Instructional Tutorial Presentation about the Goodreads website.

1. Introduction to Goodreads
www.goodreads.com
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Goodreads is an excellent free website for
people who loves and enjoys reading. It is a
book site for exploring and sharing with
others multiple selection of books and
learning a new adventure for reading. A
member of Goodreads can see bookshelves,
rate books, rate books, edit books, select
books for check out , see what you have read,
what you are reading, join book clubs, join
social groups, post writing, contact authors,
and more.

2. Group Presentation
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Goodreads Tutorial

3. Create a free Goodreads account
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Go to www.goodreads.com
Create a user name, password, and type email
address - sign-up is complete: Must use your first
and last name, your name will appear
Password must be six or more characters
New here? Create a free account!
By clicking “Sign up” I agree to the Goodreads
Terms of Service and confirm that I am at least 13
years old.
You can modify, delete, and set your privacy setting
at anytime after you have signed in.

4. Find Friends Page will appear
Getting Started
 Can find and add friends
You can skip this step if you are not interested in
adding friends
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5. Find and select your favorite Genre
(type of book you like)
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Goodreads will use your favorite genres to make
better book recommendations and customize your
browsing experience on Goodreads.
Click the “want to read” green tab for the book that
you want to read
Christian
Manga
Spirituality
Humor and Comedy

6. Rate and Review Books
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Rate Books that You’ve Read
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5 - Star Rating for books
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*1. did not like
**2. it was ok
*** 3. really liked it
****4. really liked it
*****5. it was amazing
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Can share reviews with others
Goodreads learns about your personal tastes from your
ratings.
Rate 20 more books to get personalized recommendations!
Click I’m finished rating, when finished

7. Welcome to Goodreads, Sample
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A welcome page with you name will appear
You will have the option to:
• To see what you are currently reading
•Add friends to see their latest reads
• Comment on their reads
• Rate books you’ve read to get
recommendations
• Rate 20 books and Goodreads will learn
your tastes
• Find and add books to your shelves

8. Add books to shelves
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Select the box with find and add books to
your shelves
Search by all title, author, ISBN, list, or genre
Can search by books, groups, quotes, events,
stories, people, listopia, and trivia

9. Home Page
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Deciding what to read next?
What are your friends reading?
Search and browse books
Shows trivia, quizzes, and quotes
Shows a list of Goodreads Choice Awards
best books

10. My Books Page
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You can:
See what books you have read
See what books you are currently reading
Get book recommendations
Add books to shelves
See what books you own

11. Friends Page
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Can search for Goodreads (members) friends
by name or email
Goodreads friends of friends, etc.
Can add friends

12. Recommendations Tab
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How book recommendations works:
Recommendations by shelf ?
Recommendations by genre ?
More actions
Recommendations for users
Give recommendations
Ask for recommendations
Books marked as “not interested”

13. The Explore Tab
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Can explore and review the Explore tab in a variety of ways:
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genres
listopia
giveaways
popular
goodreads voice
e-books
trivia
quizzes
quotes
community
groups
creative writing
people
events
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14. Member profile information
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You can edit or change your profile, and more
Select the member book image or the drop
down arrow image

15. Drop down arrow icon
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Sample (name of Goodreads member)
edit profile
friends
help
switch to mobile
sign out

16. Sign out
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You may sign out of Goodreads, once you
have finished exploring and navigating the
website.

17. Goodreads member privacy information
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Goodreads, Inc. care about how your information is
used and shared. Goodreads will not use or share
your information with anyone except as described in
the Privacy Policy.
Goodreads use the personal information you submit
to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features
and functionality of the Service. Goodreads never
discloses your personal information to any third
party unless you have instructed Goodreads to do so.

18. Questions ????
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Question & Answer Time….

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I hope that you all have enjoyed the
Introduction to Goodreads
presentation tutorial!!!!