Crossroads discussion

So lets get talking! Anything on your mind besides the dismal move?

I haven't had my books moved across, but this discussion panel seems similar, except the html bold didn't work in my last posting.. Many bugs to kill, at the start.

Noticed my new photo is part of my FB header ?? Also when looking at a book and wanting to purchase, it offered kobo,bookdepository but I couldn't find an amazon link..

If this is the wrong thread, please tell me.. Otherwise, I don't see a problem, but I am known as Polly.. (A Pollyanna)

Lesley wrote: "Noticed my new photo is part of my FB header ?? Also when looking at a book and wanting to purchase, it offered kobo,bookdepository but I couldn't find an amazon link..

If this is the wrong thread..."

I wonder if it doesn't show all the links because you are in Australia. I get Amazon, kindle, a list of stores and libraries

Booknblues wrote: "So lets get talking! Anything on your mind besides the dismal move?"

Group home page does look good. It's nice to see something familiar. I've been spending time updating my leafmarks shelves. Can I help you figure out how it works over there. To put it differently, could you use another administrator?

Jgrace wrote: Can I help you figure out how it works over there. To put it differently, could you use another administrator? ."

Do you think we should try to set up a crossroads group there as well?

Truthfully I couldn't even find you there are figure out how to find friends, but I didn't spend long there as I wanted to get started doing things here.

Booknblues wrote: "Jgrace wrote: Can I help you figure out how it works over there. To put it differently, could you use another administrator? ."

Do you think we should try to set up a crossroads group there as wel..."
I'm JudithG over there. I'm far from an expert. I haven't really done groups at that site. I used it as a backup for my books and reviews. Which is also just about all I've done on Goodreads. I could start a Crossroads 2.0 and we could figure it out as we go. If we give a trial in both places we'll know what works best. I just don't want all the confusion to fall to you alone.

BnB, its the mystery of HOW they accessed my FB photo, I meant. I didn't load it.. Apart from the annoying ads, I'm loving the connections of books I think I will order.

Bnb, re the list of bookshops... Every time I go on Amazon, they invite me to transfer to Amazon Oz, so that might be the solution... However I usually only use it to check before I order from my library; the reviews here on G, seem adequate, and the search for recommendations is marvellous.. I think this will suit me well. (I was even able to load a photo..) Still awaiting the arrivals of my shelf, but am sure that will come.

Lesley wrote: "BnB, its the mystery of HOW they accessed my FB photo, I meant. I didn't load it.. Apart from the annoying ads, I'm loving the connections of books I think I will order." Do you sign in with your Facebook account?

Everyone take it easy :) You just might like GR. I been on for a while and I love it. :D I'm also a moderator for a challenge group here on GR. So Booknblues, if there's anything I can help you with I'll be very happy too.

The categories you had on Shelfari should do just fine on GR. I'm looking forward to leaving comments on Mapping Your Reading.

One of my favourite things on GR is my Read Bookshelf.
I've listed my started and finished dates, pages I've read, rating, etc... and I love that I can view my reviews quickly. Which all comes in handy on certain challenges.
I also love that I can have a monthly tbr bookshelf and list the books I would like to read for that particular month.
Though the one thing I will truly miss is hitting the reply button and seeing all those comments on an individual thread.

Be a liitle bit patience. You may like GR after all. :D

Jgrace wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Jgrace wrote: Can I help you figure out how it works over there. To put it differently, could you use another administrator? ."

Do you think we should try to set up a crossroads..."

Setting up a group is relatively easy at LM - I set up a private one-woman group to store my lists a year ago. Click on community, then click on groups, and create a group is a choice upper rightish. You "subscribe" under the logo to joinan existing group. Here is the link for the PBT group if you want to get a feel for the discussion format.

https://www.leafmarks.com/lm/#/discus...

If you click on "friends" at the top of the home page, you'll find a prompt to search for friends on the right. I'm Denizen there and changed the avatar yesterday to my Shelfari Paradise Tanager. All my friends are Shelfari people except for two, I think - PBT, Historical Fiction, and Crossroads - so just friend all of them.

So Booknblues, if there's anything I can help you with I'll be very happy too.

Thanks for that, Diana. I will take you up on that. I need to figure out my priorities and what I really need help with and I will be asking you some questions.

Denizen wrote: "If you click on "friends" at the top of the home page, you'll find a prompt to search for friends on the right. ."

Thanks, Denizen. I will go over there later today.

