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The Kindle Notes & Highlights Member page allows you to view all of your notes and highlights in one central location. To access it, you can click on My Books, and then click on “Kindle Notes & Highlights” beneath “Your Reading Activity.” You can review the visibility of your notes and highlights from this page. Simply click on "View your notes and highlights” next to the book title. On the next page, make individual notes or highlights visible by toggling to green on the “Visible” button directly to its right.
If you’ve made your notes and highlights visible to others, they can access your KNH Member page by navigating to the notes and highlights page of any book you’ve annotated, and clicking on “[Your name] notes and highlights” in the upper left corner. If your notes and highlights are set to private, other members will not have access to your KNH page.
To remove a book from your shelf, click on the My Books link at the top of Goodreads, make sure you are on the 'table' view (an option underneath the "My Books" search bar), then click the "x" to the right of the book you'd like to remove. You can also click on the book, click 'edit my review', then click 'remove from my books' at the very bottom of the page.
When a book is removed from your shelves, it will also delete your review.
Once you make a Kindle highlight public, click on the percent link directly to its left to navigate to the unique page for that highlight. You can then share that URL with anyone you’d like. If you choose to make your highlight private later, it won’t be accessible via the link anymore.
There are built-in constraints in Kindle Notes & Highlights designed to protect against sharing too much of a book. We’re still looking to monitor and adapt this as we improve the feature. You can still see your entire highlight directly from your Kindle device.
Not at all! You can actually create Kindle Notes & Highlights using the free Kindle Cloud Reader on any web browser. You’re also welcome to use the free native Kindle apps for iOS and Android to take notes or add highlights while you read.
Kindle Notes & Highlights are always private unless you choose to make them visible to those who can view your Goodreads profile. To make your notes and highlights visible, simply navigate to your review and click on “Kindle Notes & Highlights” underneath your read dates. From this notes and highlights page, click on “Make all visible.” To hide all of your notes and highlights for a book, click on “Hide all” at the top right of your notes and highlights page. You can also make individual notes or highlights visible by toggling to green on the “Visible” button directly to its right.
You can always change who can view your Goodreads profile by visiting the Settings tab of your Account Settings and editing your preferences underneath “Who Can View My Profile.”
You can do this on mobile by navigating to your Settings from the hamburger menu and selecting “Privacy.” Click on “Edit” across from “Profile” and select “Friends Only” from the options. Select “Done” to save your edit.
Kindle Notes & Highlights are linked directly to your Kindle ebooks. This means that you can’t add highlights from physical books to your reviews on Goodreads, unfortunately. If you also own or have borrowed the Kindle edition, however, you’re always welcome to highlight specific passages from your Kindle device or reading application, which you can then make visible on Goodreads. In addition, you can add and edit notes directly from Goodreads, which will then sync to your ebook. To do so, simply navigate to your highlight, click on “Add note,” and click on “Save” once you’re done entering your text. To edit a note, click on “Edit” beneath the note, and then “Save.”
You can! Just click on “Delete” on the right side of the note or highlight. When you remove a note or highlight on Goodreads, it will also be removed from your Kindle device or Kindle reading application, and can’t be restored.
Each author name is unique and has its own profile. Sometimes various data sources use slightly different spellings of an author name (e.g. JK Rowling vs J.K. Rowling vs Joanne Kathleen Rowling). To merge two author profiles, edit the data for the profile that should be discarded, and change the name to be the exact same spelling (copy/pasting helps here) of the profile that it should be merged into. All books will be associated with the new author. If there is doubt as to the correct spelling, we recommend checking The Library of Congress.
Librarians can only merge unclaimed author profiles. To merge a Goodreads Author profile, request staff assistance by posting in this thread. It’s especially important to do this when there are fans or quotes attributed to the unclaimed author account. Renaming the author on each book page will not merge the profiles; it will only move the book to the correct profile and leave the other profile intact on the site. Merging the profiles will also merge quotes and fans.
Occasionally you may come across an author profile that encompasses two or more authors of the same name. In order to separate these authors and their respective books you will need to identify which books belong to which author. Once you have, leave one author alone and for the second, go into the edit page of each of their books and add an additional space between their first and last name.
This will create a new author profile for the second author.
If by chance there is a third author of the same name (which has happened), simply add a third space between the author's first and last name.
Example:
Catherine^Anderson
Catherine^^Anderson
Catherine^^^Anderson
When separating authors with middle initials in their names, please place additional spaces after the middle initial:
Catherine^H.^Anderson
Catherine^H.^^Anderson
Catherine^H.^^^Anderson
Single-name Authors: The preferred method of separating single-name authors is to add additional information to their profile, like a last name or an initial. However, if this is not available, an alternate option to separate the author’s books from the default profile is to add a space followed by a period to the author name.
