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mvccd1000

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24. Not as easy to find...
Mon May 28, 2012, 11:43 PM
May 2012

... you used to be able to go to "My Recommendations," and in the horizontal menu bar under the section at the top was something like "Rate these items" (or similar wording). In that section, you could type in an author or title and then mark the book as one you'd read and rate it there. Lately, Amazon seems to have made changes that no longer let you search for items (so you can no longer rate a book you picked up in the library or at the used book store).

Instead, if you go to "My Recommendations" and then "Improve My Recommendations," you'll find a list of everything you've purchased. This doesn't help you create a concise rated list that you can print out or refer to, but it should at least help improve your recommendations based on the books you liked.

There are several areas where they could make improvements to the kindle; a better way to manage ratings would be one, and I've love to see the copyright dates of the books available on kindle. It can't help the "impulse purchase" market when I have to leave Amazon and go to Wikipedia or one of the book sites to find out which book in a series is next in order for me. (Often, when they do put a publication date on a kindle page, it's the date it went to kindle. All of an author's books may have dates within a month, even if they were originally published over decades.)

I've written to the kindle improvement suggestion email address... guess we'll see if that does any good.

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I use notes on my iphone. alphabetecally, by author, with dates. OffWithTheirHeads May 2012 #1
I go by the design on the book cover. In the last few years I have bought at least two books twice. applegrove May 2012 #2
I absolutely loved that book too. Curmudgeoness May 2012 #6
A list in Microsoft Works that I add to... fadedrose May 2012 #3
For a brief while, I kept a list of what I'd read along with a brief opinion about it. raccoon May 2012 #4
I love your idea of using a spreadsheet... Little Star May 2012 #5
nook takes care of that for me now, but for hardcopies just my habits dmallind May 2012 #7
Me too, I don't sell or trade books other than if I disliked them.... Little Star May 2012 #8
I don't JitterbugPerfume May 2012 #9
Do you ever buy a book... Little Star May 2012 #10
I admit to having two copies of some books JitterbugPerfume May 2012 #11
LOL!!! I hear ya. Been there done that. Little Star May 2012 #12
Usually just my brain power Broken_Hero May 2012 #13
i was getting the same books. now i have a notebook for favorite authors and what is coming out seabeyond May 2012 #14
The key phrase in your otherwise excellent post pscot May 2012 #15
Oops. :) mvccd1000 May 2012 #17
I keep a limited paper list of authors that are new to me, so I can make sure I read all the books Nay May 2012 #16
I don't read as much or as fast as most people. So it's not hard closeupready May 2012 #18
I use Goodreads.com Poiuyt May 2012 #19
Librarything Sisaruus May 2012 #20
Interesting mvccd1000 May 2012 #21
Thanks! I'm gonna check that out.... Little Star May 2012 #22
How do you rate the books on ohheckyeah May 2012 #23
Not as easy to find... mvccd1000 May 2012 #24
Thank you very much for the information.... ohheckyeah May 2012 #25
One of the advantages of growing older.......... dimbear May 2012 #26
I use some kind of notebook. Over the years I've had several. SheilaT Jun 2012 #27
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