here.
You determine which upcoming and new books have the most buzz
If you shelve a prepublished book, you'll be notified when that book hits the stores. In addition, those shelvings on a book page let our editorial team measure the excitement for an upcoming book. We use that data to alert readers to the hottest books of the month, season, and year.
Share your future reading plans with your 카지노싸이트 friends
Adding books to your WTR shelf also creates a newsfeed story on your 카지노싸이트 homepage, depending on your newsfeed privacy settings. This lets your 카지노싸이트 friends know what you're looking forward to reading. If you're nice, they may even loan you their copy.
Get a great deal on a book you've got your eye on (and maybe get it for free)
United States-based 카지노싸이트 members will be notified if there's a 카지노싸이트 Deal for a book on their shelf. Your WTR shelf is also used to personalize your 카지노싸이트 Deals landing page. In addition, when you add a book to your shelf, you'll get an email alerting you to a chance to win that book if it becomes part of the 카지노싸이트 Giveaways program. The best part? Because publishers often run a giveaway to build early buzz on a book, you can sometimes get your book for free before it's in stores!
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Elyse wrote: "Carol wrote: "Topher wrote: "what i need is for giveaway books to not automatically be added to my 'want to read' shelf... it's just one more way for the publishers/authors to generate fake buzz, a..."No, you can’t do that either. The rules state it must remain on your shelf.
Giveaways scheduled to run before this change won’t have the requirement so there may be a couple still floating around but not for much longer.
Janine wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Carol wrote: "Topher wrote: "what i need is for giveaway books to not automatically be added to my 'want to read' shelf... it's just one more way for the publishers/authors to generat..."or what? the worst they can do is exclude you from the sweepstakes. Fine.
Terra wrote: "JoEllen wrote: "I would love to have a field where I could mark how I heard about a book as I add to my Want To Read shelf. Then I could look back and see what were my favorite sources for new read..."In my private notes area I write how I found out about a book, where it is available, etc. Then when I come back to it months later I don't have to wonder why it is on my to-read list.
David wrote: "There have been many times when I look at my "Want to Read" list and wonder "Why did I want to read that?". So a notes / memo section would be great so one could remind oneself how they came across..."There is a notes section, but you have to go on the "edit activity/review" page to get it. :)
Viraphone wrote: "Brian wrote: "카지노싸이트 ratings are useless since far too many people rate everything 4-5. 3 should be a good average book in your estimation. Most books should be 3's. Really good ones are 4's. Th..."Brian wrote: "카지노싸이트 ratings are useless since far too many people rate everything 4-5. 3 should be a good average book in your estimation. Most books should be 3's. Really good ones are 4's. The very best bo..."
My ratings are typically 4 with some 3 or 5. I've decided that if a book is not of high quality, I do not want to read it. There are far too many books published to waste time reading lower quality books.
I have too many books in my Want to Read shelf as it is. What I really need is a Did Not Finish button, because I don't want to mark a book "finished" if I did not finish it.
The problem I have with the WTR shelf is that I use either desktop site or my app to add books as WTR...However I almost always exclusively use the app to scan the books I am about to read to add to my currently reading shelf. But as soon as I am finished and mark it as so with a star rating etc. half the time the same book is still in my WTR shelf because the one I actually read is a different edition or version (paperback/hardcover), my numbers get skewed this way.I don't like it...and I don't understand why these 2 shelves can't talk with each other and see that I read a different version of the exact same book. I end up going through my WTR list every once in a while to remove books I have read but almost 500 books on my WTR shelf it's very tedious and frustrating... Please someone enlighten me if I'm doing something wrong..
Sierra wrote: "The problem I have with the WTR shelf is that I use either desktop site or my app to add books as WTR...However I almost always exclusively use the app to scan the books I am about to read to add t..."I’ve had the same problem of duplicates for years. A friend pointed out to me on Monday that, if you go to your “my books” page, and scroll on the left to the bottom, select Tools, and Find Duplicates, it will identify those books for you. Then you need to work through each pair one at a time, but it’s still far more efficient than reviewing your TBR and endeavoring to find them yourself. At least it was for me. good luck.
Keith wrote: "Terra wrote: "JoEllen wrote: "I would love to have a field where I could mark how I heard about a book as I add to my Want To Read shelf. Then I could look back and see what were my favorite source..."Well yes I’m not suggesting that there is a serious consequence but people were talking about just unchecking the box and I was just explaining that if you want to enter you have to keep it in your want to read.
JoEllen wrote: "I would love to have a field where I could mark how I heard about a book as I add to my Want To Read shelf. Then I could look back and see what were my favorite sources for new reading material!"I do this by adding the book to an additional shelf. For instance, I have a shelf for Nancy Pearl's Book Lust and for a podcast I listen to, so when I add a book to Want to Read, I also add it to my Podcast shelf. Then I know how I found out about the book.
Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting and I want to read it firs..."For those who want another button, I solved that to some extent by creating an extra shelf called "a-short-to-read-list". By putting the 'a' in front, this shelf is at the top just below the Want to Read list.