Catherine^.
Note: The ^ = 1 space and is just used to demonstrate the number of spaces.
Also please note that any new books by the authors of that name will be entered into the main profile by default. They will have to be edited once they are added to Goodreads to shift them to the right profile.
Note: If an author has a common name, they may choose to differentiate their names from other authors in the database in other ways. Acceptable options include:
* inserting a middle initial or middle name
* lengthening a first initial to a full first name
These minor changes are accepted practice for ease of maintaining accurate book lists on each author profile.
The rules for combining book editions are listed below, and are also posted on the right side of the combine page for each author. These rules have been decided as a collaborative effort between the Goodreads staff and the members in the Goodreads Librarians group.
do combine:
don't combine:
Goodreads currently allows up to 50 authors per book. Authors should be listed in the order they appear on the book cover. If there is no cover or covers of various editions differ, use alphabetical order.
For compilations that include both editors and authors, please list the editors first and then other contributors.
Please note that editors should only be added for records like anthologies and reference materials. Novels and other works of fiction should not have editors listed.
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The Goodreads Author Program is designed for published authors to have a presence on Goodreads. Goodreads Authors can connect with fans, list giveaways, add excerpts of their writing, post upcoming events, and add photos and videos of themselves.
In order to join our Author Program, you must have your books listed on Goodreads. If you can't find them by a title or ISBN search, you can manually add your books to Goodreads here.
Please note that you’ll be required to have an account which is at least 1 day old and a verified email address. If you've just joined the site, please contact us at support (at) goodreads (dot) com – we'd be happy to help!
Please check the librarian changelogs of both suspected duplicates before merging to determine if either cover has been deleted/replaced against Goodreads policies. If you have any questions about whether an edition falls into this category, please post a new thread in the Librarians Group.
If a particular edition is listed twice, it is appropriate to merge the two entries into one. Please do not delete an edition of a book just because it does not have an ISBN. Some older books that members manually add will not have ISBNs. Please check carefully and err on the side of not deleting a book edition.
Note that merging two editions deletes the less popular edition and merges all reviews into the more popular edition. This is different from combining editions, which is where you can mark one version of a book as the same as another.
When you find a duplicate and you know which edition it was meant to be, this is how to merge that duplicate with the actual edition:
1. Separate the duplicate and its actual edition from any other editions of that book.
2. Combine them just with each other.
3. Click 'delete this book' at the bottom of the edit book page. Note that this only works for books shelved fewer than five times. It will merge with its actual edition because this is the most popular (only) other edition available in that combination.
4. Re-combine the actual edition with the other editions of the book.
The Goodreads self-serve advertising product is an affordable and practical way to reach the broader Goodreads community. The product runs on a cost-per-click (CPC) model, where you determine how much to invest in the overall campaign and sets a bid per click. Ads consist of a small image, a title, a description, and a destination URL, which you can set up directly via the advertising dashboard on Goodreads. You can create an unlimited number of ads within a campaign at no extra charge.
We welcome participation from organizations such as book stores, and we invite all published authors to join the Goodreads Author Program. However, spam and unsolicited advertising of any kind will not be tolerated and could lead to the permanent deletion of your Goodreads account. Please see our author guidelines for more details on appropriate site usage.
Posting of legitimate book reviews from organizations or individuals is the intended use of the site, but no review should have any content with an intent to sell. Goodreads members recognize this as spam, so this tactic is not a good strategy for gaining new customers. In contrast, becoming an active participant in literary discussion on Goodreads will win you friends and new readers.
Find more advice and tips on the Authors & Advertisers Blog.
In order to combine editions that have multiple authors listed, the editions must have the same author listed in the first author field. Once that is done, you can then combine from the first listed author's combine page, and ONLY the first author's combine page.
* There should be a period after each initial.
* There should be no spaces between consecutive initials.
* There should be one space (excepting disambiguation) between an initial and a non-initial.
Examples:
* J.K. Rowling
* J.R.R. Tolkien
* Philip K. Dick
* F. Scott Fitzgerald
* George R.R. Martin
If you'd like to export your books from your previous kindle.amazon.com account, please contact us.
The data exported from kindle.amazon.com does not include reading dates, so that information won't be included in your Goodreads import. You can manually add the date added and date read for any book on your shelves. Here's how:
- Click on My Books in the header to navigate to your shelves
- Use the search bar at the top right of your shelves to find the book in question
- Under the date read or date added column header for that specific book listing, click on the edit link (if you don't see a date read or date added column, click shelf settings at the top of the page and select the appropriate checkbox)
- Add the desired date in the pop-up menu that appears, and then click on save
Only social suffixes are used. This includes Jr., Sr., and Roman numerals. There is no punctuation between the name and the suffix.
