2025 Reading Challenge discussion

What is secret Santa? I apologise for my ignorance

No need to be sorry. It is a thread Kara sets up where our members send and receive books from each other without knowing who sent it.

Oh, I see. Thank you!

Just to remind everyone - in case you haven't cast your vote yet, today is the last day (to vote for the best books of 2018). There are about 14 hours to go. I just cast mine!

Is there any way to find a group member's Personal Challenge space? I wanted to post on someone's page who I'm not friends with . But there are so many Personal Challenge threads that I gave up. :/

If you know the member's name, you can do a search in the "search discussion posts" bar. Choose topic only. That should make it easier.

Another way would be to members and see if you can find them there as well. By tapping on their names, all of their posts come up.

This works great as long as their name isn't something like Amy or Susan...we have a lot of those.

Kadijah Michelle wrote: "If you know the member's name, you can do a search in the "search discussion posts" bar. Choose topic only. That should make it easier.

Another way would be to members and see if you can find them..."

Thank you. I started through the Members list but it is loooooong.
I will be patient and wait until they post to their personal challenge space. :D

Kristin wrote: "Oshizu, have you considered just private messaging the member instead? Or, messaging them and asking for the link to their personal challenge?"

Well that's an even better idea!
For some reason, I thought I could send a PM to a group member unless we were friends already.
Thank you for the tip! I'll try it!

Goodreads help! I startes my Member Corner. I thought I will paste the challenges that interest me and then edit them as I get ideas which books would suit the challenge. But now I noticed I can't edit a post I have posted! Surely there is a way to edit?

I am very new to this so I’m not sure how it works. I’ve made the thing in the 1-25 books but do I also have to make my member corner thing? I don’t really plan on participating in challenges so can I just use my topic (if that’s what it is) in the 1-25 to keep track of how I’m going or should I have done that the other way around? Sorry I don’t really know the terminology and I have no clue what I’m doing

Johanna wrote: "Goodreads help! I startes my Member Corner. I thought I will paste the challenges that interest me and then edit them as I get ideas which books would suit the challenge. But now I noticed I can't ..."

Johanna, there should be an edit button in the bottom right corner of every comment, between reply and delete. Are you using the desktop version? Editing comments is not possible in the app.

Amy wrote: "I am very new to this so I’m not sure how it works. I’ve made the thing in the 1-25 books but do I also have to make my member corner thing? I don’t really plan on participating in challenges so ca..."

Amy, you don't have to make a member corner if you don't want to. It is all up to you! You can keep track of all the books you read in your personal challenge topic :)

I was trying both app and internet version on my phone. Luckily we a have computer at home also though!

I posted in the 2019 76-100 folder and now I can’t find my post. Any ideas?

Hi Charity, I think this is what you were looking for.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I suggest bookmarking it.

Blagica wrote: "Hi Charity, I think this is what you were looking for.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I suggest bookmarking it."


Thanks Blagica! It works from the link and it shows in the folder when I pull it up on my laptop but not in my app. I'm gonna delete the app and reload it to see if it shows up. Thanks again for your help!

Anytime!

Hello ~
Newbie at posting entries :)

How do I edit my entry (on my member's corner)? I'd like to be able to edit my entry every time I've read a new book etc. I am using Google Chrome as my browser on my phone, but I can't seem to find any edit button. Please help me :)
- Shiruji

Kristin wrote: "Shiruji wrote: "Hello ~
Newbie at posting entries :)

How do I edit my entry (on my member's corner)?"

It must have been a bug, because everything is allright now ;)

This seems to have been a common problem the last couple days because many of you have been asking this question.

Goodreads.com has good days and bad days, and we just have to be patient sometimes.

Hi Moderators,
I tried to add a link to a book in my post in the 2019 reading challenge (1-25) by using the square brackets.

The title The Great Sea shows up in the post as a link, but when I click it after posting the app seems to hang with the message “loading...”.

I am using the iPhone Goodreads app.

Could you please help me?
Thanks!

Hans wrote: "Hi Moderators,
I tried to add a link to a book in my post in the 2019 reading challenge (1-25) by using the square brackets.

The title The Great Sea shows up in the post as a link, but wh..."

I checked out the link and it seems to work (on a desktop), but it links to the search results for The Great Sea, not the book itself.
I generally recommend using the desktop version of the site (on a pc or your phone), for anything more complicated than reading comments, as the app still lacks a lot of functions. In the desktop version there is the option add book/author just above the comment box that you could use to add a link to your book.
Hope this helps!

Thanks Ilona!

I was wondering when it comes to the challenge, do most people including things like graphic novels and short stories as part of their challenge. For example, the Saga series in the volume forms. It seems a bit of a cheat when I do it, so I was wondering what people think.
I don't normally include short stories. Novella, yes, but not short stories.
Anyone got thoughts on this?

