All About Books discussion

For the next year, 2021, we will continue using a combined thread for the members' reads and personal challenges into one folder. Please feel free to have more than one thread though!

Here is where you can keep a list of the books you read during the year, with comments or links to reviews or statistics or whatever you want. In addition, you can have a thread for personal challenges, both new and ongoing, where you can track your progress.

Feel free to post any questions or comments in this thread.

I wasn't sure if I was going to do a challenge this year but I will do a small one, I think I will continue my clearing the shelves challenge from last year. Take off the books I have read and add any new books I have acquired since writing up that challenge.

I probably should try to read all the books I already own and not buy new ones, but that would not only be a challenge indeed but sounds quite impossible to me 😆 so "a lot" is my goal. So many books, so little time...

My goals involve so many lists of book that I wish I could read! Sadly the reality is that I'm not likely to manage more than one book a week. But planning is half the fun!

Laurel wrote: "My goals involve so many lists of book that I wish I could read! Sadly the reality is that I'm not likely to manage more than one book a week. But planning is half the fun!"

That's pretty much my limit too Laurel with all the demands of daily life! :)

Greg wrote: “Laurel wrote: “My goals involve so many lists of book that I wish I could read! Sadly the reality is that I’m not likely to manage more than one book a week. But planning is half the fun!”

That’s ...”

This year I’ve almost managed one per week + one extra per month, on average. If I can finish two more by year’s end, which I doubt. But that’ll be my goal for next year, I think.

I'm not feeling realistic this year, so I'm going to say 60. But I may be reading a dozen children's books come December!

Out of curiosity, is there a reason why attaching links are being disabled?

I’m not sure what you mean. It’s certainly not something I have changed in this group. I can only guess it’s been done by the goodreads site I’m afraid.

Alannah wrote: "I’m not sure what you mean. It’s certainly not something I have changed in this group. I can only guess it’s been done by the goodreads site I’m afraid."

I can't post an external link/website url as I get a disabled msg. With other groups, am able to do so. I just have to add the name of the article or direct to last years' post that has the link.

Cathie wrote: "Alannah wrote: "I’m not sure what you mean. It’s certainly not something I have changed in this group. I can only guess it’s been done by the goodreads site I’m afraid."

I can't post an external l..."

I don't know what to tell you Cathie. I had a look at the settings and there's nothing about that in there. I haven't touched them at all. It's not something I would have control over.

No worries. It was an error that stated to protect member, links are not allowed or something to that affect. If I could only share a print screen.

Cathie wrote: "No worries. It was an error that stated to protect member, links are not allowed or something to that affect. If I could only share a print screen."

Cathie, so sorry, I didn't notice this question before.

You can't add links with html anymore with < a href="..." >. This is true for all of Goodreads now.

But you CAN still post raw links. Just copy the whole link and paste it or type it out: www.blah.com/blah. Goodreads will automatically make it a clickable link.

Greg wrote: "Cathie wrote: "No worries. It was an error that stated to protect member, links are not allowed or something to that affect. If I could only share a print screen."

Cathie, so sorry, I didn't notic..."

Ah, okay! Will make updates to my posts. Good to know - thank you!

I hope to get 2023's member section set up over the weekend.

2023 section is now set up!
This is the link for the members' section (the same post as this thread) https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
If you wish to post a new personal challenge or reading list, the new link is here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

Seen it Alannah. Thanks as usual