Q&A for How to Use Goodreads

Goodreads is a social bookmarking tool for books, magazines, and other printed materials. On Goodreads, you can find books to read, meet new people, track your progress on whatever you're reading, and read passages other people have shared. You can also connect your Kindle account to Goodreads, since they were recently bought by Amazon.

Search for the book in the search box at the top of the page. On the books info page, hover over the Want to Read button, and choose Read on the dropdown.

The eBook reading option isn't a feature of the Goodreads website at this time. It is only available on the mobile apps. You can mark them as want to read, but you can't actually read them. And then, there is the question of "if there is an eBook available on Goodreads" that you can actually read - otherwise you're stuck with reading a paperback or other eBook (from either a Kindle or Nook) and update the pages accordingly.

Goodreads is a social-media page for tracking your reading and communicating with other readers, not a source for books. To read a book, you can buy a physical copy, borrow from your library, buy or borrow an ebook, or buy or borrow an audiobook. After you read it, get on Goodreads to update and discuss it.

Yes! You can use the "Import and Export" button, found on your "My Books" page when you are signed into your account. Alternatively, you can print out each of your shelves page by page, if desired.

Go to "my books" and then click "read" in the sidebar. In the app, touch "my books" and then "read."

Much like you always do. As you read, you can mark your progress. You still have to do the reading yourself - your digital life on Goodreads can keep up with you only through your actions.

An author does not need to write reviews in order to receive them.

If the book is not added to your reading challenge when you mark it as read, go to the book's page, click "Edit your review," scroll down and select "Add read date." Add the current year as "Date finished" for the book to count.

Individual books cannot be set to private. The best thing you can do is set your profile to private so while your friends can see what books you've read, general users will not see that.

Goodreads is a book review and recommendation site. You cannot read or listen to books on it.

On your homepage, the first thing you'll see is a brown colored book and beside that "what are you reading?". Below that will be a search bar. Search for the book you are reading. When you find it, click on it. You can then update your progress right from your home page. Once you are done, click the '"I'm finished' button. You can rate and review the book if you want. Return to your home page and you can repeat the process with another book.

You can find the giveaways under the browse section. Giveaways are currently only for US and Canadian members. Goodreads says that they'll try to expand giveaways to other countries one by one.

Go to "My Books", find it on your "want to read" list and click "remove from list". If you want to add it to another list, click the arrow by the little box that says "want to read" and click the other list you want to add it to.

First, you are going to need to find their account. Have them send you the link over text/email if possible. On their profile, by the button that says "follow", there will be an arrow. Click the arrow and there will be the option to send a friend request. Click that to send it. It will give you the option to add a message with the request.

Go to the “My Books” section and go to “Want To Read”. There will be a option saying “print”. Click it and print it out. You can also print out other lists as well.

Yes. If your are friends with the user, click the mail icon to send a message. Become their friend to send a message.

Click on their user profile and there will be an option to block them. Go ahead and block them if you would like.

Yes. Under "Account settings" and then both the "profile" and "settings" tabs, there are various options to control who your information is visible to. Additionally, all information is optional except for your email address (which is shown to nobody) and your first name (which you can just make up).

You don't need to pay for Goodreads. It is completely free, except that authors/publishers must pay a small fee to run a giveaway on Goodreads.

There is no advanced search option as such, but on the search page you can change your search from "all" to title, author, or genre. You can also search by ISBN, if you know the ISBN or ISBN-13 of the book you are looking for.

Easy! Just search for the book and click on it. You will first see the blurb and description of the book. Then, you will see a 'My Activity' section just underneath, which will have an area for 'rating', 'review', 'shelves' and so forth. The reviews of the people you are following will come right after.