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For the past two days I've been trying to send a book to my Kindle. Usually it works just fine, but it won't let me send three books. One of them expiring in a couple days. I tried to manually send it from my computer and that didn't work either.

I checked Amazon and @netgally.com is still on my approved list. My Kindle is hooked up to WiFi. I've synced it half a dozen times. I've tried it from my phone and my computer.

Anyone know how to solve this? I'd rather not read these books on my computer

The only thing I can suggest (which worked for me once for some reason) is when my kindle wouldn't sync my magazine subscription, I did a hard restart (where you hold the power button in for like 30 seconds which turns it off). And that magically worked.

Good luck!

It could be on NG's end and the files aren't getting sent to Amazon, or there could be a bottleneck at Amazon that's preventing the files from being processed and sent to your kindle. Try checking the Manage Your Content & Devices section of Amazon - the books ought to be showing up under Documents.

Kazen wrote: "It could be on NG's end and the files aren't getting sent to Amazon, or there could be a bottleneck at Amazon that's preventing the files from being processed and sent to your kindle. Try checking ..."

I checked and none of them are showing up under documents. I did message NG to let them know that three different books aren't coming my way. I've done three restarts on my Kindle. Not sure what else to do at this point

Hopefully it's just weekend maintenance - here's hoping they show up soon. :)

Thanks! I'm nervous because one of them expires today and I was a late acceptance and it sounds SO GOOD so I may download it to my computer just in case

I've been caught before with a recipe book that just wouldn't download to my kindle properly. Turned out there was a note on the book page to say the kindle version didn't work so pdf only. I'm sure you probably would have spotted that but I'd download the pdf just in case.

Alison wrote: "I've been caught before with a recipe book that just wouldn't download to my kindle properly. Turned out there was a note on the book page to say the kindle version didn't work so pdf only. I'm sur..."

I'll look into that one as well. But since it's happening with three books I don't think that's the case :/ I just wish I knew if it was a NG problem, an Amazon problem, a me problem, or a mixture of them all

I'm wondering if "protected PDF" has something to do with it. Under some of them it says "Protected MOBI" and those are the ones that are downloading. I'm not sure what the difference is.

As far as I know protected PDFs get converted by Amazon into a text format (MOBI?) before they're sent to your kindle. So that may be where the log jam is - Amazon might be doing maintenance or something, seeing as how it's currently the wee hours in the US.

If that's the case, they've been doing maintenance for four days now and I can't get the book anymore because it's archived

Netgalley is aware of the problem - it looks like it's on amazon's end and they're working on it. If it was sent from NG okay there's still a chance you can get it! I have a book of my own caught up in this now so I'm here twiddling my thumbs with you. :)

Hopefully I am still able to get the one that was archived. If not I will just contact the publisher to let them know

Good luck Beth! How frustrating

I have just joined NetGalley. I have no clue what to put on my bio since I am only a reviewer. Can anyone help?

Just put your name in, say the kinds of genres you like to read and your blog name. I also make a note that every book I finish will get a full review.

Nicole wrote: "Just put your name in, say the kinds of genres you like to read and your blog name. I also make a note that every book I finish will get a full review."

Thanks Nicole!

If you don't have a blog, you can link to your GR page. Also, state if you review on other sites, such as Amazon, etc.

I haven't checked in to Netgalley for a few months and now I see that they have a new feedback section with separate opinions and reviews.

I try to write reviews for every Netgalley book I read but I am so far behind that it would go so much faster to just leave an opinion for the books I didn't particularly care about.

Since my opinions are counting toward my feedback goal I assume that this is fine, but does anyone know if publishers would get miffed about that?

That's what I've been doing the entire time I've been using netgalley since June last year, and I haven't seen any complaints.

Nicole wrote: "That's what I've been doing the entire time I've been using netgalley since June last year, and I haven't seen any complaints."

Thanks! That is going to make things so much quicker.

I'll probably still write reviews for books that I have a definite opinion about, but there are some that I just don't feel strongly about one way or the other.