Smee wrote: "I was wondering when it comes to the challenge, do most people including things like graphic novels and short stories as part of their challenge. For example, the Saga series in the volume forms. I..."

Smee, I hardly read any graphic novels or short stories, but if I do I count them towards my challenge, and I think that most people do.
If you would like to have responses from many members, it is best to create a topic in our Group Discussions folder.

Smee,

Ilona and Kristin (who are both great Moderators!) gave you great answers, but I'm going to give you the official Group Answer we have been giving since the group began:

If you count it as a book, we count it as a book! It's up to you.

I think most people know after they have read something whether they have read something of substance or not.

Hi, I have no idea if this is the best place to ask. There's a book that is up for a buddy read that I'd like to read as well, how do you sign up to be part of a buddy read??

Wait, so should I look for the book I want to read, or should I just put a comment that says "I'd like to join this buddy read", sorry if that's a lot of questions!

If it is for a future/planned buddy read, you can go to to the link Kristin provided and say I'd also like to join the reading of this book. Hope this helps

I have a question- I just joined this group a few days ago and am doing some of the challenges. One I am doing is the 2019 Popsugar challenge. I started this on my own at the beginning of the year but just discovered the group... Can I count the books I already read for it in the challenge or should I redo them? I think there are 3 :)

Kristin wrote: "Hi Alix, you can count all books that you finished in 2019 for the yearly challenges regardless of when you join. So yes, please go ahead and count those 3 or so books!"

Thank you :)!

Hello! I have a question about nominating books for group reads. I know that you need nominate stand alones or first in the series, but what are the rules on books that can be read as stand alones but aren't the first. For example (not that I plan to do this in the near future!) series like The Babysitter's Club, where each book can be read as an individual one, but may say #12 or something? Just curious, just in case it ever pops up!

Ashleigh according to the rules on the page
~ Please do not nominate books that are part of a series, unless it is the first book in a series. I would stick to just starting at number 1 and if it gets chosen you can always continue the series as a Buddy Read. I will double check with the other Mods just to be sure.

Is the poll for the April group read nomination going up today?

Marc wrote: "Is the poll for the April group read nomination going up today?"

Hi Marc, you can vote for the April group read here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/5...

Im in the personal group and for book challenge 2019. I wanted do do less books. I have now over 100-200 books. but I change my book challenge to 70 books. can any moderators change group for me. I can´t read so much books. I can´t go to the library.my library closses to the winter 2020. I have library but do I must go on the bus and leave with the bus. to my library.

Caroline_Booklover wrote: "Im in the personal group and for book challenge 2019. I wanted do do less books. I have now over 100-200 books. but I change my book challenge to 70 books. can any moderators change group for me. I..."

Caroline, I moved your peronal challenge thread to the 51-75 folder. You can find it here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/....
Best of luck with your new goal! :)

Have you guys thought about setting up a Discord server so that everyone can chat in a chatroom environment? Really useful for communities and have no problems in helping set one up if you haven't any experience in doing so.

James wrote: "Have you guys thought about setting up a Discord server so that everyone can chat in a chatroom environment? Really useful for communities and have no problems in helping set one up if you haven't ..."

Sorry in advance if I'm replying to something I shouldn't, but that's actually a great idea!!

James wrote: "Have you guys thought about setting up a Discord server so that everyone can chat in a chatroom environment? Really useful for communities and have no problems in helping set one up if you haven't ..."

Hi James.

Thank you for your input, we appreciate it. Discord is a great tool and I use it a lot for gaming related communities. We have decided however it's not right for this group for different reasons.

Winter wrote: "James wrote: "Have you guys thought about setting up a Discord server so that everyone can chat in a chatroom environment? Really useful for communities and have no problems in helping set one up i..."

It can be a bit of a dicey decision to make, especially with so many trolls out there.

Presumably at least some of you mods are also Goodreads librarians. How can I report an error in a series listing? Someone put their own self-published book into an official series. It irks me and I don't know where to flag this for possible changing.

Hi Marc, there is a Goodreads Librarians group where you can ask a Librarian to fix these kind of issues :)

Can i add my books from jan to april to some of the challenges i want to join?

Tammie wrote: "Can i add my books from jan to april to some of the challenges i want to join?"

Tammie, you may count all the books that you've read this year for the yearly challenges. :)

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llona could you do me a fav and delete my challenge under i tagged it so u can find it ARCHIVE 2018 Member Corners

Tammie wrote: "llona could you do me a fav and delete my challenge under i tagged it so u can find it ARCHIVE 2018 Member Corners"

Of course! Just to be sure (I don't wanna delete the wrong thread by accident), this is the one you're referring to, right?https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Ilona wrote: "Tammie wrote: "llona could you do me a fav and delete my challenge under i tagged it so u can find it ARCHIVE 2018 Member Corners"

Of course! Just to be sure (I don't wanna delete the wrong thread..."

yes

Can a special place to track the Summer Reading Challenge be set up here? There seems to be a lot of popular demand.