I have two Show 5s.  Bought one a while back at what I thought was a good price and bought a second one on Black Friday at the new price.  Love it.  Use it more or less as a desk clock plus Alexa.  Changed the settings to show as few recommedations, etc as possible.

Betsy

I notice that some suppliers are gaming the Yellow Pages by publishing umpteen similar adverts, resulting in their ads appearing disproportionately frequently.

Could we cull them please? Or if that's illegal in some territories, could we cull the ads?

Thanks, I review periodically but haven't done it recently. 

Some businesses fit into more than one category and are allowed to have more than one ad, and I think some people accidentally make more than one post, but others definitely try to game the system.

I'll take a look, thanks for letting us know.

Betsy

Folks, on my way to the hospital with my husband.  (Non-critical) Let me review and I or another mod will be by.  ETA that hubby doing okay.


EDIT:  Removing a couple of posts, there will probably be further editing.  Stay on topic and stay civil.  Talk about the site, not each other.

Will be back to do more editing.

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This topic has been moved to The Book Bazaar.

https://www.kboards.com/index.php?topic=313445.0

A reminder that no one is required to post in a thread.  If someone doesn't want to be involved in a discussion, the easiest way to do that is to not post in the thread.  Just sayin'. Edited to add: I've removed a post that seemed to be confused on that point.  If your post was removed and you have a question, feel free to PM me.

Let's have a great Memorial Day weekend, folks!

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Playing around on the GR site a bit, it's not straightforward how to find authors to follow. You pretty much have to know you want to...

I kind of assumed that's how you used FactFict.  (Never having used it myself.). I expected that when you found a series you liked, you went to FactFict, searched for it and then clicked "follow" or something.  Did you browse there looking for books?

...then have to find a listing for one of their books and then click the author name. Then you can follow them. Even if you don't it looks like it does provide a listing of books, and also shows what series they have. I looked up an author who I know has more than one series and, sure enough, they're both listed on the author page. Followed a couple .... will see if I get bombarded with promos.

I did a search for "In Death Series" on GR, then clicked on the author name.  Also searched by the author name.  Wasn't difficult.  That seems pretty much how one would do it on any site?  Again, I don't recall ever using FactFict more than maybe once, years ago, so I really have no idea how it worked.

I also signed up for a couple of authors.  We'll see.  We should also send a request into GR to allow us to follow series.

Betsy

I didn't have much use for Goodreads early on.  But now that it will automatically note which books I'm reading and which I've finished, I find it much more useful.  It's also gotten less cumbersome to use, though still not great, at least on the iPad app, which is how I primarily use it.)

EDIT:  It looks like you can follow an author but not a series...I've not followed an author on GR before, not sure what info one gets.  I've followed TR Ragan so I can see what happens.

Last update said I could load in my Amazon books...which I thought I could already do, so I haven't checked that yet.

Betsy

Aargh.  That sucks.  I've not used it, but I know you did!

Betsy

Guess where I was last week.

I'm going to try to start taking some Milky Way picks.  Love this!

Betsy

My reviews probably get ignored...I don't do very long reviews.
   

They always say that they will look into it, but never seem to do anything about reinstating. My Son-in-Law was banned with a decade or more of reviews removed for publishing an article that showed how a particular writer was using fake reviews. He gave links so that anyone could verify his claims. He was polite, but apparently highlighting an Amazon problem is against their TOS. He ended up cancelling his account then re-joining with the same name and credit card, which gave back review privileges, but didn't restore his many hundreds of missing reviews. Prior to this he was a highly rated Amazon reviewer who was often sent ARC material by Amazon. It seems that Amazon doesn't like attention being drawn to a suspect review process.

An Amazon rep suggested that cancelling and re-starting the account would restore the ability to review, but not restore the years of previous reviews. The account was not suspended, just the review privileges removed. I have a British, US and an Australian Amazon account, as I travel and spend time in each country. Amazon have no problem with it, though I imagine that if attempted to review the same material from each account that would not approve. I often get a pop-up when purchasing asking which of my account addresses I would like the goods sent to.

edited, PM if you have questions -- Ann

Having different accounts at different Amazon stores is not the same thing as creating a new account at the same store in order to continue reviewing.  I *had* to open an account at the British store in order to buy from there.  I will point out that, in your initial post about your son-in-law, you did not mention that Amazon had suggested cancelling the old account and opening a new one.  I, too, would have reacted to your original post as crebel did.  And it would make me nervous even if a rep suggested it--as I've been seen things credited to different Amazon reps here that were contradictory. 

The question of how losing reviews one has made of other books would affect one's own sales, as the OP stated, is a good one.  It does seem that her reviews are gone for good, no matter what.

Betsy

I guess it's no more fallacious to delete a book simply because it's free than to download it onto one's Kindle simply because it was free.  Which a lot of us did in the early days of Kindle ownership.  As Ann and others have said, back in the olden days (2008 for me), I downloaded a LOT of stuff that I've not opened.  At this point, if the title/cover doens't catch my eye as I'm going through, it's fair game to be purged, just as I've done occasionally with paper books that perhaps I picked up at a yard sale or used book shop.  Yes, maybe I'll throw away a treasure...but I've got thousands of books in my library.  There are sure to be some diamonds left.  I've only got a couple thousand books in my Kindle library.

Betsy

Folks, keep it civil.  Thread under review but remaining open at this time.

Betsy
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