SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

And then I edited it to add one missing semi-colon, and it killed all of my uncloaked HTML, and I had to keep re-editing to get it back the way I had it. I am NEVER doing that again! ;)

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Eureka! Thanks, Youkneek!

Or should I say Eureka!

Huzzah! Congratulations Michelle!

And nice thinking, YouKneek. I wish everywhere accepted html inputs like Goodreads! Diacritics and umlauts are an über-pain otherwise.
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So, umm, working on the instructions I was going to use in the trial of the bold spoiler system, and I posted it to see how it looks on the iOS app and it cuts the post off after a couple of sentences. So, anyone using the iOS app regularly, can you please help me if you already have an idea of what things break the app? I already know that:

- images don't show and cut off anything after
- underline doesn't show

What else? I have no idea what it is about this text that makes it not show, the first character not shown is an exclamation mark, so is that something that you've noticed before? I'm sorry guys, I'm extremely frustrated, I don't have the patience required to test every f*cking character to see what works and doesn't work, when I'm just trying to post a simple written instruction for a system we wouldn't need if GR got their shit together :S

edit: Another test cuts off at the blockquote tag, so I guess those don't work either?

I don’t know what it is exactly, like how many characters, but on the iOS the last word or two or three (depending on how long they are) of the second to last line of a post is invisible.

That is so effed up :S

DivaDiane wrote: "I don’t know what it is exactly, like how many characters, but on the iOS the last word or two or three (depending on how long they are) of the second to last line of a post is invisible."

that's the problem I usually have.

Most of the time I can work it out what the missing words were but sometimes, I’m like, “NOOOOO!!” So annoying.

Yes my brain usually just fills in that gap but occasionally you really wish you knew 😆

RULE 1A -- end the second to last line of every post with gibberish?

Of course it’s not doing it in this thread. 🙄

What about when you

When you what??????? Arrgh!

Lolol

I am new to Goodreads and I am trying to download my book, REGENESIS. I have tried every which way and still am unable to download. I have tried with the ISBN and with the AMAZON URL, but it cannot find the book. I need help. Please. Bruce Vaughan

Bruce wrote: "I am new to Goodreads and I am trying to download my book, REGENESIS. I have tried every which way and still am unable to download. I have tried with the ISBN and with the AMAZON URL, but it cannot..."

you don't download it from Goodreads - you download it from whichever site you bought it from (Amazon, Nook, iBooks, etc)

Hi Bruce, that's not an "us" question--please check out the Libriarians group!

actually this would be a good thing to try;

go to the Amazon website
click on Customer Service on the top and/or bottom of any Amazon webpage
click on Need more help?
select Contact Us (Chat and Phone are both available)

and I recommend doing this on a computer using a browser (preferably not Chrome)

Hi, I am not sure if this is covered specifically in the rules or not but if you wish to run an online market research survey - can you post a link to it in Goodreads? As it is not selling / promotional in nature it does not seem to fall under those particular rules. Do you need to submit it to a moderator to review first, or can you just post it?

I don't know about Goodreads in general, but the rules for surveys in this group can be found under the section "Authors/Bloggers, Researchers, and Other Professionals".

OK, thanks. I can't find anything specific under Goodreads terms.

Essentially the survey is for my own market research purposes. I won't be collecting any personal information (e.g. email, name, address, user names etc). It is all anonymous.

I (hopefully) explain the purpose of the survey in the introduction which is : "This is a survey all about SciFi and Fantasy fiction.

I’m doing this because I’d like to find out more about what you guys – the readers – would most like to see in 2021.

This is a market research survey so all your answers are anonymous – that means I won’t be linking them to your name or email address etc."

I can send a link to the survey for review by a moderator (you can then complete it yourself and see exactly what information is being collected).

I'll share the highlights/most interesting stuff with the group once I have enough responses.

Hi Paul,

The issue is that when the population is already constrained to a community such as ours, a lot more becomes PII. If you have nationality, age range, and gender, I could likely make a pretty educated guess. So it could not contain any information of a personal nature whatsoever, especially if you're going to share the results.

Furthermore, generally for scientific studies Anna or I would speak to the legitimacy of the research--here I'd have to disclose instead that this is at their own risk for someone else's personal use. We don't have any rules against this per se, but I am fiercely protective of our group's time, rights, and the space we've created for readers' enjoyment. I get that you're not doing anything nefarious, but it's sort of uncouth to inform 27,000+ fans that have congregated to enjoy books together that you're gonna mine 'em for data that won't be potentially useful to posterity.

I won't stop you, but I hope you think about the potential value you'll gain vs. the frustration you'll sow.

Before I start posting, I'd like to make sure I understand how things work regarding short fiction--it's okay to start a new topic for any story I'd like to talk about? No prior process necessary?

