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I still have most of my wishlists in Bookcrossing too, but since it's so much easier to find all sorts of stuff one would want to read in Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ, of course I have one here too. (the GR one being more accurate...)

But the problem with having just a shelf named "wishlist" is that you still need to have to read, reading, or read as status... which doesn't make sense for a book that is only on my wishlist!
If it's "to read", I already have that book.. at least how I reason it. So thatswhy I needed a wishlist... which will then also updated automatically when it's reading or to read.

I think I just found a perfect fix!

Create a bookshelf (or if you already have it, edit it from bookshelves) and then make it exclusive.
That way your books can be read, reading, to read, wishlist, too awful to finish (and anything else you wish) as in pick one category, then after that add any normal shelves you want it also classified it with.

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/9...
Or to create a wishlist http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/22...
and how to make a shelf exclusive http://www.goodreads.com/help#create_dnf

So much better!
If only there was a wishlist that was set this way by default... :)

Anna (aetm in BC)

I have lots of exclusive shelves - this is a very useful feature here. :)

I'm curious - which other exclusive shelves would you have? :)

I think 4 or 5 exclusives are enough for me (the defaults + wishlist, and maybe "too awful to finish" though I tend to set that to read + non-exclusive "too awful to finish" shelf).

Plus as non-exclusives the year I read it, bookcrossing (for any book I plan to release... usually the BC linky in private notes), then if it was from any giveaway etc. I'm not big in creating different genres as shelves...

Handy tip, thanks Anna. I haven't created any other exclusives of my own, though... yet.

I've got three 'exclusive' shelves - 'got bored so gave up', 'paused' (mostly for when I misplace books but plan on finishing them once I've found them again!), and 'released or to release without reading' which I created before I was going travelling for a few months and released lots of books, some of which I'd already added to Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ.

I'm starting to think I might also add "my friends might like this" as a recommendations shelf for books that I probably wouldn't really care about but a bunch of friends might.

I have a shelf called "great--gift-idea", because I do like to give books as gifts.

Anna wrote: "I still have most of my wishlists in Bookcrossing too, but since it's so much easier to find all sorts of stuff one would want to read in Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ, of course I have one here too. (the GR one being..."

Thanks for the tip, BTW -- I didn't know it was possible to create more exclusive shelves.

I too realized the "exclusive" shelf setting recently. I had a few books that I just couldn't or didn't want to read anymore, and I couldn't decide which status to choose. Creating the "unfinished" shelf as exclusive solved my problem:)

Also, I use "sticky" shelf setting to my TBR-per-year shelves, such as 'TBR-2010' and 'TBR-2011', so that those shelves appear on the top of non-exclusive shelves. This way, I can easily see how many TBRs I have from each year. This is to remind and encourage myself to reduce my older TBRs.

I have exclusive shelves "incompletely investigated" for books I thought looked interesting but don't know if they're at my library, "library-wishlist" for ones that are there that I want to read soon, and "library to-read" for lower-priority books.

I was getting too many exclusive shelves, imo, so I combined my "reference, skimmed, did-not-finish" onto one shelf - they're all books I don't want credit for reading, and for which I seldom give a star rating, but for which I do write reviews.