Social Sharing with your Kindle (Goodreads.com) | The Ultimate Kindle Tutorial
We have looked at the notes and highlights function already and learned how you can have your personal excerpt, your condensed version full with insights from a book for your own personal use. There are two ways to share those insights - if you like - with your friends, or even the broader public.
The first way is very easy: Highlight the passage you would like to share with someone you know.
Choose the Share function on the highlight. This will open an email-form that allows you to insert the mail address of your friend. You can change the subject... and enter a message...
The third way is becoming a member with Goodreads.com.
Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. It has been around since 2007 and has over 90 million members worldwide.
On Goodreads you can see what books your friends are reading.
You can also track the books you're reading, have read, and want to read.
If not sure what to read next, check out their personalized book recommendations. Find out if a book is a good fit for you from our community’s reviews.
Some small print for this one: Unfortunately this advice will work only if you are an Amazon-Customer in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or India.
In case your Amazon-Account is not in one of these countries you can still us Goodreads, but it will not be connected with your Kindle.
Feel free to jump to the next chapter, if you like - or take the three minutes to follow how Goodreads.com works with the Kindle.
To share your insights with your friends or the whole world - sign in to Goodreads.com and go to the Account Settings page - there go to Apps.
In the Amazon section you can connect the account.
Set the book to “Currently Reading” or “Read” on a Goodreads.com shelf. You can also add it to a shelf directly from the Kindle. Open the book / the go to the context menu with the three dots / and open “About this Book”....
Your highlights and notes - if you have any, yet - will be synced to Goodreads.com —Where at first only you can see it.
Sign in to Goodreads.com. Go to My Books / Kindle Notes and Highlights (under Your reading activity).
Goodreads.com - My Books. Then click on the book you want to share from. Now, you can share any of your notes and highlights by switching them to “Visible“. Add your own note before you share it.
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