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For several years, Amazon supported two online communities of readers: Shelfari and Goodreads. Both services shared the same mission - helping readers find new books and share their reading - so it made sense to merge them and create a great experience for readers on just one platform: Goodreads. We completed the merge to Goodreads on May 31, 2016.
If you’re not familiar with Goodreads, the core features you loved on Shelfari – keeping track of the books you’ve read and wanted to read, and connecting with fellow readers over your shared love of books – are at the heart of the Goodreads experience. You’ll also be able to enjoy additional services and features including:
1. On-the-go access to your bookshelves and friends’ updates through the Goodreads iOS and Android apps.
2. The ability to use Goodreads on most Kindle e-readers and Fire tablets.
3. Personalized book recommendations from the Goodreads recommendation engine based on books you’ve enjoyed.
4. More ways to share and enjoy your love of reading through the Goodreads Reading Challenge, the ability to write rich text reviews, and enter to win books in our popular Goodreads giveaways program, and
5. Connecting with your favorite authors, including using Goodreads Ask the Author feature.
If you’d like to request your Shelfari data in a .csv file, submit your request through our contact us form here. Please ensure that your email address on the request is the same address as was used on your Shelfari account. For account security reasons, we are unable to send your information to any address other than the one on your Shelfari account.
Here’s how to delete your account on the desktop site:
1. Click on your profile picture in the header and select Account Settings from the drop-down menu.
2. Navigate to the Settings tab.
3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click "delete my account."
4. On the next page, confirm that you'd like to remove it.
You can also do this on the mobile site by navigating to your Settings from the hamburger menu and selecting “Account.” Click on “Delete My Account,” then tap “Yes, delete my account” to confirm.
If you are not receiving emails from Goodreads, please check your bulk or spam folder. Also make sure to add no-reply@mail.goodreads.com to your contacts to help ensure deliverability. Making sure your email address is verified in your account may also help.
To verify your email address, go to your "edit profile" page and select the "settings" tab. If your email address isn't verified, you'll see a red message next to it - click "re-send verification email".
If you've done all that, email notifications such as the friend update email, daily group digests, or message notifications may be blocked by your ISP or email provider, so you may want to contact them.
To change the frequency (daily or weekly) or unsubscribe from the Goodreads update email or any other email, click on edit profile at the top right corner of Goodreads, then click the "emails" tab. All email settings can be controlled on this page.
Here’s how to edit your email address on the desktop site:
1) Click on your profile picture and select Account Settings from the drop-down menu.
2) Navigate to your Settings tab and edit your email address in the “email address” field.
3) Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “Save account settings.”
You can also do this on the mobile site by navigating to your Settings from the hamburger menu. Click on “Account” and then select “Email.” On the resulting screen, you can add, remove, or change your email address. Then click on “Save” to update your progress.
Privacy settings on Goodreads are found by clicking on your profile picture and selecting Account Settings from the drop-down menu. On the Profile tab, you can select your location, age, and birthday privacy. On the Settings tab you can select who can view your profile, last name, email address, and who can send you messages. If your profile is private, only your friends can see your profile. This includes your profile data, bookshelves, profile comments, and your friend list. Your first name and image thumbnail are still available in some areas of site. Your book reviews will also still be available on each book page. Note also that author profiles cannot be made private.
Goodreads uses a variety of ad networks to serve advertisements on the site, which means occasionally things slip through that we can't control. We do try our best to keep our ads relevant, appropriate, and useful to members.
We ask our ad networks not to include disruptive ads, but sometimes one slips through. Please help us by reporting any ads that match the following:
* Auto-expanding or auto-sound ads
* Ads that expand or play sound on mouse-over (on-click is fine)
* Ads that contain nudity or other offensive material
If you find one, please send a screenshot and the ad's destination url to
support@goodreads.com, and we'll do our best to block it as soon as possible.
1) Go to your edit profile page.
2) Select the emails tab.
3) At the top of the page, find the option titled: "Email me new reviews from friends."
4) Select the option for "never."
5) Scroll down until you see "save email settings," and click that button to save your changes.
We take spam very seriously, and we do our best to stop it, but we can't always prevent it all. We appreciate users' assistance in bringing spam to our attention.
The best way to let us know that a review, message, comment, or other item is spam is to flag it. If for some reason the item cannot be flagged, you may also use the contact us page to let us know about a problematic post or user.
You can sign up for a Quote of the Day email subscription on the main Quote of the Day page. The "subscribe" button should appear in the lower right-hand corner (unless you are already subscribed).
You can also subscribe by visiting your "My Account" page and clicking on the "emails" tab. Scroll down to nearly the bottom of the page, where there will be a "Send me the daily Quote of the Day email" option (underneath the "newsletter and other mailers" header). Make sure you "save email settings" before navigating away from the page.
Members who have not yet added friends will receive "Recent Updates from the Community" in lieu of friend updates on their homepage. As soon as you start adding friends, these community updates will be replaced by updates from your friends.
If you are trying to sign in or sign up for Goodreads and are getting a message "Sorry, your session timed out - please try again. Please also make sure you have cookies enabled.", this is an indication that your browser is not accepting cookies from Goodreads. Please make sure that cookies are enabled for all domains - or if you restrict certain domains make sure that Goodreads is whitelisted.
