Topic: How do I create a reading list in the new site?

My apologies if someone already answered my last request, but I believe I put it in an existing thread and now can't find it. I'm trying to figure out a way to mark/remember the next chapter I need to read in all of the writers I'm following. Essentially, to recreate the reading list from the old site.

Thanks.
Dirk

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Re: How do I create a reading list in the new site?

I empathize with your dilemma. If my reviews were organized by work and author, I'd have a clue. Your solution is a novel remedy.  It would be helpful  to have the story default to the last chapter you review.

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Hi. Has anyone figured out how to manage a "reading list" with the new site yet, as we had on the old one?

Thanks.
Dirk

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Right now the reading list is at the book/novel level, not the chapter level. We'll be making some changes to the reading list to make it more usable as a tool to keep track of chapters. We'll also be rolling out some changes to chapters to make it easier.

Sol

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Ack!  Yesterday all my reviews were listed in chronological order, starting with the most recent. Now they're in a strange new order and I can't find any of the books I was reviewing. Can you please add a way to put them in a chronological order, or by dates, etc.? I don't want to wade through 15+ pages of old reviews to find the current ones I'm reading.

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Ack!  Yesterday all my reviews were listed in chronological order, starting with the most recent. Now they're in a strange new order and I can't find any of the books I was reviewing. Can you please add a way to put them in a chronological order, or by dates, etc.? I don't want to wade through 15+ pages of old reviews to find the current ones I'm reading.

They are still in chronological order. They might have been working on them so temporarily have messed with the sorting.

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Sol, you would know better than anyone what's causing people the most hairloss, but if you have any interim suggested workarounds for the reading list, please let us know.

Thanks!
Dirk

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Sol, I think Judy Goodwin may be referring to the regular vs. inline reviews. Regular reviews posted are not in chronological order, but inline reviews are. If both were also chronological it would be a good workaround until a chapter-level reading list is available. I can easily tell from my posted inline reviews where I left off with other authors books, but not from posted regular reviews.

Thanks
Dirk

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I've found a few ways to manage chapter-level reading lists. For material that was already up at the old site, the chapters transferred over. For these, I use the old site's reading list and keep it up to date with where I'm reading/reviewing using the new site.

If you use only inline reviews on the new site, those are displayed on the Inline Posted tab (click the drop-down menu, select Reviews, and then the tab), which are chronological in order, most recent reviews first. From these you can see where you left off.

If neither of these applies to you, then you probably need to keep a paper list or spreadsheet for now. I would think the spreadsheet is easier to maintain, and it works regardless of what you're reviewing and what types of reviews you do.

If Sol can get the sort order of posted regular reviews to be chronological soon, you can use the Regular Posted and Inline Posted tabs to view all of your recent reviews so you know where to pick up with all books you're reviewing. At that point the manual lists are probably unnecessary.

Hope this helps.
Dirk

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