Goodreads Rant
Okay, first off, my #1 rant has to do with their contests! I check the contest page everyday now and in the almost 10 years that I've been on Goodreads and entering contests, I think I've won 5 or maybe 4? So basically I can count on ONE hand how many contests I've won. Do I remember every contest I enter? Goodness no, but "thankfully" Goodreads is so "kind" to remind me!
They send me emails like: Hey, do you remember you entered a contest to win a/n (early) copy of THAT BOOK you really wanted to read? Well guess what? YOU LOST!!! We hope you'll still buy the book eventually and read it! Have a great day!
Yeah. That's pretty much how they go. They might ramble a bit more about the book and why I should go out and buy it right away or in the case of it being a contest for an ARC, they hope that I will still buy the book when it releases in X months. I mean really? REALLY?! You have to go to the trouble to tell me I LOST A CONTEST! Who does that?! I mean when I run a blog contest on my blog, I don't email all 1000+ entrants to tell them they lost and then email that one or two people who won. I mean for real!! Why does Goodreads have to do that? I've tweeted at them constantly to stop it, but I feel like that just falls on death twitter ears.
And you know what else bugs me? The "Want to Read" marking. The way I function on Goodreads is to use "Want to Read" as "I Physically Have a Copy." Then later Goodreads is like, "Hey that book you 'Want to Read' has a contest up. And I'm like...I have it. Duh.
I know there's an option to select somewhere in the review status or something like that to say you own a copy. But that just seems soooo tedious. Yes, I know it's not sound logical. All it takes is an extra click during my clicking "Want to Read" and such. But I wish there could be separate tags for "Want to Read--but do not have" AND "Want to Read--it's physically in my possession." But I feel like this issue is just mine alone and I should just start, from here on out, marking all those "Want to Read" as "own a copy" as well. Then maybe I'll stop getting those emails.
Anyone else have these problems with Goodreads? What do you like or not like about the website?
