Thanks for the tips. I tried to create that My Reviews page and when I tried it out, I got a lot of other people's reviews and your blog posts. I deleted it and I feel defeated by booklikes. I can't seem to find the patience to customize.
I think if you were using "Reviews from AH" as your unique tag that maybe it was also finding any post mentioning review(s) and that "AH" commented on, posted or that did have that tag. Try editing one of your reviews to have a tag like "AHReviews" or "Reviews from AHBadAss" or some other tag and see if you can make a page that just shows that one; then experiment with tag options to find one you like that works. (When I search for "Reviews from AH" I get the same results you did, with this post on top because it mentioned "Reviews" "from" and "AH" was in comments.)
Even if you don't want to customize your blog page, finding a unique tagline for your reviews really helps to search out the things manually. I only like the Tumblr style dashboard when just looking for a few fresh posts -- miserable scrolling down dashboard, blog or timeline to find stuff.
Not from this particular method which searches by tags -- tag searching is available on dashboard feed and dashboard blog (where you write the reviews/posts). On your actual blog whatever.booklikes.com you can see a feed style scroll of recent posts or a single post but to do any searching isn't an available option.
You can program almost anything into html/css codes so I'm sure there's a way to customize to handle.
You can use an outside search engine to locate. For example my blog is "donealrice.booklikes.com" and tag is "Reviews from Spurts" so I could tell google or other search engines to look for:
"Reviews from Spurts" site:donealrice.booklikes.com
I haven't had a lot of time to figure out all the html/css/twig stuff at booklikes or how it changes from dashboard to the different blog pages.
I'm honestly waiting for booklikes Thursday new feature announcements to say they are finally combining editions of a work so reviews of a book are visible on all editions, to have an easy feature to see friends' reviews, an easier way to just have a "my reviews" view on your blog, etc.
OMG thank you so much. I'm very new here and currently going through all my reviews, fixing the covers and links, etc that didn't make the crossover from Goodreads. This is going to be so helpful. Reblogging this so I'll have it and checking out your blog. Ty so much ;)
The date thing was for moving hundreds or thousands of reviews over manually or via import. In that case, not changing date to something other than "now" would mean flooding everyone's current dashboard with post after post of just your reviews. Could change it to just a few days ago (not necessarily the read date) and still be able to find easily scrolling down your blog tab. Or change to post a few every few days instead of all at once flooding everyone.
By adding a unique tag name to all your reviews, you should never lose one. Just go to the blog tab instead of dashboard and search by the tag or make a dedicated page that searches (redirects) for you.
Well, a couple of months ago booklikes said within three months they should have an actual book database in place. Sorting and searching here are both wonky (I never trust searching my own bookshelves because it fails so often to find book titles and authors I can actually see on my shelf) . I miss comparing books with other reviewers like you could do on Visual Bookshelf, Shelfari, goodreads, The Reading Room, and all the other book sites. It's not enough to get a comparison that when joining booklikes you check off which main genres you read. The "explore" tab has been pretty useless to me. I have had some luck searching dashboard for recent books I liked; but, it's not a substitution for comparing books with another reader.
I actually have a shitload to add to that shelf, starting with the convenient signatures on that one real-name petition calling itself anti-bullying (golly gee whiz cannot imagine why so many of the authors signing are also asking for email and contact info also be publicly displayed as of course no author ever bullies a reviewer or sends minions after them so would never want to contact them in a way amazon support could not remove and no potential book buyer would see *sarcasm*). And from a lot of posts here and elsewhere. It just takes me a while because just because someone calls them a bba doesn't mean I agree; I have to read links and screenshots for the author's own words first.
The compare books will require booklikes having a book database versus just linking to a bookseller's page for the book. As it is, if we both shelve the exact same isbn paperback but I got mine at Book Depository and you got yours at Powell's —a book compare on booklikes would not find. Ditto for seeing on reviews of a book on the book page. And the average rating will be pulled from BD and Powell's giving weird things like having 12 booklikes 2-star reviews but showing an average star rating of four ... kind of weird because before last year when booklikes decided to try to be a booklovers community to compete with gr, they were trying to be a book recommendation engine so logically you'd expect book comparisons to be a priority...
You can program almost anything into html/css codes so I'm sure there's a way to customize to handle.
You can use an outside search engine to locate. For example my blog is "donealrice.booklikes.com" and tag is "Reviews from Spurts" so I could tell google or other search engines to look for:
"Reviews from Spurts" site:donealrice.booklikes.com
I haven't had a lot of time to figure out all the html/css/twig stuff at booklikes or how it changes from dashboard to the different blog pages.
By adding a unique tag name to all your reviews, you should never lose one. Just go to the blog tab instead of dashboard and search by the tag or make a dedicated page that searches (redirects) for you.
The compare books will require booklikes having a book database versus just linking to a bookseller's page for the book. As it is, if we both shelve the exact same isbn paperback but I got mine at Book Depository and you got yours at Powell's —a book compare on booklikes would not find. Ditto for seeing on reviews of a book on the book page. And the average rating will be pulled from BD and Powell's giving weird things like having 12 booklikes 2-star reviews but showing an average star rating of four ... kind of weird because before last year when booklikes decided to try to be a booklovers community to compete with gr, they were trying to be a book recommendation engine so logically you'd expect book comparisons to be a priority...