Why so hard to write a Goodreads review?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but there's something not quite right about Goodreads's review-writing workflow.
I wanted to review The Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (wonderful book, BTW), but I couldn't figure out how to do that. I looked all over the book's page, clicked around, searched the page for relevant keywords, and still couldn't find any way to do it.
Finally I clicked on the five stars I wanted to give the book, and only then was I prompted to write a review. If I hadn't done that, I never would have been able to do so!
I suspect that if Goodreads made it easy to write a review, they'd have about twenty times as many of them.
Anyone else experienced this problem?
I wanted to review The Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (wonderful book, BTW), but I couldn't figure out how to do that. I looked all over the book's page, clicked around, searched the page for relevant keywords, and still couldn't find any way to do it.
Finally I clicked on the five stars I wanted to give the book, and only then was I prompted to write a review. If I hadn't done that, I never would have been able to do so!
I suspect that if Goodreads made it easy to write a review, they'd have about twenty times as many of them.
Anyone else experienced this problem?
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Aug 29, 2015 11:15AM
I don't have this problem. Any time I change a book to my "read" list, it automatically pops up a window prompting me to write a review.
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Dharma wrote: "I don't have this problem. Any time I change a book to my "read" list, it automatically pops up a window prompting me to write a review."But that's a popup, right, Dharma? You have to take an action to make that happen. What if you want to come back at some later time and just write a review? Or am I missing something?
Dharma wrote: "I don't have this problem. Any time I change a book to my "read" list, it automatically pops up a window prompting me to write a review."Okay, I see what's going on here. If you add a book to your shelf, say you've finished it, then you get that popup. That's not generally how I do things. I usually do a helicopter thing where I swoop in and find a book I want to rate. Most of the time I don't add the books to my shelf first.
I was confused by the set up at first as well Paula and like you stumbled onto their process. I also found I lost the screen when I was writing the review so prepare it in "Word" then cut and paste it in. Saves on time and my stress level.Only my currently reading list prompts me to write a review...my to read list would be too long.
Wendy wrote: "I was confused by the set up at first as well Paula and like you stumbled onto their process. I also found I lost the screen when I was writing the review so prepare it in "Word" then cut and paste..."I used to be a systems analyst, Wendy, and I honestly think workflow could be improved about a million percent in just about every system. It's not that difficult, really. It's just a matter of awareness.
I guess I just don't use Goodreads the way it was designed. Oh well.
Nice to know others suffer the same problem.
