Remove a book from my reading list on goodreads

ThereвЂ™s glorious collection of Goodreads fails around the search bar functionality and in a world of toxic Twitter hate, I needed a chuckle. This is 2020 and thereвЂ™s literally no reason the search bar on any website should behave this badly.ДЄside вЂ“ for some BookCommunity!Humor, check out the Twitter page. It only knows what youвЂ™re talking about it you type it exactly. While itвЂ™s a little better now, itвЂ™s still hilariously bad. LibraryThing does this and they are also a book review and cataloguing site вЂ“ thereвЂ™s no reason Goodreads canвЂ™t add it.ДЄ month or so ago, Goodreads announced they were updating their search bar functionality. And then, what? If youвЂ™re smack in the middle between two ratings, do you round up and give it more credit than it has earned? Do you round down and penalize it because the system canвЂ™t accommodate? I personally round up, but I appreciate systems that use a more precise method of rating. Most other ratings platforms offer half-star ratings, and those ratings are particularly useful for items when they are really good, but not perfect. As for me, I have typos in my bio and am torn between wanting to fix it, wanting them to fix things so I can fix those and add images, and wondering if anyone reads the bios anyway? For now, we remain in will they/wonвЂ™t they limbo. At the very least, the Goodreads team ought to put it out there they they are not going fix this and we will all move on with our lives. While I respect their goal of reducing spam, this is a bandaid that also hurts the users and is not being addressed. They are not the only social platform to impose this restriction, but since we had it before, itвЂ™s a bit painful to have it removed. Essentially, Goodreads has turned off the opportunity to link our platforms. For us book bloggers and those who use other platforms, this is devastating. TheyвЂ™ve been up and down here and there, but mostly theyвЂ™ve been consistently down.

Back in March 2017, to fight bots and spam, the Goodreads team turned off URLs in profiles. Goodreads dances around this issue, and there are several diligent users who have asked about this, trying to keep the issue aliveвЂ¦ butвЂ¦? It doesnвЂ™t look like this is going to change anytime soon.

From fixes to expanding functionality, IвЂ™m sure weвЂ™ve all run into something we wish Goodreads would change. There are a lot of opportunities for Goodreads to improve their platform. In as far as our electronic cataloging and social connectivity goes, Goodreads seems to remain our prime option.Д«ut that doesnвЂ™t mean itвЂ™s perfect. Others, like Shelfari, have been absorbed by the giant gelatinous cube that is the Amazon conglomerate. ThereвЂ™s really no perfect equivalent вЂ“ LibraryThing, Libib, Litsy, FictionDB are all fine enough, but their design, functionality, and/or databases simply cannot compare to Goodreads. We all use it, even though it frustrates us. I know book blogger posts wailing on Goodreads are a dime a dozen.

Remove a book from my reading list on goodreads