It is a much shorter list that I can review more easily and add or remove books from there as I find others that I want to read sooner. For me, it is still a LONG list but when at the store or the library, I can access that shorter list easily to remind myself.
Danita L wrote: "Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting and I want to..."You can also make "sticky" shelves which will always be sorted to the top of your shelves regardless of what it's named.
It's nice in theory, but in reality, I almost never see a book on my WTR shelf actually show up in the Deals fo the Day email. A LOT of the things I get in there are books I wouldn't touch if you paid me. (chick lit can die a fiery death, thank you!)It would be nice to actaully see deals on things I want to buy, instead of things I have already bought and are filed on my Read shelf.
Rachel wrote: "I have too many books in my Want to Read shelf as it is. What I really need is a Did Not Finish button, because I don't want to mark a book "finished" if I did not finish it."Lots of us make DNF/abandoned shelves to handle that. I've also got a sampled-not interested shelf. Probably overkill, but I figure if I get past more than the first chapter before deciding it's not worth my time, it's more than a sample, just not worth finishing.
Sean wrote: "With over 1,000 books on my "Want to Read" shelf, it's become pretty useless to me. I almost wish there was some other way to organize them."Agree 100%. These new giveaways that force you to add a book to your WTR list aren't helping either. Really diluting the value.
Topher wrote: "what i need is for giveaway books to not automatically be added to my 'want to read' shelf... it's just one more way for the publishers/authors to generate fake buzz, and forces users to partake in..."THIS.
There's a reason why it's normally a checkbox. I'm guessing the publishers can lay down some extra cash and GR lets them force the book onto your list. Very bad. I'll read a lot of books but I want only the best of the best prospects to hang around on a shelf.
I didn't realize Amazon owned this site. Between Amazon ownership, winning so few books lately, and the forced addition of certain books to the "want to read" shelf as a condition of entering a giveaway.... I think I'll pur down 카지노싸이트 for a while.
Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting and I want to read it firs..."On your “want to read” self you can order them, but I understand that that can get unruly. I use different shelving title, like marking the ones that I can checkout at my library, titles that I can read online, or books that I already own but haven’t yet read, and so on.
Yaaresse wrote: "Emily wrote: "You can add a star rating to any book on your Want to Read Shelf! Just make sure to add it to that shelf before rating it; otherwise, it'll automatically be added to your Read shelf.*..."
I agree with you 100%. I always see Want-to-read, etc. with star ratings listed beneath a book -- and the star-rating of the book - at the top of the screen - factors those in. I don't think is very fair to the authors - especially if the ratings are 1 or 2 stars.
JoEllen wrote: "I would love to have a field where I could mark how I heard about a book as I add to my Want To Read shelf. Then I could look back and see what were my favorite sources for new reading material!"You could create a shelf for each "source", and add to that shelf as well as want to read.
Caitlin wrote: "Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting and I want to..."You could create an additional shelf, for example „WTR very badly“...
Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting and I want to read it firs..."+1 to that
Me clicking on this article: do...do we really need an explanation of what this shelf means??After reading: oh this is actually pretty helpful and a neat summation of its impact and fringe benefits, thank you.
Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting and I want to read it firs..."Totally onboard, great idea, it would be very helpful
Elyse wrote: "People have different standards for their 5 star ratings. My ratings are: 5-loved it, 4-liked it, 3-it was okay, 2-didn't like it, 1-hated it. "Same here!
My WTR shelf is a huge mess with over 3500 books on it. I've got an additional own-to-read shelf which I'm trying to reduce from almost the 900 books currently on it (so I've got a bit of a compulsive book-buying problem... I blame Kindle freebies and 2nd hand shops...), but that's about all the organization I can be bothered to do with them - I'd rather spend more time reading than organizing my shelves!
Sean wrote: "With over 1,000 books on my "Want to Read" shelf, it's become pretty useless to me. I almost wish there was some other way to organize them."Same here
I need a box to check that says "owned" or "purchased"! My shelf has over 100 books to be read, and I'm often unsure if I bought a specific book already or not. If I could check my goodreads account to check if I own it already or not (and lets be honest, I always check goodreads for reviews before buying a book anyways).
Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting and I want to read it firs..."My solution to that problem is that I have several Buy folders. Buy is just one "someday". Buy next is what I want to buy next time and so on. :)
Cara wrote: "Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting and I want to..."That's a pretty neat way to do it. I'll try that myself! Have you divided it by sub-genres? Or do you put it all there?
Elyse wrote: "Pranjal wrote: "Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesti..."Please, could you explain that point? My WTR shelf is like 300 maybe? Not too much I believe haha
Pranjal wrote: "Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting and I want to..."Hope you can explain that point a little bit more? How do you order them?
