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Feed Your Readers, the NetGalley Challenge

Duration: Monthly

How to Participate:

The NetGalley Challenge is designed to not only get you to read your NetGalley books, but to also advertise your reviews for others to see because after all, that's what NetGalley is all about.

Though you may pop in/out at any time, the NetGalley Challenge will run on a monthly basis so you are able to see progress being made.


1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf
b: What books are on your NG shelf
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is

2. During the month, read the NetGalley books that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)

3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s)**
c: Your updated shelf count
d: Your updated books to read
e: Your updated ratio

Then start a new post for the next month!




Do you ever get so caught up in your reading that you don't want to stop to write your reviews?

Thinking about that, it was decided we need a "Review Weekend", once each month, set aside to write those reviews you've been not doing in favor of reading!

Review Weekends will vary randomly each month and is meant to be a time set aside to review. Take one, or both days and get caught up on reviews so you can spend the rest of the month reading!!

The next Review Weekend is set for Mar 18/19



**When linking your reviews, please link only to the book(s) here at GoodReads. At this time, linking to a personal blog is not allowed. Thank you!

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March

Start: 3 books on shelf, 93% feedback ratio



Added in March:


Finished in March:

(review closer to pub date)
� 3.5� review

Current ratio: 98%

Oh fun! This might actually help me get my percentage up! My Netgalley feedback ratio is currently 35%. Let's see what it is at the end of the month...

1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 98
b: What books are on your NG shelf
Three Dark CrownsVigilantePekoe Most PoisonHow to Be Ultra Spiritual: 13 1/2 Steps to Spiritual SuperiorityThe Hate U GiveYou're Welcome, UniverseAngels for Beginners: Understand & Connect with Divine Guides & Guardians
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 68%

Start of Month:

Books on Shelf : 9
Books:


Feedback ratio: 89%


FINISHED
Review review review review

ADDED


End of Month:
Books on shelf: 6
Feedback Ratio:93%

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I'll do this again. Maybe this month I'll reach 100%!

Two books on shelf:

My ratio is 96% as I still don't get approved for many books.

Currently reading which is a retelling of Mansfield Park. It is adorable!

Added:
The Idea of You

Finished:
Seeking Mansfield
/review/show...

Mindfulness for Teens with ADHD: A Skill-Building Workbook to Help You Focus and Succeed
/review/show...

I'm in.

Beginning of Month

Books on shelf: 9


Netgalley ratio: 90%


End of month:

read: 1


reviews: 1
the Girl in the Garden review

added: 6


books on shelf: 14
ratio: 86%

NetGalley Challenge � March
Books on shelf: 17

Books:

- Rising by Sonya Weiss

Feedback Ratio: 90%

Books Added During the Month:


Read + Review:
review review review review review review review review review review review review review

Hi
I will do this as well. My ratio is low, I will be posting the requirements from Netgalley this week.

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I'm in again! Hopefully this month I'll read some rather than just adding.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 19
Feedback Ratio: 34%

Books:



Added:


Finished:
My review My review My review My review
My review My review My review My review

I also added and provided feedback on samplers for these two books.


End of Month:
Books on shelf: 20
Feedback Ratio: 50%

On Shelf 86
Ratio 74%
Goal 15 books-Did 11

On Shelf 80
Ratio 76%





The Unyielding
/review/show...
Pleasures of a Tempted Lady
/review/show...
My Kind of Christmas
/review/show...
Firestorm
/review/show...
Riot
/review/show...
Finding Kyle
/review/show...
The Rose at Twilight
/review/show...
Unsportsmanlike Conduct
/review/show...
Buck Naked
/review/show...
Token
/review/show...
How To Reprimand Your Rockstar
/review/show...

March starting Books on Shelf: 34
March starting ratio: 82%

Books that have been published: 18


Being published in March: 6


The rest: 11


Added in March: 6


Read and reviewed: 4
review review review review

Beginning of Month

Feedback Ratio 70%
Books on Shelf: 39

Planning to Read


Read & still to Review


Reviews Posted


Books Added:



Current

Feedback Ratio 75%
Books on Shelf 33

Finished
Review


I started this a few weeks back and finally got it done this morning!

Oh yay just saw this! Okay, here's my reserved post then

Ratio 75%
Shelf 29 books

To read:

How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 9
What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 62%

What books are on your NG shelf: (ordered by archived date)
(May/4/16) (May/5/16) (June/30/16) (July/6/16) (Oct/25/16) (pub. date: Jan. 17) (pub. date: Aug. 8) (pub. date: Feb. 24)

New (already!)
(pub. date: Apr. 4) (protected :( ) (already archived :( ) (pub. date: Apr. 4)

Read but not reviewed [feedback sent]


Read & Reviewed

End of the month(view spoiler)[
Updated books on your NetGalley shelf: 13
Updated Netgalley feedback ratio is: 54% (hide spoiler)]

Not to a great start. So I requested yesterday, but something came up that needed my immediate attention and when I came back (past midnight) I couldn't sent it to my Kindle anymore!

Its archive date is today but I thought that they let you get the book up to today :( guess not :/

I don't know what to do. I really wanted to read that one :(

I am so glad to be part of this challenge. I have books I've read but haven't reviewed. Thanks

Hat has happen to me, so I usually put it on hold at my library and then read it. Once the publisher sent me a copy, but it is expensive to post on Netgalley for the smaller publishers.

