Hi!
When you look up a book on Shelfari, you get a little green "edit" button under the picture of the cover. The options, on the top, in check boxes beside them, are" To be Read", "Reading Now", and "I have read". Well, the wording might be slightly different.
Below the checked boxes are three icons. You click on them if you want to. If you run the cursor over then, they will tell you what they are for.
The first looks like a valentine heart: Favorite. For books you really, really, REALLY like. If you click this, the heart will appear on your read list under the picture of your book cover on your "Books I've Read" list.
The middle icon looks kind of like three trash cans to me. Not sure what the icon is really suppose to represent. This IS your WISH list...the books you want to read but don't have now. (Me, I use the wish list for any book that looks interesting, not necessarily ones I want to own, but read...because I check out books at the library, not just buy them.) Click on this if and the books gets added to your wish list.
The last icon looks kind of like a square (a representation of a book, maybe???). You can click this icon for books you own.
Underneath all this is some wording which you click if you want to remove a book from your bookshelf...and that means ALL lists...the three read lists and the three icon lists. If you decide you want to list the book later, you will have to re-add it.
OK. On your homepage, you bookshelf shows the total of all the books you have posted, regardless of on what list they are on.
You can access your wish list, or anyone else's, by two ways.
The easiest for me is to just click the "Shelf" button. This automatically brings up your "Books I've Read" showing the book covers. On the sidebar, your or your friend's lists are broken down: "To Be Read", "Reading Now", "Read", "Favorites", "Wish", and "Own", with the number of books on each list. You click on the link to bring up a list you want, like the wish list. Also, any icons that you clicked will appear in the cornor of the bookcover pic. Another icon that may appear at the top of the bookcover looks like a note. That indicates that you or your friend has written a review for the book.
The other way to access the wish list, or any other subdivision list on the shelf is to hit the drop-down arrow by the "Shelf" on your homepage. This will show all of the lists plus the number of books on each list. You click on the list you want.
Another thing that I find helpful is, if I don't want to look at a bunch of bookcovers, there is the option on the bookshelf, and, I THINK, on the dropdown list, to just show the list more of a printed or Excel spreadsheet. The bookcovers are still shown, but very tiny on the side.
One list thing, from the bookshelf, you can change any information you want about the books on your own shelf. You just run your cursor over the rating stars and the "Edit" dropdown comes up. On the spreadsheet or text version, there are check boxes to change the infro.
I hope this helps. Sorry for the wordiness.
Marguerite
