Alex Kudera > Status Update

For me too, the newly-added "currently reading" book is no longer in the upper left of the home page, alas, so adding progress updates is harder. But there is a way. Go to your profile page, and its "currently reading" section instead. Your most recent current read should be one of the three books there. Actually click on the "currently reading" button or banner or whatever it is beside the book /to the right side of the box it is in. When you click on that button, an "update your reading progress/I'm on page___" thingy pops up. Presto: for all subsequent updates the book will now show up on your home page!

I'll look into this; I've tried something similar before but did not get the result I'd hoped for. Thanks, W.D.

I'm specifically referring to the desktop version in an e.g. Windows browser, tho... Not the app, or mobile browser version, which I haven't used... Good luck 🙂

Those complaints are minor compared to mine. What really irritates me about the book reviews on goodreads (not that I read many anymore) is that the reviewers seem to be more focused on displaying their cleverly worded barbs or displayong how erudite they are, or a half-dozen other things that have nothing to do with the book being reviewed. I think this solepsistic method is just another example of the effect of self-publishing on publishing. It's not the quality of the writing apparently that counts, it's the clever marketing scheme devised by the author or by publishing consultants. One clever "writer" managed to get his book ranked number one in a particular subgenre of novel on Amazon--the fascinating element in this ranking is that the author never wrote the book, which of course begs the question, "was he the author?" Here is briefly how it was done: Said author found a novel in the public domain from the nineteenth century, whose setting was the Caribbean. Well, he simply copied the original book, and changed the title. Then submitted it to Amazon under the subgenre, which was something like Carribean novels that about pirate romances taking place on islands infested with non-native species. Somehow, Amazon accepted the genre and in a few weeks the quasi-author could boast of his ranking. But deceptions like this doesn't just have humorous effects. You must likely know that book reviews on a number of book seller sites are fabricated by the authors' friends. I guess that's fine if they're sincere. However, a purported "new translation" of Mein Kampf was published a few years ago, with an inordinate number of four or five star reviews, most claiming that this "new translation" revealed that Hitler was being demeaned and demonized. Why? Because this new translation demonstrated that Hitler really didn't have animositity towards Jews, and that he was basically a nice guy. Of course, astute readers revealed that the book was actually a very old mistranslated English edition that had little in common with the original except that it was poorly written. Nearly all the reviews noted that the book was a gift; I guess so they wouldn't be branded as closet antisemites. Whatever! Given the actual reading level of the average American, it's doubtful if any of the "reviewers" even read the translation. Why else would the reviews be 4 or 5 stars, and contain generic laudatory language, and mention how well-translated it was--as if the 'reviewers' had read the original German edition. Well, that's just two examples. Goodreads isn't worth providing a third.