Diana S wrote: "Everyone take it easy :) You just might like GR. I been on for a while and I love it. :D I'm also a moderator for a challenge group here on GR. So Booknblues, if there's anything I can help you wit..."

I love it already, and will even more when my shelf from shelfari, gets here..

WHEW I now have 30 books in my to be read list, from recommendations.. I need to read and choose which to order.

Still no sign of my shelfari books coming over..

I'm so glad Lesley that your loving GR. :)

I think that we will be able to set up our group quite nicely here, Diana. I know I had several days of panic and I am going to really miss Shelfari, but I think we are going to be stronger having to make changes and adjustments and actually learn some new skills.

I'm glad you feel better about the change. :)

Most of my books did come over.. 38 didn't but no matter; no time to see why. I am still trying to match up the email addresses as I still don't get the option of amazon, after I have looked up a book.. Something to do with Fb, for some unknown reason???

I will stay here; it suits me the way the recommendations work..

After the tennis (Australian Open), I will look for like minded other people.. Want to find people who like most of my favourites.

Diana S wrote: "I'm glad you feel better about the change. :)"
I am. I am not entirely happy about it, but I feel that we will cope quite well and maybe in the end we will like Goodreads more.

I am now REALLY happy... Another group told me where to find the 'book links' tab (account settings) and just added Amazon, having to adjust from country showing as au, and changed it to usa.

sigh, all my links now enable me to move from site to site..off to watch the tennis on tv..

Lesley wrote: "I am now REALLY happy... Another group told me where to find the 'book links' tab (account settings) and just added Amazon, having to adjust from country showing as au, and changed it to usa.

sigh..."

Hurray!

A small whine.. I need to find out how to change the email discussion posts, so they are automatically able to be read in my mail handling program rather than the GR screed saying :
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Lesley wrote: "A small whine.. I need to find out how to change the email discussion posts, so they are automatically able to be read in my mail handling program rather than the GR screed saying :
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hmm. ....I don't really know you can edit the way you are notified, but it looks to me as if you have to visit . If you can see where it says "You are following this discussion (instant email) edit" at the bottom you can change things there.

It's not a big deal, I think I need to restrict the groups/topics I get emails from, first of all, so that I never again get 41 emails..

On the plus side, something I wasted months on, is getting recognition of being an author in Shelfari, (never happened) and having an authors page instantly here on GR..

Thanks.

Denizen wrote: "Jgrace wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Jgrace wrote: Can I help you figure out how it works over there. To put it differently, could you use another administrator? ."

Do you think we should try to set ..."

There is one problem; in order to join an 18 and up group over there you have to enter a FULL birthdate, which I'm uncomfortable with, even if it is kept private. I don't mind birth year as much.

Karin wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Jgrace wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Jgrace wrote: Can I help you figure out how it works over there. To put it differently, could you use another administrator? ."

Do you think we sh..."

Make up a birthday.

Booknblues wrote: "Karin wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Jgrace wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Jgrace wrote: Can I help you figure out how it works over there. To put it differently, could you use another administrator? ."

Do y..."

Yes, I think that's exactly what I'll do, use a cyber birthdate. My children are all old enough to prove I'm over 18 (unless, of course, I had my eldest before I was born.)

what-chicago-is-reading ' this was in a column during a compare books I did. What does it mean?

Karin wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Karin wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Jgrace wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Jgrace wrote: Can I help you figure out how it works over there. To put it differently, could you use another admi..."

What an opener to this comment! It gives me a giggle!

Denizen wrote: "Karin wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Karin wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Jgrace wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Jgrace wrote: Can I help you figure out how it works over there. To put it differently, could you us..."


We all wrote!

I like the new topics that you've posted here. Just wish I had more books read to post about.

Jgrace wrote: "I like the new topics that you've posted here. Just wish I had more books read to post about."

Thanks, I want to get it and leafmarks put together a bit this week and then perhaps we can do a little recruiting.

I keep obsessing over my shelf.

Jgrace wrote: "I like the new topics that you've posted here. Just wish I had more books read to post about."

Me too. And there's also that real life stuff.

Booknblues wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Karin wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Karin wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Jgrace wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Jgrace wrote: Can I help you figure out how it works over there. To put it different..."

We're all just budding writers here!

So...hi y'all.

I requested a download of all of my Shelfari books, and separately, but the same day, requested that all my Shelfari books be moved to GoodReads.

