Goodreads Rant

Okay, guys let me just get this off my chest now. My crazy OCD cannot handle Goodreads right now. I've decided that I need to have a shelf on Goodreads that consists of the books I own, this will mean I will have books I want to read, books I've read, and then another list of books that I currently own. Well, I've just about finished my bookshelf so I started going through my GoodReads books. So I have to go through every book on my shelves and add them to this list. While I started doing this I started thinking about making another one just for Kindle books and another one for audiobooks. These would be convenient. But it's a lot of work going through all of these. I also think this is spamming everyone that follows me on there because it is posting them as if I'm just now starting to 'want to read them,' because they are rearranging that 'want to read' shelf to go in order with the ones I just marked as Book I Own. 

But for people who love to read on a large scale like this or even like to look for something to read you don't have much choice in what system you do this with. I had an excel spreadsheet of all my books, and it helped so much in the moving process, but if I'm in a bookstore I can't just look at my spreadsheet and see what I have and not have. At least on GoodReads, I can type in the book and pull up this specific book I want and it will tell me how I have it listed. But this is just a lot of time-consuming work. I hope it doesn't annoy anyone as much as it annoys me.

I started doing this on Monday and guys I just finished today! I really wanted to start tracking books I owned and this is literally the best way to do it. I know it pops every book up in the feed as 'wanting to read' or 'read' and I'm sorry but I'm so freaking happy to have this as accurate as I do. I might still be missing a couple of books, and I know I haven't added my nook books because I haven't been on nook for years I don't even think I have access to those books anymore. Plus I'm on a Kindle now so if I want to read those books I have to read them on my phone which sucks! I really wish I could read them on my Kindle! Guys combine your app stores for your customers' sake, heck I would even pay for a nook app on my Kindle at this point. My next step would be to get an iPad and be done with both Kindle and Nook in order to have book systems. I just don't want to sink the money into one right now.

So yeah this was totally worth doing, it was just very time-consuming. I would vote for anyone who has a huge collection like mine to do it. Even if you have been on GoodReads forever it is awesome to be able to pull it up. I still want to look at the books I want to read and take some of the really old ones off but as of now every book I own is marked as want to read or read. I kind of want to go back through and mark what is on my Kindle and the ones on my Audible because guys I love torturing myself apparently!