All About Books discussion

Shirley wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Can we have a thread which tracks new book releases? And members can put books they're looking forward to on it. I'd be happy to work it if you mods are too busy to handle it."

Tha..."

Do any moderators want to take this? If not, I'm happy to work it.

Alannah wrote: "Shirley wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Can we have a thread which tracks new book releases? And members can put books they're looking forward to on it. I'd be happy to work it if you mods are too busy to ..."

I really don't have time these days...

LauraT wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Shirley wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Can we have a thread which tracks new book releases? And members can put books they're looking forward to on it. I'd be happy to work it if you mods ..."

That's completely fine, I have quite a bit of time on my hands and no immediate plans for further study. At the minute all I have is my dissertation which will really only take at least a couple of hours a day.

Alannah wrote: "Shirley wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Can we have a thread which tracks new book releases? And members can put books they're looking forward to on it. I'd be happy to work it if you mods are too busy to ..."

Alannah, do you mean a link to a website? I think Goodreads does its own tracking. I think it would be good to have this thread, perhaps under "book chat", and if you are happy to set it up and manage it, that would be great! Just let us know if it gets too much, though...

Shirley wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Shirley wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Can we have a thread which tracks new book releases? And members can put books they're looking forward to on it. I'd be happy to work it if you mods ..."

Not a problem, I will get it set up right away.

Alannah wrote: "Shirley wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Shirley wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Can we have a thread which tracks new book releases? And members can put books they're looking forward to on it. I'd be happy to work..."

Alannah, this is the thread from another group I am in. As you can see, all members can contribute. It doesn't fall to one person's responsibility for updates as this would obviously be a huge undertaking. Thought this might help you.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Bette BookAddict wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Shirley wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Shirley wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Can we have a thread which tracks new book releases? And members can put books they're looking forward to on it. I'd ..."

Looks good, Bette, I think that's a great idea.

Bette BookAddict wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Shirley wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Shirley wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Can we have a thread which tracks new book releases? And members can put books they're looking forward to on it. I'd ..."

That's what I was thinking but I would have a big calendar at the top to help other members so they wouldn't have to go through the posts.

That's it done, but every book I was going to put has already been released.

Timothy wrote: "Dely asked why I was interested opinions of non-Americans. I’ve been told that I ask too many questions and maybe this is just another instance."

Thanks a lot for answering. Me too, I'm a very curious person ;D

I like your idea but I think I can't add a lot to your discussion because, I'm sorry to say it, I don't know a lot about American literature. But I think it will be very interesting.

Here you go guys:

Book Releases

I'm still hoping for something to be set up, where we can express literary views as inhabitants of one country, about another country's literature. I think what Timothy was asking, was how English people view American literature, and which of the US authors he mentioned non-Americans have heard of, and whether outsiders rate them in a similar way to how they are rated in their home country.

I was keen to respond, as was Gill, and Dhanaraj actually commented on the topic itself.

But when I said "from an English point of view" I wasn't thinking of the sort of questions you mentioned, Alannah, as those are purely local issues, ie only interesting for people within the UK. (They are great questions, but not about the topic we were actually discussing.)

What I meant was, I personally would be interested to hear other countries and cultures' views of English literature, and other countries views of other countries (eg USA on Australia) - ie those outside my own experience.

I've restricted this to English-speaking nations purely to simplify the examples. This would clearly be a popular theme, as several of us have expressed a desire to respond.

So how about it mods?

Jean wrote: "I'm still hoping for something to be set up, where we can express literary views as inhabitants of one country, about another country's literature. I think what Timothy was asking, was how English ..."

I'll set one up in the morning, Jean, as on my phone at the moment.

Brilliant! Thank you Shirley, you are a ★!!! :D

Alannah wrote: "Here you go guys:

Book Releases"

Alannah, the problem with the calender idea is that when we members get notifications or emails, it brings us immediately to the relevant post and not the Calender part.

Maybe it would be better to leave out the Calender and let everyone's posts just stay as they are.

Bette BookAddict wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Here you go guys:

Book Releases"

Alannah, the problem with the calender idea is that when we members get notifications or emails, it brings us immediately to the relevant post and..."