Hi David!

If you want to just tell us what you're reading, not looking for dialogue, you can bring that right to the What Else thread here:

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

If you're looking for buddies to discuss something with, I'd recommend a bit of forethought and communication. Try the Short Fic Buddy Read thread:

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

Then yeah, once you have your buddy(ies), you'd start a thread for the work(s) with any rules you think make sense to discuss nicely (like including page number) and have fun!

So what went 'wrong' with the botm spoiler thread being started at the same time as the first impressions thread experiment?

Ryan wrote: "So what went 'wrong' with the botm spoiler thread being started at the same time as the first impressions thread experiment?"

I think it's going fine?

edit: If you mean that I haven't edited the first impressions posts with links yet, then yes, I've been lazy and haven't done that yet, because I was in bed reading when Allison posted the threads and couldn't do it immediately. That's the secret to my "effiency", doing everything immediately, because if I don't, it never gets done!

edit2: I should probably treat this as an immediate situation and go do it right now :D

edit3: Done :)

Oh. I couldn't see the spoiler thread in my notifications and just assumed they hadn't been made yet. Gotta love the functionality of the GR app.

This time it seems like the app is not to blame! (Shocking, I know.) There are only the two first impressions notifs in the mod feed, I don't know why that is. Maybe there was a notif problem at the time they were posted?

for the monthly book nominations, are short story compilations accepted?

CBRetriever wrote: "for the monthly book nominations, are short story compilations accepted?"

No, sorry! Not unless it tells one story through short stories, like The Gilda Stories

We haven't landed on a way to have meaningful conversation about each short story without spoiling other stories for folks, while still having no more than 2 threads.

ah, cause I had a cute cover for the cute cover challenge

that is very cute!

CBRetriever wrote: "ah, cause I had a cute cover for the cute cover challenge

"

It's a mad Furby!

Since it tends to come up, we've updated the FAQ at the top of this thread to address short work compilations. Keep the questions coming, thanks for the push!

How do you pronounce 'SFFBC'?

Dear Fairy Mod-mother,
Hello. Just curious how often do you do events in the SFFBC group?
I'm new.

Ryan wrote: "How do you pronounce 'SFFBC'?"

I like to keep it nice and simple so I follow Irish pronunciation:

Shu-fea-fuh-byuh-kih.

But American is fine, too: Sigh fy aend FANtasy BUK Kluhb

Ryan wrote: "How do you pronounce 'SFFBC'?"

Esseffeffbeesee. :)

Mark wrote: "Dear Fairy Mod-mother,
Hello. Just curious how often do you do events in the SFFBC group?
I'm new."

Hi Mark! Welcome!

We do not do events. Sorry! We have things for readers like trivia nights and virtual book clubs, but we don't do anything through the event system here.

Hey Mark T. Sneed! I'm no mod but... Every month we have two official group reads that are decided upon via polls. We also have two rereads of books already on the groups shelf.

There's a monthly virtual book chat via zoom where we discuss one of the four books from above.

There are other unofficial SFF book related shenanigans like buddy reads that you can join in or start yourself.

Lol! I was hoping people would try to make an acronym of SFFBC and spit all over their screens.

Becky wrote: "Ryan wrote: "How do you pronounce 'SFFBC'?"

Esseffeffbeesee. :)"

Thanks.

Allison wrote: "Mark wrote: "Dear Fairy Mod-mother,
Hello. Just curious how often do you do events in the SFFBC group?
I'm new."

Hi Mark! Welcome!

We do not do events. Sorry! We have things for readers like triv..."

Thanks.

Just one little opinion! Bunnicula is cute but the group identity is sort of lost, :>( whereas with the old logo it was really definite. :>)

M.L. wrote: "Just one little opinion! Bunnicula is cute but the group identity is sort of lost, :>( whereas with the old logo it was really definite. :>)"

Don't worry, the old one will be back by tomorrow :)

For those wondering why we're the SciFi and Fantasy BunniCula today, here's why:

April 1st, 2019
April 1st, 2020

We also have a Bunnicula buddy read! ^_^

Thanks! I was like who moved my cheese? :)

Question about GR.

When an individual GR member recommends a book to me, I want to put their name in that box as the person who recommended it to me on my review page. But for whatever reason, I can't seem to do it right and make it clickable.

I can't seem to click enter at the right time or whatever I'm supposed to do. Auto-complete comes up with the right person, I click enter, and all that shows up in the box is the bit that I typed. Otoh, if I type the whole name, it's not clickable to their profile. Tell me as if I'm stupid please!

I don’t know and can’t test right now, but if I understand correctly what you’re saying, it sounds like the GR search box. So instead of enter, try clicking on the correct name in the search results.

We have a folder all about GR, it’s OK to start new threads there! 😊