6 Good Reasons To Join Goodreads

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There are lots of good reasons to join Goodreads. It is a book website for anyone who enjoys reading.

Goodreads is owned by Amazon and was founded in December 2006. First-time users can sign up, select their favorite genre and then can create their personal reading list.

This site currently had over 20 million members and 10,000,000 books.

If you love reading books then you are probably familiar with the benefits & enjoyment that comes along with it.

No Vacation is complete without a good book in hand.

Here are some good reasons to join Goodreads-


1.Track your Reading Progress

Goodread's greatest advantage lies within its tracking system. You can literally track on which page you were or what percentage of the book you have completed.

It makes reading easy for book lovers because you don't have to rely only on bookmarks anymore.

You can update your progress & anybody including your friends can see what you read so far.

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2. Social Interaction

We use Social media a lot for connecting, networking or simply chatting.

Goodreads idea seems very thoughtful as it increases the love for books once again using Social networks.

As mentioned earlier, you can see your friend's updates.

You can even link twitter, Facebook and auto-publish your review on your blog. 

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3. Encouragement

We all that reading in solitude is the most fulfilling thing you can do.

Unfortunately, most people no longer read books as much as they should and that's where Goodreads come in handy.

By constantly reminding - where you left, how much you read & what you and your friends in the social circle are reading, it provides valuable information or instant feedback to keep you motivated.

It also helps you challenge yourself to read more books than you normally read.

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4. Book recommendations

This is the most amazing feature of Goodreads & a game-changer for serious readers.

We buy a book, read it & after that, we want to read something else. It takes a lot of mental effort at first to know which book to read next.

Goodreads measure what type of books you have read & give you recommendations accordingly.

5. Management of chaos

For those, who read a lot must have a huge amount of books on shelves as if it can be converted into a small library.

Buying books is good, but managing them is a mess.

For example, if you have read more than 50 books, then probably you won't be able to tell the difference between reading, read and unread books.

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6. Follow Authors

Not only you can follow your friends, but also authors.

Authors also write blog posts frequently. You can not only see their updates just as you do on other social media platforms.

You can see all the other books written by the same author and can also see reviews.


The BOTTom Line-

Yeah ! We love to become a part of something bigger than us. Goodreads is the largest community for books just like Amazon is the first choice for book buyers.

 Goodreads community is growing rapidly allowing people to make groups of book suggestions, polls & discussions.

Every individual can search annotations, reviews, and databases of books.

Enjoy Reading.