As I can't delete the posts, I just thought we'd do it both ways at least for now to try it.

If you decide would like the posts stating release dates deleted at any time (like Jenny does with the bday calendar) just let me know :)

Thank you Becca.

Alannah wrote: "Bette BookAddict wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Here you go guys:

Book Releases"

Alannah, the problem with the calender idea is that when we members get notifications or emails, it brings us immediately..."


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Jean wrote: "Brilliant! Thank you Shirley, you are a ★!!! :D"

Was going to set up a new thread, but have discovered we already have one entitled "World Literature" under 'Book Chat' - so I thought we could use that? I will move the discussion from here onto there and we can all chat away about it.

Here's the link to the World Literature thread:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Shirley, thanks for copying. I wasn't online yesterday so I missed the latest developements. I thought maybe the last idea was for it to have an own thread and to maybe also create one for British lit at some point? However discussion in World Lit seems to have kicked off now which is good. If it get's very lively, I think at some point in time it might be worth it to open a World Lit folder rather than thread maybe, where we can discuss literature of individual countries or cultural circles. (people could open a thread for a country/region they are interested in) Or would this add too much to our slight overabundance of threads?

Jenny wrote: "Shirley, thanks for copying. I wasn't online yesterday so I missed the latest developements. I thought maybe the last idea was for it to have an own thread and to maybe also create one for British..."

Yes, we could do that. Maybe see how it goes for a while...

agreed!!

A new idea for a Challenge (featured in one of my other groups)

ALL ABOUT ME!! in ALL ABOUT BOOKS !!

This challenge is all about you!!

Rules
1. You may do as many categories as you like.
2. Please specify how your books relate your the category (if it isn't obvious).
3. You must use a different book for each category.
4. Please note your start and finish date.
5. HAVE FUN!

Duration: 4 months from start date.

Name: Read a book with your name in it somewhere (can be in the title, author, character etc)
DOB: Read a book that was published in your year of birth or a book published in the month you were born.
Age: Read the (your age) book on your TBR list.
Nationality: Read a book from that country.
Street name: Read a book starting with the first letter of your street.
Occupation: Read a book with a character that has the same occupation as you.
Dependants: Multiply that number by 100 and read a book with that many pages.
Education: To Grade 10 – Read a book from the YA genre. Grade 12 – Read a book from the Classics genre. Degree – Read a book from the Historical Fiction genre. Masters – Read a auto/biography.
Pets: Read a book about an animal/s.
Favourite colour: Read a book with the cover in your favourite colour.
Favourite hobby: Read a book that includes your favourite hobby.
Favourite movie: Read a book that has been made into a movie.

I like that idea Bette, but I would need more than 4 months to do it, it's quite a lot of books.

Bette BookAddict wrote: "A new idea for a Challenge (featured in one of my other groups)

ALL ABOUT ME!! in ALL ABOUT BOOKS !!

This challenge is all about you!!

Rules
1. You may do as many categories as you like.
2. Plea..."

Thanks Bette, sounds like a good idea, we will definitely bear this in mind when we are planning our group challenges for 2015!

Last month we had so many people say 'yes' to the Readathon but probably only half posted their number of pages at end of weekend. Would it be worthwhile to send an 'event reminder', in the form of an event, to remind people? Or would a Group Announcement suffice?

I'll leave it up to the Mod Squad to decide. Thanks, Bette:)

oooh that All About Me book challenge looks like a great idea Bette!

How can you do an "event reminder"?!?

LauraT wrote: "How can you do an "event reminder"?!?"

I think the only way would be to do a group announcement as a reminder, or send an email to all members.

I got an event reminder from GR about the readathon this morning, (7 hours ago) so unless that came from one of the mods GR already sends them out.

One of the other groups I'm in did readathons and stopped doing them because very few people ever took part.

Thanks to whoever did the Readathon event reminder:)

I've received it as well, but I didn't do anything. Probably it is sort of connected wuth the event form!!!

I need help getting a book here into GR. I am not a librarian. This audiobook ( http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/Tw... ) I just bought from Audible and it is not listed here at GR.

I would be very thankful if someone could add it here at GR.

