Feature and Follow Friday #95 – Reviews in other Places
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Do you post your reviews anywhere besides your blog? Where else do you post reviews? – Suggested by A Great Read
I usually post my reviews first on my blog – I want to have the copyright to them, so they always go here first. Then, I will post a full review (with a link back here) on Booklikes and on Leafmarks. Amazon will get a review, too, but I usually catch up on my reviews there once a week. Before I started blogging, and for quite a while after I got my blog, too, it was Goodreads that was the place I posted all my reviews. With their policy changes and deletions of both user-shelves and reviews, I don’t post full reviews there anymore, only my star-rating, a catch-phrase and a link to my review here.
What about you? Do you post reviews in many other places?
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Linda is an English as foreign language teacher and has a Master's degree in English Language and Literature. She's an avid reader, blogger, compulsive one-clicker and a genre omnivore. Ever since she learnt how to read she has been seen with a book or two in her hands everywhere she goes.
I tend to post my reviews on Goodreads, and on my blog first, then I would post them on B&N. I have to start posting my reviews on amazon though ;D
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Jackie @Jackie’s Book World
Yeah, on Amazon, it always makes me a little sad when I see that people downvote my review 🙁 But I still write my reviews there as well, I think it’s good for the authors to be seen there.
Have a fantastic Friday, Jackie 🙂
I used to post my reviews on Amazon but I kinda gave up a while back on that hah. I normally post it on my blog first then I upload it onto GR when I remember to.
Yeah, my blog is always first, too, Melanie 🙂
I did not hear about Goodreads doing that! That seems harsh! I usually post my full reviews there as well.
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This happened way back in 2013, Jessica, after a lot of author/blogger drama, and some people had lots of different shelf names, suddenly, shelves and reviews disappeared – before there was an announcement that was only in the feedback group and not site-wide.
Have a great weekend 🙂
Booklikes and leafmarks…those two are new to me. Recommendable I assume?
Yeah, I like both of them, Nikki, Booklikes has both shelves and books, and you can blog and post about other things than books, too 🙂 Leafmarks has a great database, the possibility to add re-reads and other things that I really enjoy.
I’ve been posting my reviews to goodreads, Amazon, Booklikes, LibraryThing, and Netgalley(if applicable). I’m having a hard time managing all that though, so I think I’m going to cut down to just Amazon and Goodreads. Like you, I post first to my blog. Old bloglovin follower. Happy Friday! Here’s my F&F.
I always forget that I have a LibraryThing account… and I also forgot about Netgalley and Edelweiss…
Have a great weekend, Kim 🙂
My gut reaction is always “it’s mine!” so it goes on my own blog first then other places. NetGalley if the review is a book I got there. Goodreads I’ve been so bad at keeping updated (fixing that is a project to come) but am doing recommendations. I have a BookLikes account, but got frustrated at trying to create a blog – I may go back and work on that. Leafmarks is new to me and now I have to go check them out.
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LOL, I’m glad I’m not the only one, Marsha. On Booklikes, you automatically have a blog, and you can post many different things there, links, videos, posts that have nothing to do with books, and reviews 🙂
Thanks for stopping by, Marsha.
*blush* I should double check not on bloglovin’ (I was so sure) but heading up to the email follow now. Sorry 🙁
I still post to Goodreads, but I’m actually thinking about checking out Leafmarks because it looks interesting and I was looking for an alternative to Goodreads. I make sure that I do post to Amazon, because I always like to bump up the promo for author’s that I truly adore and books that I think are worth sharing with other’s. And of course, there’s my eGalley’s that I receive for review and I need to post my reviews to Edelweiss and Netgalley. 🙂
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Suz @ A Soul Unsung
Leafmarks is really good, but I would enjoy it even more if it was easier to chat with other users there…
Have a great weekend, Suz 🙂
Havent tried Booklikes and leafmarks..Will try it sometime..I usually post on GR and Amazon, apart from my blog. 🙂
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I think you’d really enjoy Booklikes, Nikita 🙂 Have a great weekend.
