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Feed Your Readers, the NetGalley Challenge

Duration: Monthly

How to Participate:

The NetGalley Challenge is designed to not only get you to read your NetGalley books, but to also advertise your reviews for others to see because after all, that's what NetGalley is all about.

Though you may pop in/out at any time, the NetGalley Challenge will run on a monthly basis so you are able to see progress being made.


1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf
b: What books are on your NG shelf
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is

2. During the month, read the NetGalley books that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)

3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s)**
c: Your updated shelf count
d: Your updated books to read
e: Your updated ratio

Then start a new post for the next month!




Do you ever get so caught up in your reading that you don't want to stop to write your reviews?

Thinking about that, it was decided we need a "Review Weekend", once each month, set aside to write those reviews you've been not doing in favor of reading!

Review Weekends will vary randomly each month and is meant to be a time set aside to review. Take one, or both days and get caught up on reviews so you can spend the rest of the month reading!!

The next Review Weekend is set for April 22/23



**When linking your reviews, please link only to the book(s) here at GoodReads. At this time, linking to a personal blog is not allowed. Thank you!

Reserved

Start of Month:

Books on Shelf : 6
Books:



Feedback ratio: 93%


FINISHED

review review

ADDED


End of Month:
Books on shelf: 8
Feedback Ratio:91%

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Beginning of Month

Feedback Ratio 70%
Books on Shelf: 42

Planning to Read


Read & still to Review


Reviews Posted


Books Added:



Current

Feedback Ratio 74%
Books on Shelf 38

April

Start: 1 book on shelf, 98% feedback ratio



Added in April:


Finished in April:


Current ratio: 98%

reserved

I'm in!

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 20
Feedback Ratio: 50%

Books (ordered by pub date):



Added:


Finished:
My Review My Review My Review My Review
My Review

DNFed and gave feedback on this one to get it off my shelf.
Read & gave feedback on samplers of these two.

End of Month:
Books on shelf: 19
Feedback Ratio: 60%

I'm in.

Beginning of Month:

Books on Shelf: 14


Netgalley Ratio: 86%


End of Month:

Read: 4


Reviews: 4
My Not So Perfect Life review
Before We Were Yours review
I See You review
Readers of Broken Wheel review

Added: 1


Books on Shelf: 11
Ratio: 89%

NetGalley Challenge – April
Books on shelf: 26

Books:


Feedback Ratio: 92%

Books Added During the Month:


Read + Review:
review review review review review review review review review review review review review

NetGalley Challenge > NetGalley April 2017


Beginning of the month books on NetGalley shelf: 11




Beginning feedback ratio35%

April starting Books on Shelf: 36
April starting ratio: 82%

Books that have been published: 21


Being published in April: 6


The rest: 9


Added in April: 13


Read and reviewed: 9
review review review review review review review review review

Ratio 78%
Shelf 28 books

To read:

1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf:

b: What books are on your NG shelf
Palace of Spies (2013)
The Dominant (2013)
Truth (2013)
Lip Service (2012)
Grave Mercy (2012)
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Books Added During the Month:



c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 92%

2. During the month, read the NetGalley books that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)
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3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s)**
c: Your updated shelf count
d: Your updated books to read
e: Your updated ratio

Books Read:

Start of month
Books on shelf

Feedback ratio

On Shelf 80
Ratio 76%
Goal 10 books

The Laird
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Okay... new month, new try.

APRIL

Start of Month:

Books on Shelf : 8
Books:



Feedback ratio: 88%


FINISHED


ADDED

End of Month:
Books on shelf:
Feedback Ratio:%

1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf
90 as of the 1st of April.
b: What books are on your NG shelf

c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is
19%

2. During the month, read the NetGalley books that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)

3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s)**
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
c: Your updated shelf count
d: Your updated books to read
e: Your updated ratio

Sonia I'm really jealous that you have the next Patricia Briggs!!!

I've started off better this month! I finished reading My Not So Perfect Life and got my first review in. :)



My Not So Perfect Life review

I *just* discovered the wonders of NetGalley last week so I am still navigating and figuring out what the heck I'm doing more or less so....yeah. But I'm really excited!! You all are now my role models in the Net Galley world, FYI. ;) I'm so glad I found this page. Apparently I need to request many more books at a time. I was afraid of just letting them sit and having a bad rating.

➜ At the beginning of the month, post your starting ratio: 40%
Beginning of the month NG shelf: 2 -

➜ During the month, read the NetGalley books that you can AND update your post with your reviews.

➜ At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read -
b: Link(s) to your review(s)** Noteworthy
c: Your updated shelf count: 7
d: Your updated books to read: 4
e: Your updated ratio: 48%

Lol Lindsay. Welcome to the club :)

Lindsay♫Sings wrote: "I *just* discovered the wonders of NetGalley last week so I am still navigating and figuring out what the heck I'm doing more or less so....yeah. But I'm really excited!! You all are now my role mo..."

Request!!! I got one approved right away, and shot down a bunch of times in my first month but I also got pre-approved for one I didn't even ask for :-)

Good luck!!