And I said the stars as a way of rating how much I want to read them, not rating the reading that, as you've said, I haven't even read yet. Hope there are no misconceptions here :)
Moonlight wrote: "Emily wrote: "Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting..."Hello,
I believe you understood me wrong. What I meant is that aside of having the WTR shelf, to have some way (anything, I said stars because that's the one that came to my mind) that says how much I want to read that book. Let's say a set of stars aside from the ones you put when you review it. So you'd have 2 set of stars:
- A set before you read the book indicating how it interests you for the summary, so how much do you want to read it: would you like to read it ASAP o is it more like something you read when you have nothing better?
- Another set of stars after you read it indicating how much you like it.
I'd appreciate it if you withdraw those horrible things you said for someone wanting another set of stars just for indicating how much I want to read something :)
I hope I cleared the concepts of the idea!
Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting and I want to read it firs..."good point Sara
Stacy wrote: "Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting and I want to..."Totally going to do that now!
Laura wrote: "Cara wrote: "Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting ..."I'm going to do that from now on!
Caitlin wrote: "Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting and I want to..."Yes, that's totally what I want
Emily wrote: "Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting and I want to..."No but I don't want that because that way:
1) Misleads other readers.
2) Would be like rating a book I haven't read yet.
I mean another set of stars (or another way to categorize how much I want to read something) so that I know my willingness to read it; and also, it would be different from the "reviewing" set of stars.
I hope i cleared out the concept :)
JoEllen wrote: "I would love to have a field where I could mark how I heard about a book as I add to my Want To Read shelf. Then I could look back and see what were my favorite sources for new reading material!"That's pretty interesting too!
Bridgett wrote: "Omg nooo stop using the star ratings as a sorting system. That is not what they are for. It’s a rating system. To rate how much you enjoyed the book. If you rate it 1 star because you want to read ..."Of course!
I meant another set of stars or just another way to categorize how much I want to read something.
I totally agree with you :)
Sean wrote: "With over 1,000 books on my "Want to Read" shelf, it's become pretty useless to me. I almost wish there was some other way to organize them."I'm over 3000 - at this point, it's not very helpful. I would really love an option that will pull out the standalones from series. That way, I don't start a new series right before exams or assignments but can get my stress relieving reading without giving up a week to compete a series I got hooked on
Rachel wrote: "I have too many books in my Want to Read shelf as it is. What I really need is a Did Not Finish button, because I don't want to mark a book "finished" if I did not finish it."That is true too. I normally mark it as a 1-star (becuase when I didn't finish it was that i hated it so much that I couldn't finish it) and then do the review saying that I didn't finish the book so my opinion of the whole book may be byased buuuuuuuuuuut there's a reason why I didn't finish it, so...
No-one seems to have mentioned yet and I was waiting for it to come up, so I'll say it - there's a reason that 카지노싸이트 wants you to start adding giveaway books to your shelves and it has a high price tag - explains it better but basically if you want to give away your book goodreads(amazon) will happily let you do that - just hand over $119. This rises to $599 depending on if you want a "premium" package or not. I won't be participating in giveaways any more because I think this charge is completely insane.
Oh and "There’s some other useful perks for readers: both the standard and premium packages will automatically add a contest book to your Want-To-Read list" unsure how this is useful.
For me the issue becomes: Is this available in my library system? Sometimes the books I want to read aren't available and then I have to figure out if it's worth purchasing.
Stephanie wrote: "For me the issue becomes: Is this available in my library system? Sometimes the books I want to read aren't available and then I have to figure out if it's worth purchasing."Do you have the library extension for google chrome? It will tell you right on the book page if it’s available at your library in print or ebook and the link will take you directly to the catalog record so you can put a hold on it.
Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting and I want to read it firs..."Welcome to the book side!
Sara wrote: "Cara wrote: "Sara wrote: "What I need aside from that is a button or stars indicating how much I want to read that. Because maybe that book is interesting but the next one is even more interesting ..."My WTR seems to stick around +/- 150. So I limit my Next Please shelf to 10 titles. I don’t break them down by genre, although I suppose if I had 300+ on my WTR, I might. And after I have read a couple I will comb through my TBR and pick one or two more to add. Or if I come across a new book I am super excited about, I throw it on Next Please and remove something else. I just hate that “why haven’t I read that yet? I totally wanted to read that but got distracted by something else” feeling. So this strategy is helping me avoid that.
I actually decided a couple of months ago to clear out my Want to Read shelf entirely. It was a real millstone around my neck, looking at the hundreds, even thousands of books I owned but hadn't read yet, the number was higher than my Read shelf in all the years I've been on the site, and would probably keep me busy for the next ten years. Now I never add anything to my want to read shelf, and simply try to whittle down the books I own, adding them to currently reading when I actually pick them up.
My current strategy for my Want To Read is to add everything I really want to read. When I hit the last day of December I'm going to purge the lot, keeping maybe 20 at most so I can start again next year. I read Young Adult books and hundreds get released every month so it's diffciult to keep on top of the new releases.
I've seen it happen on some giveaways and not on others, I wonder if it's up to who hosts the giveaway. But you can always go remove it from your shelf after you enter the giveaway.