That's happened to me too. You can either wait and get it from your library, or send an email to the publisher and see if they'll email you a copy. Last resort is just send feedback from your netgalley shelf letting them know the situation and so you can't review it.

I just added . So, starting backwards again, but I plan to finish a couple this month.

Sometimes there are so many good books on the shelf!

I'm in will update later.

I was thrilled that I was approved for , so of course I'm reading it first this month instead of books that I've had much longer.

Lara - Sometimes I think it is better to read a book right when you are approved and let the others wait. I have tried reading the oldest books first and lost some interest in my newer ones by the time I get to them. If I read them right away, I know my interest level is still high.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "That's happened to me too. You can either wait and get it from your library, or send an email to the publisher and see if they'll email you a copy. Last resort is just send feedback from your netga..."

Michelle's wrote: "Hat has happen to me, so I usually put it on hold at my library and then read it. Once the publisher sent me a copy, but it is expensive to post on Netgalley for the smaller publishers."

Thank you guys, I'll definitely try to find a way to read before telling them that I can't review it (:

Eeek, was just updating my start of month post and realized I have 39 books on my shelf. How did that happen?

I really need to be strict with myself and not request anything else till I at least get below 30..... unless I see a book I'm desperate to read ;)

Question, you know when you are sent the email to say your request has been approved and it gives you a publisher email address to send a link to your review, do you ever email them directly? I've always just submitted the links through NetGalley, should I also be emailing the publisher directly?

I have always gone through Netgalley

Always gone through Netgalley as well.

Thanks, that's what I've always done. I just wondered when I was getting messages saying "please send an email to this address with the link to your reviews"

Look. I suppose you can do that as well. But you aren't going to get penalised if you don't, I suppose is what we are saying :)

I hate to admit it, but most of the time I don't even read the emails. I just see the yes you have or no you have not been approved and move on. I know sometimes they request you not to review until a certain date or such so I should read the emails. I just don't.

I did get one email that said I was approved, but they wanted everyone that received a copy to join their email list. I promptly ignored that. I wouldn't have requested it if I knew I had to join an email list and you put it on my shelf, so I'm not going to lower my rating because you want to improve your numbers. No, thank you. Here is my review anyway.

Also, I have never emailed a review to the publisher. I honestly don't know if it's ever been requested of me because, as I said above, I don't usually read the emails.

Most of the time I just skim the emails to see if I've been approved or not too. I just noticed in a recent email they'd asked me to send a link directly to a specific address.

I've never done it in the past but was wondering if it was just me and I'd end up on some blacklist.

I usually just send it through the link on Netgalley. Sometimes when one of the PR people contact me I will send though the link they give me.

1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf - 89
b: What books are on your NG shelf Since there is 89 books, I won't name them all but I am hoping to read at least 3 this month.

c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is 18%

2. During the month, read the NetGalley books that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)

3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:

a: What books you read
A Bead in the Hand
Old School/New School Mom
b: Link(s) to your review(s)**
/review/show...
/review/show...
c: Your updated shelf count
90 books. I managed to accrue even more books.
d: Your updated books to read
April I hope to read at least 3 more books.
e: Your updated ratio
19% It improved this month!

Kristie wrote: "I hate to admit it, but most of the time I don't even read the emails. I just see the yes you have or no you have not been approved and move on. I know sometimes they request you not to review unti..."

same here :o

Ok, I'm new to both this challenge and Netgalley. I got carried away a few months ago and requested too many. THEN forgot all about them. So, I am starting from the very beginning. This morning I was at 0%.

March 2017

How many books on your NetGalley shelf?
30

What books are on your NG shelf:




What your Netgalley feedback ratio is.
3%

It's easy to get carried away on NetGalley, Heather. Most of us have been there before. Welcome to the challenge.

Heather wrote: "Ok, I'm new to both this challenge and Netgalley. I got carried away a few months ago and requested too many. THEN forgot all about them. So, I am starting from the very beginning. This morning I w..."

Goodluck Heather, I've been there before too! Just start and try restrict yourself from requesting more (easier said then done though).

Hi
I request way to many books. My goal is finish them up by being part of the challenge.

I am at 38%

I have been a member since 2012.

Michelle

Kristie wrote: "I hate to admit it, but most of the time I don't even read the emails. I just see the yes you have or no you have not been approved and move on. I know sometimes they request you not to review unti..."

I don't even read the emails (right away), I just log into Netgalley everyday and check my dashboard :D

Michelle wrote: "I don't even read the emails (right away), I just log into Netgalley everyday and check my dashboard :D"

If I logged in to NetGalley every day, I'd never be caught up! I have to intentionally avoid it at times.

I wanted so badly that when I was declined it I practically cried.

....not really, but I am upset! ;)

OMG the idea of logging into Netgalley every day. Nope, I am never doing that one. *shakes head and backs away slowly*

I check in most days, just to make sure I don't miss something... but I don't allow myself to request things until I let them sit in my mind for a day or two. Most of the time. ~cough~

Heather wrote: "I wanted so badly that when I was declined it I practically cried.

....not really, but I am upset! ;)"

Ah yes, the "NOooooooooo...." feeling! I've been there and feel your pain. ;)

a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf 3 current but 114 total - I joined in 2010

b: What books are on your NG shelf



Read but not reviewed




c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is 28%

Hahaha, I wouldn't recommend it! I usually guilt myself into reading the books that I have but sometimes I end up requesting five books in two days. . . I have no self-control!