Tell Me Something Tuesday was hosted by Rainy Day Ramblings, but she has (temporarily?) stopped blogging. So a group of us that had been doing posts (Linda from Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell, Karen from For What It’s Worth, Roberta from Offbeat YA, Jen from That’s What I’m Talking About and me) decided to get together, come up with some more topics and keep the meme going.Michelle made us a logo and we’re off and running. For more details, check out this post where I reintroduced the meme.
I can be sporadic, but when I do join in I will always share next week’s topic at the end of the post. So, today is about…
How do you organize your Goodreads Shelves?
I JUST spent months reorganizing my shelves. It’s been a big project and I’m not sure if I’m finished yet.
First I deleted every unread book. Yeah. They were that messed up.
Then I deleted just about every shelf.
Then I created new ones… after a ton of thought. My new shelves are:
Exclusive shelves:
These are your basics, with one added – paused. Books I think I want to come back to. I debated having a DNF shelf. But I’m going to leave those in the Read category with a 1 star rating.
Shelves for keeping track of what I own:
I decided one of my struggles has been keeping track of what I own. So if I am given a book for review or if I purchase it, it will immediately go on one of these shelves and stay there. If I’m trying to decide what to read, I can use multiple shelves to decide (thus filtering out the already read books).
Shelves for keeping track of challenges:
I sort of tried my hand at this previously so there’s a couple shelves there already. But mainly this is in preparation for next year’s tracking.
Shelves for sorting the genres I read:
I debated making this books I have read vs books I want to read. I’ve decided it will be both and I can use multiple shelves if I’m looking for what I want to read. These are all the genres I use for COYER so I decided it would be an easy sorting mechanism.
I’m in the middle of getting this done too and it is a chore! I have to unpack my books first. Lol!
You have a great system and you know how to make it work for you!
I gave up on organising my goodreads. I now have the 3 default shelves of currently reading, read and want to read. 🙂
My GR shelves are okay-ish? Ha ha. They make sense to me, but probably not other people. The most important thing I did was add a “looks-interesting” shelf after Goodreads started to make us add giveaway books to our “to-reads.” The looks-interesting shelf is actually my to-read shelf. 😄
Maybe someday I’ll get up the gumption to do a proper job like you did. Good work. 👏👏👏✨
I bow down before the queen!
I’m in the middle of getting this done too and it is a chore! I have to unpack my books first. Lol!
You have a great system and you know how to make it work for you!
“Yep, 133 unpublished! Geez!”
That’s…some stuff. A bit intimidating – but you can do it!
I think you’re the most organised among us when it comes to GR shelves!
I am super impressed Berls. I have a system, but I wish I’d known when I started the different ways I’d want to look up books. I would have had different shelves, but I’m not going to go back and try to figure those out now. I guess I’m good with it…
Well you know mine and I use them daily to pick things out or find things. It’s a process. You will add or change or delete things when you find there is something you don’t use or that you need to find things.
I like that you’re focusing your shelves on how you want to track your books. I started doing this a while back and it really keeps me organized. I have shelves for each challenge I’m currently doing, I have shelves by genre, and I have shelves by read, unread yet have, dnf or later, and wish list. I keep a spreadsheet separately of purchased books so I can track my spending and I use that for COYER purposes when I need to figure out if it counts.
It’s a big project to get the shelves the way you want them, but so worth it.
I have been going back and forth on reorganizing my shelves! Whenever I decide that I’m going to get started, I log in, stare in horror, and back out! I have a general plan of what I want to do, but there’s just so many books. I did, however, go in and add shelves for Reviewed, Not Reviewed, and Nonfiction, but I want to add genres and if I own them. Possibly other sorting criteria as well. It’s just such a huge task, but it’s nice to see that it can be done! Although, no way am I brave enough to delete all of my unread books!
Just last night I ‘emptied out’ some old shelves from previous challenges etc
I have one sticky shelf, – an ‘about to read shelf ‘ to which I add the next half a dozen or so books I have to read on my review schedule, and remove once they are read and published on my blog. I have shelves for a couple of challenges and events, one to mark ARCs, one for Netgalley, one for Edelweiss, and one for print books from publishers. I have thought of creating genre shelves but i have over 7000+ books altogether and that just seems like too much work 🙂
My shelves are a complete mess so this is actually a really useful post for me. Thanks for sharing! 😀
I’m in awe! That’s really well organized, I keep meaning to do a much smaller scale project but never get round to it