Examples:
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Andre Dubus III
Other suffixes and prefixes are not included with author names:
*Academic degrees (BS, MS, PhD, MD, DDS, Prof, Dr. etc.) should not be used
*Honorary degrees (KBE, LLD, Sir etc.) should not be used
*Professional (Esq, CPA, CFA etc.) should not be used
Examples:
Diana Derval (not Prof. Diana Derval)
Robert C. Atkins (not Dr. Robert C. Atkins)
The only exceptions are those where the author is known primarily by a name that includes the honorific:
Example:
Mahatma Gandhi (not Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)
The beta app is a preview of the new Goodreads for Android app. While in beta, you may notice some bugs or missing features. We'll be working on these issues and releasing regular updates.
Eventually, the new app will replace the current Goodreads for Android app in the Google Play store. Until that happens, Goodreads users are welcome to try out the new experience and give feedback by downloading the beta app here.
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On January 9, 2018, we launched a new Giveaways program initially available to entrants who are U.S. residents.
Starting on October 9, 2018, authors and publishers can now create print book giveaways for up to 100 copies with the option of making the giveaway open to U.S residents, Canadian residents, or both. Kindle Direct Publishing authors and publishers with ebooks available in the U.S. can run giveaways for up to 100 copies of Kindle ebooks for entrants who are U.S. residents.
You can read about each package here.
Ask and answer questions about books!
You can pose questions to the Goodreads community with Reader Q&A;, or ask your favorite author a question with Ask the Author.
Here’s more about both:
Reader Q&A;
Readers can ask and answer questions about a specific book and “like” their favorite answers. To ask a question, visit the book’s page on Goodreads. (Use the search box at the top of the site to search for any book title.) Scroll down the book page, and you will see a space called Reader Q&A.; You can also select “More Questions about…” to view other questions Goodreads members have asked. If someone answers your question, you’ll be notified on Goodreads and by email.
Ask the Author
Readers can ask questions and receive answers from their favorite authors. To ask a question, visit the author’s profile page. (Use the search box at the top of the site to search for any author.) Scroll down the author profile, and if the author is a member of Goodreads who is accepting questions you will see a space called Ask the Author. You can also select "More answers from…" to view all of the questions the author has answered in the past. If the author answers your question, the question and answer will appear on the author’s profile as well as in the newsfeeds of the author’s followers, and you will be notified on your Goodreads homepage and by email.
No, you can’t. If you’re looking for a great mobile reading experience that offers the world's largest catalog of ebooks, including thousands of free ebooks, we recommend the Kindle app, available for free from the App Store:
If you’re looking for a place to discover a great book, a place to discuss your favorite books, or a place to get in touch with your favorite author, Goodreads is the place to be.
And if you're in the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom, you can Preview most books within the app to help decide if it's the right one for you. To see if a book has a preview available, just look for the preview button on the book page:
If a book series is not packaged by the publisher as one item (such as a boxed set), the series should not be created as a fake book. Any user-created series objects should be merged into the boxed set for the series (if available) or the first book of the series (if no boxed set or similar publisher-created series item is available).
* Always think twice before changing existing data. The accuracy of the information in our database is important, and changes you make to the book data will be reflected in members’ shelvings.
* Replacing or removing the cover of an existing edition, including the covers of advance reader copies, is in violation of Goodreads policy. Please see information on how to add an alternate cover edition if the book has been released with a new cover.
* If you are unsure why something is listed the way it is, you can check the "librarian change log" for the book (linked on the left side of the page, above "add a librarian note"). The log will tell you what edits were previously done on the book. If no prior edits are listed, it is likely fine to make the changes you feel necessary. If there are other edits, you may want to read through the edits to see what was changed, and if any of the changes contradict a change you planned to make, you can post to the Goodreads Librarians Group to ask for help in finding a solution.
* If you are concerned about particular edits, please use the flag feature on the book’s librarian change log. This will bring the edits you’re concerned about to the attention of a staff member, who can take appropriate action as needed.
Here's how to edit or remove the read date on a book that you've already read:
- Click on My Books in the header to navigate to your shelves.
- Use the search bar at the top of your shelves to find the book in question.
- Click on the edit link in the last column on the right for that book.
- Scroll down to the Dates read subheading in the pop-up that appears, and edit the relevant date.
Alternatively, click on the X next to the set of dates if you'd like to remove them, and then click on Save at the bottom of the page.
If you'd like to remove the book from your shelves entirely, you can find the book on your My Books page and click the gray X on the right hand side of the book listing.