On Jan 20, my downloaded files showed up, but I'm still waiting for my move to GoodReads. I've got 1176 books on my shelf, and I don't think they're really going to send them...

mef wrote: "On Jan 20, my downloaded files showed up, but I'm still waiting for my move to GoodReads. I've got 1176 books on my shelf, and I don't think they're really going to send them... "

It is a good idea to wait. Mine were delivered fairly quickly, but it deleted some work that I had done on my own and removed reviews, so I was seriously bummed.

As it is I am missing about 500 books and I finally figured out I'm missing most of the 1990's, which was a long time ago, but I like having that online record. I do have record of those years on index cards in a box somewhere...

It is good to see you here mef!

Booknblues wrote: "mef wrote: "On Jan 20, my downloaded files showed up, but I'm still waiting for my move to GoodReads. I've got 1176 books on my shelf, and I don't think they're really going to send them... "

It i..."
Bnb, I also had to go through and alter many 'read' , books from their label of 'to be read'.. Many of the books we have in common, are showing in your list as to be read, but I feel sure some have in fact been read. Forgive me if this is NOMB..

Lesley, I'm still straightening out my shelf.

Booknblues wrote: "Lesley, I'm still straightening out my shelf." Yes, I just wondered if this had happened to anyone else..Thanks.

Does anybody know whether you can upload to GoodReads from the spreadsheets that Shelfari sends for your own records? Has anybody tried it?

mef wrote: "Does anybody know whether you can upload to GoodReads from the spreadsheets that Shelfari sends for your own records? Has anybody tried it?"
Yes you can. It worked fairly well though I had to re-rate some of the books I read.

Storyheart wrote: "mef wrote: "Does anybody know whether you can upload to GoodReads from the spreadsheets that Shelfari sends for your own records? Has anybody tried it?"
Yes you can. It worked fairly well though I ..."

I also had to get them to re-send the 'stars' and then update many titles that I had read, but that were denoted as 'want to read'...

Lesley wrote: "Storyheart wrote: "mef wrote: "Does anybody know whether you can upload to GoodReads from the spreadsheets that Shelfari sends for your own records? Has anybody tried it?"
Yes you can. It worked fa..."

I already did that quite some time ago, thank goodness and it did work but it still took some time to straighten things out as some stuff got lost on the way.

Hi to all, by the way, haven't been around much lately, sorry. My computer is playing up, so I'm not on it very often anymore. I just wanted to check in though to let you know that I haven't forgotten you x

Jules wrote: "Hi to all, by the way, haven't been around much lately, sorry. My computer is playing up, so I'm not on it very often anymore. I just wanted to check in though to let you know that I haven't forgotten you x "

Good to see you, Jules! We've missed you. Hope you get your computer in order so we see more of you.

Jules wrote: "Hi to all, by the way, haven't been around much lately, sorry. My computer is playing up, so I'm not on it very often anymore.."

Good to see you! Happy to hear it's your computer having issues and you are well.

Jules wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Storyheart wrote: "mef wrote: "Does anybody know whether you can upload to GoodReads from the spreadsheets that Shelfari sends for your own records? Has anybody tried it?"
Yes you ca..."

I hope you get your computer situation resolved; we miss you.

This is about 'the dismal move', but as it's about me, thought this space ok. Cut/Paste.

My email reply to GR: re widget.

"Thanks for the offer of the blog 'widget'.. I still have so many repairs to my shelf, ie 3 copies of Gone Girl, and several others. The work involved in books that I had read, being shown as 'want to read', and many books NOT being transferred.
The WORST aspect of GR is the lack of thread NESTING... So many of our private club members no longer bother to post, daily.. Many say they have to spend their time also, sorting out their shelves.
Certainly there are several great new features, but the ability to find, easily, members who read MOSTLY, what I read, is still seemingly, not that efficient.
I too either get 81 emails, or none, so somehow I've upset my 'notifications', settings. "


Lesley Moseley

Lesley wrote: "This is about 'the dismal move', but as it's about me, thought this space ok. Cut/Paste."


I got that email as well. A widget is the last thing I am thinking of.

I'm still straightening shelf and may never complete it.

Also, I bought a new kindle for hubby as he has been using mine for a few cookbooks. It was a great deal much cheaper than mine which I bought several years ago but it has a lot of features that mine doesn't .

Hubby decided he didn't want to learn how to use it and offered it to me and he would take over the old one, however my books are on my old one so I have to move them all. More tedious time consuming stuff.