To change your app settings, click on your profile picture and select Account Settings from the drop-down menu. Then click on the Apps tab and follow the instructions. You can enable or disable each available app according to your preferences.
Goodreads has future plans to translate the site into other languages. Stay tuned!
Currently, there are a few languages in the settings area that you can choose: English, Spanish, French, and German. These languages have very little if any translation to date, but you may see little things translated, such as month names in forms. We hope to build upon this going forward.
As our top lists are organized by country, users can't participate unless they choose to make their location visible to everyone. Otherwise, showing that someone ranks in the "top readers of the US" would give away the user's residence in the US, even though the user had chosen to keep his/her location private.
If you'd like to be eligible, you can change your location settings on your "edit profile" page. The stats should start showing up on your profile as soon as they refresh (about once per week).
Our goal is to maintain a welcoming space for all of our members. If you notice abusive or inappropriate content on the site, you can flag it to our attention or contact us. To flag, click the gray flag icon next to the content in question and follow the prompts. Please note that it’s not currently possible to flag content on the mobile site or apps.
Please keep the following in mind:
You’re welcome to flag any content that might violate our Terms of Service. Our team carefully reviews flagged items on a case-by-case basis, and we only take action on any items that violate our policies. While we may not be able to respond to each individual flag, please rest assured that each item is reviewed by a staff member, and we will follow up as necessary.If you accidentally flag something that isn’t abusive, don't worry - we can tell. All flagged items are personally reviewed by a staff member, and only content that violates our rules is removed.
In the past, some settings on the Emails tab of your Account Settings were unclear about what notifications they actually corresponded to, and this wasn't a great experience for our members. We've updated our notifications settings to be more transparent. The change has two main components:
1. We've updated the name of some settings to better reflect what they actually control. For example, “Comments on my answer for Goodreads Q&A;” has become “Comments on a Goodreads Q&A; that I’ve answered or commented on,” since this setting controls both comments on a user’s own answer and answers a user comments on for Reader and Author Q&As.;
2. We've split notifications for comments on your own activity (shelvings and progress updates) from comments on other people's activity that you're following. This is controlled by two settings: "Comments on my shelving or progress update" and "Comments on an activity or review I've commented on."
Content that contains hate speech or threatening language violates our rules and is not tolerated. If you receive threatening, abusive, or unwanted messages or comments, we suggest blocking the user. When you block someone, they can no longer comment on your reviews or send you messages. Their activity will also be hidden for you. To block a user, navigate to their profile, scroll down to the bottom, and click “block this member.”
If the situation escalates in any way, please contact us and we’ll evaluate the situation and take appropriate action. Please also feel free to flag any content to our attention that violates our Terms of Service.
Here’s how to add your profile picture to the desktop site:
1) Hover over your profile picture in the header and select Account Settings from the drop-down menu.
2) On the right side of the page, click on "choose file" (it's under the brown "no photo" box).
3) Browse your files to select an image.
4) Click on "upload photo."
You can also add or edit your profile picture on the mobile site by navigating to your Settings from the hamburger menu and selecting “Profile.” Clicking on the option underneath the profile icon will provide you with options to “Take Photo,” “Choose” an existing picture, or “Delete Profile Picture.” Choose the relevant option and follow the prompts.
Yes, you have to be thirteen years old or older to sign up for Goodreads. This is a requirement of all social networking sites. Federal law (COPPA) has dictated that the legal age of consent to participate in a social networking site is thirteen years old.
1. First, create a Facebook Fan Page for your group, if you don't already have one.
2. Next, connect to Goodreads using Facebook connect or add the Goodreads Facebook App
3. Navigate to the Goodreads App Page
4. Click on the gear to the top right of the page.
5. Select "Add to my Page" from the menu.
6. Navigate back to your Facebook Page and select the Goodreads box at the top.
7. Select type Group Page and choose your group. You may only select a group you are a moderator of. Save and you're done!
Here’s how to edit or remove your profile picture:
1. Click on your profile picture and select Account Settings from the drop-down list in the top right corner of Goodreads.
2. Below the picture you will see "delete/change photo." Click on that to delete the existing photo. You will then have the option to upload a new photo.
3. Browse to upload your new image and scroll down to click "Save Profile Settings."
You can also add or edit your profile picture on the mobile site by navigating to your Settings from the hamburger menu and selecting “Profile.” Clicking on the option underneath the profile icon will provide you with options to “Take Photo,” “Choose” an existing picture, or “Delete Profile Picture.” Choose the relevant option and follow the prompts.
You can go here and click the "delete" link next to the stored card.
To add a book catalog (bookseller, library, or other online catalog), you'll want to fill out the form here. The directions for filling out the form are on the right side of the page.
Once your link is approved, it will be listed in the options for members to customize their links. Links are shown in the order of the number of people who have added them.
Note that only fully comprehensive catalogs that support ISBN-search will be accepted. A publisher website that only lists a few books should not be submitted.
If you are getting the message "Email has already been taken" while trying to sign in, it is likely you are trying to sign up rather than sign in. Please click here to sign in. If you haven't signed up for Goodreads yet, this means someone has registered with your email address. To login to that account, use the forgot password page to retrieve your password and login.