Question?? I read and reviewed a few books on Net Galley, but they aren't yet listed on Good reads so I can't post here. Is any one a GR librarian??

even if no one here is a librarian, you can always go to the librarian threads and request that they add something for you. Just give them the info

You can add books yourself too. I've done it a couple of times before. I forget how at the moment and I'm not on my laptop to see how I did it. If you can't figure out how to add it, I agree the best idea is to leave a message for the librarians in the Goodreads Librarians group.

Kristie wrote: "You can add books yourself too. I've done it a couple of times before. I forget how at the moment and I'm not on my laptop to see how I did it. If you can't figure out how to add it, I agree the be..."


Thank you ladies

I am a librarian, so you can post here also, but the Librarian's Group is a good idea because there is always someone there to do it super quick :)

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "I am a librarian, so you can post here also, but the Librarian's Group is a good idea because there is always someone there to do it super quick :)"

Thanks Karen, Id have to go back into my bookshelf for the titles and ISBN numbers

Hi all, I would like to join in for July. Is it too late for this month? I just finished one two days ago and am starting one today.
Thanks

Not at all. You can join at any point each month :)

Thank you, Karen!

No problems. Lovely to "meet" you and welcome to the group!

Thanks for accepting my friend request Karen!
I'm so excited to do some challenges and I'd to join a tower team when a spot becomes available. I did submit my owl! 😊

Yes, it's just been posted. We had a lot going on with our other team challenges over the last few days so it was a bit delayed ;)

I usually read and review for another site: Booksprout. com. And I'm way behind with my reading/reviewing. Could I use this challenge to help me lower my Booksprout TBR? Or is it just for Netgalley?

When it says to post how many NetGalley books are on our shelf, does that mean our Goodreads or in the NetGalley site shelf?

How do we figure out the ratio? When I first joined NetGalley, I didn't know how to do anything but request the books. Long story short, I have tons of books back in 2013 that I had on my shelf but never read because I couldn't figure out how to download my books and didn't know how to post my reviews and other issues, so I have like 245 books on my shelf. The only way that I can actually see all of them is to go to Give Feedback. My RECENT shelf shows 7. I guess I'm being long-winded/wordy. Can you tell me the best way to begin this challenge since I'm all screwed up? LOL

On my GR shelf, I have 50 TBR NetGalley and 36 read.

Thanks for your help. I think this challenge would help me get on top of my NetGalley books!

When you're logged into Netgalley if you click on your name at the top right and go to your profile (or just use this link https://www.netgalley.com/member/profile), that has a few stats including your ratio (you don't have to manually calculate it for the challenge).

So for instance mine has the below.

Feedback Ratio: 84%
346 Approved | 292 Feedback Sent

So my ratio would be 84% and I currently have 54 books on my shelf (approved minus feedback sent). So those are the numbers I would use.


Some extra info on what the different views are for seeing what books you have.

If you to go the Your Shelf tab on the site that will show you all the books you have broken out into categories.

Start Reading - These are books you have been approved for that you haven't downloaded yet that are still available to download. Download these before they archive.
Give Feedback - These are the books you've already downloaded that are waiting for reviews
Feedback Sent - The ones you've already reviewed

The last one Not Active has multiple categories. The first two (pending and declined are pretty self explanatory).

Archived, Not Downloaded - These are books you were approved for that you never downloaded before they archived. Anything on here you'll have to access another way (library or buying the book, etc) since they can't be downloaded anymore.

Will Not Give Feedback - Anything in here are books that you mark you won't be providing feedback on. Just note, if you mark anything with this category then the books will not increase your ratio (they're basically as if you didn't provide feedback but it removes them from your other shelf views). You can always go back later and provide feedback on them if you change your mind.

Melanie wrote: "When you're logged into Netgalley if you click on your name at the top right and go to your profile (or just use this link https://www.netgalley.com/member/profile), that has a few stats including ..."

Oh my goodness, thank you so much!! Now I know just exactly how awful I've done! I'm bound and determined to fix it!! Slowly but surely.

I appreciate all the info!

Tammy wrote: "I have just joined NetGalley. I have no clue what to put on my bio since I am only a reviewer. Can anyone help?"

also add if you are part of a book club or something like that where you would share your views

Does anyone withdraw their not active pending shelf when it is past the Publish date? Or does it look bad and I should just leave them there?