I post my reviews to the blog first, too! I never thought of it from a copyright angle though – it makes perfect sense when you mention it! But, ooh boy do I remember Goodreads changing their policies 🙁 I’ve been thinking about posting shorter reviews to GR for a while now, but usually I’m in a rush and will just copy the entire post (oops!), instead of writing a summary. It’s a habit I think I’ll have to get into, in honesty. I need to get back into both Leafmarks and Booklikes, I have accounts set up in both, but I haven’t updated them in months and months! I love that both sites have half-star ratings, it’s such a pain without it on GR in comparison.
Have a great weekend, Lexxie, and happy reading! (Old follower)
Yeah, I just couldn’t continue to post full reviews on GR anymore… but I have lots of friends over there, and I keep going there every day 🙂
I don’t use half-star ratings much, but I do enjoy the possibility they givve me.
Have a great weekend, Alma.
I always make sure to write my reviews and post them immediately on the blog but when I have time I post them on GR, too. That being said I’m not the biggest fan of Amazon so I don’t post my reviews on there.
I post my reviews on Amazon, but only once per week, or maybe less often, I’ll copy-paste my reviews from here to there. I think it’s a good way for authors to show how many people have read their books so far, and that might be an important part of their marketing plan.
Have a great weekend, Lily!
I usually post my reviews to my blog first too and then to Goodreads. I have most of my reviews from my old blog archived on that site.
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I post on the usual places. I used to do it in Library Thing too but then they want money if I want to add more books to my shelves which is ridiculous. Why would I pay when GR is free? Then there’s Shelfari which I haven’t touched in a long time. So many places it’s hard to maintain everything!
I started using Library Thing, but it’s really difficult to navigate, I find, so I haven’t used it in a long time. Shelfari is another place I haven’t been to in ages either 🙂 And you’re right, Braine, too many places to maintain just won’t do it 🙂
I wasn’t aware that of Goodreads policy to change and deletions user-shelves and reviews; wow! I can see why though, in light of the recent bickerings between book bloggers and authors. Still, good to know! I usually post reviews on my blog first, then Goodreads and Amazon.
This happened about a year and a half ago, Claudia. And I think that if Goodreads wanted to have shelf names a certain way, they should have just told the users who had undesirable shelf names so they could change them… The way it was done was not good, and some reviewers lost a lot of their reviews.
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I post them first on the blog too (though I don’t do much reviewing these days), then Goodreads. But sometimes I forget to cross-post 😀
Yeah, it happens to me quite often that I post 10 reviews in a row on the same day on Amazon, Cayce 🙂
I usually post my review on goodreads and my blog and if I think of it on amazon as well. I tend to forget cross-posting on amazon if it isn’t a review book. I know how much amazon reviews help authors, so I try to think about it, but it just isn’t routine yet.
Yeah, I try to always post on amazon, but it doesn’t always happen on the same day as my review goes live on my blog.
Thanks for stopping by Lola 🙂
I haven’t used Booklikes or Leafmarks. Would you recommend it.
I also post a copy of my review on Tsu now!
Hope you’ve had a good weekend.
Kirsty xx
I like both Booklikes and Leafmarks, Kirsty, but they’re very different one from the other. Booklikes is great for the community, and also for the possibility to post other things than reviews. Leafmarks is great because you can do re-reads there, and log them correctly. Both sites offer half-stars 😉
Have a great weekend 🙂
I post on my blog, GR, Amazon and B&N, typically. You’re going to have to tell me more about what GR’s is doing – I’m worried. And I suppose I should switch over to Booklikes?? Please help me. 🙂
**BIG HUGS** from your techno-challenged friend. 🙂
Chat later? I use Booklikes quite a lot, and I like it, but most of my book-friends are still on Goodreads.
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