Beware though, Lindsay, it becomes VERY addictive quickly :D

I was just going to warn her of that, Nicole! lol This thread helps motivate you to get your NetGalleys read, but it can also be a bad influence for requesting more. Although, if you come here for support when your willpower is lacking, there is usually someone around to help you through your weak moments.

Hi, Lindsay! I adored Noteworthy - I hope you like it as much as I do! :D

I'm in again! I've been craving reading on my kindle a lot lately. . . though this month is going to be a bit crazy. Just this week I'm going to two concerts and out of town. . . Oh well, guess I'll have to sacrifice time sleeping :D.

How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 13
What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 54%

What books are on your NG shelf: (ordered by archived date)
(May/4/16) (May/5/16) (June/30/16) (July/6/16) (Oct/25/16) (pub. date: Jan. 17) (pub. date: Aug. 8) (pub. date: Feb. 24) (pub. date: Apr. 4) (pub. date: Apr. 4)

New


Read but not reviewed [feedback sent]


Read & Reviewed
Review Review


End of the month(view spoiler)[
Updated books on your NetGalley shelf: 11
Updated Netgalley feedback ratio is: 60% (hide spoiler)]

Eek!! Was just updating my start of month post and realized I have 41 books on my shelf. How??? Even more worrying 2 have today as their publication dates, 2 more are early next week and 4 seem to be the 20th April. I really need to get serious about not requesting any more books.

On the plus side look what I got after my last review

Congrats on your 100 reviews badge, Alison!

Thanks Kristie.

Silly question....what do you do if you didn't read the books before their publication date? Or their archive date? I have The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, which just came out, but I didn't make the time to read it until now :-/

Also I went through my list to try and prioritize what order to read everything else in and realized that quite a few of my books had already been published.

It doesn't really matter if they've been published or archived. As long as you downloaded the books you can still read and review. I've done that many times. If you don't have the book or don't want to review, you can send a message to the publisher through NetGalley.

Kristie wrote: "It doesn't really matter if they've been published or archived. As long as you downloaded the books you can still read and review. I've done that many times. If you don't have the book or don't wan..."

oh Thank you :-)

Kazen wrote: "Hi, Lindsay! I adored Noteworthy - I hope you like it as much as I do! :D"

Okay I'd been really good with not requesting anything new for the last little while, but I couldn't help it when I saw the description of Noteworthy. Oops! :D

Alison wrote: "Eek!! Was just updating my start of month post and realized I have 41 books on my shelf. How??? Even more worrying 2 have today as their publication dates, 2 more are early next week and 4 seem to ..."

Aww pretty badge!

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Alison wrote: "Eek!! Was just updating my start of month post and realized I have 41 books on my shelf. How??? Even more worrying 2 have today as their publication dates, 2 more are early next week..."

It really is, I don't know why but I was expecting it to look a little different.

Any idea what the next one will be? 250 reviews?

Oooh, I just looked and I'm only another 8 reviews from my 100 :D:D

Nicole wrote: "Oooh, I just looked and I'm only another 8 reviews from my 100 :D:D"

Darn, now I need to check too...be right back. Ok, I was daring and went on NetGalley. I did not request anything! I have 16 to go.

I still have 24 to go!

Yaaay!

First one for the month done :)

I've now read all 3 of her novels and they are fantastic. Highly recommended!


review

Question for anyone who feels like answering: Do you leave feedback for Buzz Book Monthly guides?

I leave feedback on netgalley, but not on Goodreads.

I have one finished for this month as well:

Alison wrote: "Any idea what the next one will be? 250 reviews? "

I did some digital sleuthing and found badges for 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, and 500 reviews. The last one is my favorite:



....I'll race ya there! ;)

Lindsay♫Sings wrote: "Question for anyone who feels like answering: Do you leave feedback for Buzz Book Monthly guides?"

I do on NetGalley - credit for the feedback, and usually they feature your review. :)

Woot! Definitely doing better this month. :) Review #2 and no requests...yet.

I read and reviewed Before We Were Yours . It was so good. If you like stories, such as Orphan Train, this would be for you. Again, this is based on a true story in US history that I knew nothing about until reading this story.



Before We Were Yours review

Interesting tidbit here. My percentage didn't go up at all with the above review, which is strange. It should go up by 1. That is fine, but on my profile it says that I have received 97 books and reviewed 84. That should mean that I have 13 books available to review, but there are only 12 on my shelf, including the " Older than 3 months" shelf. Also, I said that I had 16 left to get to 100 before and I still do now, so it seems that it didn't count this review. Maybe a glitch? I never noticed that happen before. I assume it will straighten itself out.

Edit: Yup. There is something weird with it. I just tried to go in and make sure my review is there. When I did a search by title it stated that there is no book by that title available. When I went in through "feedback sent," it was there and states that it archives in August. Hopefully, it gets cleared up soon.

Kristie wrote: "Interesting tidbit here. My percentage didn't go up at all with the above review, which is strange. It should go up by 1. That is fine, but on my profile it says that I have received 97 books and r..."

I've had this issue a bunch lately. It usually fixes itself within a day or so.

Thanks, Melanie. I've never noticed it before.