Books | Cataloguing | Social media
The beauty of Goodreads is the shelves, am I right or am I right? They’re lists of books, but called shelves, because books. Their existence is the main reason I’ve stayed with the site for a decade (whoa).
But the thought of them can be daunting. So many options! So many options within those options!
Never fear. I’ve spent far too many hours spying on Goodreads accounts and taking notes. And let me tell you, people take their shelves *very* seriously.
Starter ideas for shelves:
- Year read. I did this for a while, but with the option to mark the dates you read a book in the review section, I’ve only kept a shelf for the current year. (You can view your yearly stats by going to My Books > Tools > Stats. Here’s what mine looks like.)
- Format/status/location. Audiobook, ebook, print? Library book? Borrowed from a pal? Owned? On deck?
- Genre. Fiction vs. nonfiction, essays vs. short stories vs. comics vs. poetry. The options here are a little easier to define by going to a book’s page and checking what common shelves are.
- Author and book identifier. Author of color? Queer? From another country? Book translated from its original language?
Examples:
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