Thank you in advance!

Oh, a friend saw me asking for the collection of Chekov stories and has already added it for me. Here it is now: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

I don't need any help, but thank you anyhow.

Chrissie wrote: "Oh, a friend saw me asking for the collection of Chekov stories and has already added it for me. Here it is now: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2......"

Oh dear... I just added it too. I'll go delete my copy.

Oh Leslie, I am sorry. I wrote here as soon as I saw my friend Laura had added it. (((Leslie)))

Chrissie wrote: "Oh Leslie, I am sorry. I wrote here as soon as I saw my friend Laura had added it. (((Leslie)))"

Well, it was a good learning experience as I have never added a new title before (just different editions of existing titles). Gotta look at the silver lining :)

Anyhow, thank you, Leslie. and I am sorry you then had to spend time deleting it.

Chrissie wrote: "Anyhow, thank you, Leslie. and I am sorry you then had to spend time deleting it."

Pshaw! It takes about 5 seconds to delete!

Laura- Yeah I believe GR sends event invite reminds automatically. A lot of people do have their profiles set to not get EIs though because some authors use them to spam people.

Chrissie- Unless they've changed something or it works differently in Europe you don't have to be a librarian to add a new book only to change something about book that is already in the system.

amber wrote: "Laura- Yeah I believe GR sends event invite reminds automatically. A lot of people do have their profiles set to not get EIs though because some authors use them to spam people.

Chrissie- Unless ..."

Oh, I had no idea! I thought there were special places you had to go to get the covers and stuff like that. I thought you were not allowed to copy stuff from particular places.

@Chrissie. If you are simple entering a new edition, you can copy the blurb from an edition already on GR.

Be aware that when you load on a new edition, you need to ask Librarians/Moderators to combine editions for you. If you don't, your new entry will appear like a 'new' book the author has released i.e. will not appear in the list of 'other editions' of the book.

Bette BookAddict wrote: "@Chrissie. If you are simple entering a new edition, you can copy the blurb from an edition already on GR.

Be aware that when you load on a new edition, you need to ask Librarians/Moderators to c..."

Actually this book was not listed at all. It wasn't a matter of a new edition.

@Chrissie. Ah! no problem. Oh well, you know what to do now if you have a new edition for a current book:)

Chrissie wrote: "amber wrote: "Laura- Yeah I believe GR sends event invite reminds automatically. A lot of people do have their profiles set to not get EIs though because some authors use them to spam people.

Chr..."

There are copyright rules about author photos, but I don't think there are any rules about book covers. You can also add a book without adding a cover to it at all. None librarians can add things to a book they added, so you could go back and add the cover later as well.

Bette BookAddict wrote: "@Chrissie. If you are simple entering a new edition, you can copy the blurb from an edition already on GR.

Be aware that when you load on a new edition, you need to ask Librarians/Moderators to c..."

A lot of story collections have different groupings of stories and you aren't supposed to combine those. That is why people like Chekhov have thousands of books listed as being written by them, because every time a collection comes out with a different grouping of works it gets a new listing.

amber wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "amber wrote: "Laura- Yeah I believe GR sends event invite reminds automatically. A lot of people do have their profiles set to not get EIs though because some authors use them to s..."

There were rules about book covers before Amazon bought GR - no Amazon gifs or jpgs were allowed.

Leslie wrote: "amber wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "amber wrote: "Laura- Yeah I believe GR sends event invite reminds automatically. A lot of people do have their profiles set to not get EIs though because some authors..."

I forgot about that. The big cover switch that then switched back.

amber wrote: "Bette BookAddict wrote: "@Chrissie. If you are simple entering a new edition, you can copy the blurb from an edition already on GR.

Be aware that when you load on a new edition, you need to ask L...

A lot of story collections have different groupings of stories and you aren't supposed to combine those. That is why people like Chekhov have thousands of books listed as being written by them, because every time a collection comes out with a different grouping of works it gets a new listing."

Yes, I am already aware of that, thanks amber. I was listing the basic rules for Chrissie. More information can be found the the Librarians Manual which can be found in the Help menu. https://www.goodreads.com/librarian_m...