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Goodreads appears to be down with a Cloudfront 502 error, "The request could not be satisfied."

I'm in the eastern US. Anybody elsewhere seeing a problem?

What I’m asking is:

If I check a book on Goodreads, can I see if it’s in a list of any challenge? Or do I have to go to the challenge page and check all the lists to see if the book is included?

As long as Goodreads has been doing library exports and I have had Calibre (15 years) I have imported my export into my library to update the metadata on some 3000 books.

One column that was always appreciated and updated - the average rating - it changed from month to month depending on how the book was doing.

Today I imported for the first time in about a month and discovered the average rating column gone. GONE -

This isn't going to bother the vast majority of people - except those who used that column to keep track of their tbr reading lists.

Sure you guys keep the "bookshelves with positions" which is a column that I wonder if ANYONE ever needed - but the average rating was a dynamic column that kept track of things that were always changing with the books. I am ticked and have no idea how I am going to fill this column in Calibre now.

Why?????

So I use book apps like GoodReads to track my books, what I read, my TBR pile, what star rating and review I give, etc.

I wish the app were based on my star rating and reviews instead of “Since you read this certain book, you might enjoy this one.”

Because what if I didn’t like the books that I read? Or what if there were books that I enjoyed and gave a high rating? Does this make sense? 🤔

I'm torn. I did spend time on it and got 1/3 of the way through before deciding it wasn't for me - but it also feels unfair to mark it as read and towards my goal because I didn't FULLY read it.

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So I’m trying to search for a certain book on Goodreads (This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews) and it keeps saying the servers are over capacity and nothing’s working. Now maybe I’m impatient but it’s been going on for quite a while. Does anyone have any ideas as to what’s going on?

If you have an android, the app is so limiting compared to the ios version. On ios if you go to the genre tab and press, let's say, philosophy. You'll get an endless supply of books that you could scroll through. On the android version your only given 20ish

So out of the blue, my Goodreads account - of over a dozen years' history, is showing up as locked when I tried to login this week. The display message on login says it has been "temporarily suspended because one of your actions violated our Community Guidelines".

I haven't done anything unusual or spam like whatsoever. I'd recently participated in a buddy-read activity with some friends, so in the past 10 days or so, I had rated about 5 books I'd completed reading (some were positive ratings, others critical ratings) and 'liked' half a dozen other reviews at max. I don't know if Goodreads auto filters assumed this as spam, but it makes no sense to me. I've always been constructive in my reviews/ratings, and whether it's a positive or critical review, I always mention the aspects which either worked for me or didn't.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? I'd reached out to Support team over the 'Contact Us' link, explaining that I haven't done anything which violates Goodreads Community Guidelines or Ratings/Review Guidelines, but....all I received was an automated email stating that "Your Goodreads account is temporarily suspended while under investigation for suspicious activity. We will notify you once this review is complete. If you would like to proactively appeal the action, please contact us and submit a summary explaining why your review/rating activity adheres to Goodreads guidelines."

The email definitely seems automated, because I had already submitted a pretty detailed explanation as to why my review/rating activity did not violate any guidelines.

Any suggestions on what I should do further? Does replying to the email help, or do I post another submission on the 'Contact Us' page after a few days?

If anyone has had a similar experience - how long does Goodreads Support typically take to respond to appeals? Is there an actual support executive/Mod who will review the case or is it all just auto filter driven?

Logically, I realize this may not be a huge deal. But I have so much reading history associated with my account that I can't help feeling almost bereft at this unexpected development.

Edited to add: I never received any email from Goodreads informing me that my account was temporarily suspended and for what reasons. The only correspondence I received from Support team was in reply to the details I submitted on the 'Contact Us' form.

I'm using Goodreads on my laptop with Chrome. I used to be able to access my custom shelves/tags on the main book page by clicking on the "Want to read" button under the cover illustration. I could then choose a shelf and add tags. Now when I click on the button the "Choose a shelf" window appears and immediately disappears before there is any chance to make a selection. Is this a Goodreads bug or is this a Chrome thing? Any way to fix it. It's a pain to have to go to the My Books page and edit. Thanks.

The last few Challenges, I had a hard time finishing the books I chose, and I ended up DNF part way through. Of course, this experience taught me books I didn't want to read, or maybe books I can't power through when I'm not in the mood.

Does anyone hop around and read and throwaway several books until they settle on the right one? I'm wondering if I got lucky in earlier Challenges and found ones I've liked in other quarters, but I've had bad luck this season?

How do you choose? What's your method? (ADD: How do you avoid DNFing too many and choosing the right one?)

Currently rereading Actor before the new books come out. Does anyone count rereads toward their yearly goal? If so, is there a reread section or do you just change the dates of when you read the book??