Sharing a quote from a book
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While reading on Booklabria, select a passage and Share a quote: it becomes a Quote post on your Reading Life with the book's chip and the chapter, up to 300 characters, public or to your followers. Authors can set a shorter cap per book, down to none; a book that is not out yet cannot be quoted from any copy until its release day, and a free story with no book page cannot be quoted at all. Where quoting waits, the tool is simply not there.
The short answer
How it works
In the reader on Booklabria (a copy you read here, an early copy on a read-on-Booklabria campaign, or a sample of a book from an author), select a passage and press Share a quote. A composer opens with the passage as written in the book, the book's chip (cover, title, pen name) and the chapter attached, the count against the cap, room for your line, and the spoiler choice (No spoilers or Spoils up to chapter 3). The quote cannot be edited, only trimmed; the book, the chapter and the pen name cannot be removed. Post it to Public or Followers, as any Reading Life post (Reading Life posts); a public quote also shows on the book's page under Quotes. There is no private option: a quote kept to yourself would be a highlight, and highlights are not a thing here.
The limits
- 300 characters of the book's text at most, per quote; the composer counts down. An author can set a shorter cap for a book (150) or no quotes at all (0). Where an author allows no quotes, there is nothing to press: the passage does not select and the toolbar does not appear.
- A book that is not out cannot be quoted yet, whichever copy you are reading: an early copy, a giveaway copy, or a sample of a coming-soon book. Until the release day the reader does not offer the tool at all, so nothing in the text selects; on the release day the same passage can go up.
- A quote needs a book: a standalone free story with no book page cannot be quoted; a sample of a book can.
- The quote always carries the book and the author; it cannot be posted without the chip, and it never links to a store: the chip opens the book page, which does that.
- Text you did not read here (a downloaded copy, a paper book) can still be quoted by typing it into a normal Reading Life post; the Share a quote button is only inside the reader.
For the author
The cap is yours, per book, under Studio › Catalog › The Salt Road › Sharing: 300 (the default), 150, or 0, no quotes at all. It applies to every copy of the book, early copies included once the book is out. Authors do not share quotes of their own books; an author's passage is an Excerpt in the Journal (The Author Journal).
Where this lives
Related
- Reading Life posts: The composer at the top of Home posts a reading moment to your profile and your followers' feeds (started, finished, progress, a recommendation, a question, a poll and twenty more formats), each with an audience: Public, Followers or Only me. Edit or delete yours from the ⋯ menu.
- Reading or downloading your early copy, and how the file is protected: The author chooses per campaign how you receive an approved early copy, and may offer more than one way for you to pick from: you read it on Booklabria (the file stays on the server, you open it from My early copies, your progress is saved as you read), you download a protected copy through a link that expires fifteen minutes after it is issued (five downloads per approval, every one logged, every EPUB watermarked), or, if the author offers Send to Kindle, we e-mail the watermarked EPUB to your own Kindle address (five sends per approval). If a link expires, ask for a fresh one; if you reach a limit, write to the author or support.
- Who sees what: profile visibility: Settings › Privacy sets your whole profile to public, followers only or private, and your library, reading progress, activity and follower list each on their own. Your follow-through is a fifth setting: by default only the authors you request a copy from see it. Author pages are public by nature; what an author keeps private is the library and activity.
- Writing reviews: A review is a star rating (press a star for a whole one, or use Exact rating for any quarter step) with an optional title and a body of at least 20 characters, plus a spoiler flag; edit or delete it from the book page. You can also say how the book felt, up to three moods and a pace; the book's page shows what most readers found once five have said. Reviews of early copies carry the early reader badge and one extra rule, honesty.
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