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Great advice! Highly recommended to those new to book reviewing. It contains helpful hints and can be referred to periodically as a refresher.

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This is helpful, insightful, and easy to understand. It was a relief to discover I was doing most things correctly. Recommended to any NetGalley member whether a newbie or a more established member.

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Great hints and tips for writing the write reviews and sharing these on various platforms of social media. A lot of it becomes obvious and common knowledge the more you do but for starting out it’s a great guide. Not a lot else to say about this. It’s really useful.

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I'm new to NetGalley and I really appreciated this little bite of a guide full of straightforward and helpful hints on reviewing books, using different social media platforms and making your content more attractive.
Thank you NetGalley and We Are Bookish; this is a great reference that I'll come back to.

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The Book Advocate Toolkit contained a great deal of helpful information for someone like me who is new to NetGalley and the online bookish community! I will refer back to it in the future, I’m sure.

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Great tips! I will save this toolkit and use as a checklist for the upcoming year. There are a lot of things that go in to a book review post, and it is easy to forget some. This toolkit will be my trusty manual.

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As a newbie to NetGalley, I appreciated this concise, colorful guide to getting started. The "Book Advocate Toolkit" starts with the ins and outs of NetGalley (and that all-important feedback ratio!) and moves on to tips for getting started on other platforms. I'm not likely to join Booktube anytime soon, but I did pick up an idea or two for my next Canva project...an unexpected bonus of this kit. And a tip: don't miss the links in the toolkit - there aren't many of them, and they're generally useful.

It could be fun to have a whole series of this sort of toolkit - a Goodreads toolkit, perhaps, or a build-your-own-bookclub toolkit that plays on the strengths of the bookclub toolkits NetGalley offers for select individual books.

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Thank you for this amazing tool kit to help me get started in the bookish world and to be better at something that I have really enjoyed over the years. I love that alot of my questions about the book content world is right there in this book.

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Helpful tool to have, some great tips covering a large range of platforms. Having used some of the methods covered, I get approved for a much larger percentage of books than I used to so I highly recommend.

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This helped a lot with reviewer's block. I often finish an ARC and have no idea where to start with the review and it just takes up my mental energy for the day.

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This was super helpful in getting started with NetGalley and understanding how to get books and how to do reviews so that you get approved for more books! I recommend everyone read through this before getting started.

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The toolkit helped me get out of a review writing slump. It gave me new ideas for posting interesting and useful ARC reviews.

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This is a really handy guide, with tons of tips and tricks to help you get started, including breaking down relevant social media platforms to help you understand the type of content that does well on each site and how you can find your niche!

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This toolkit is helpful in learning how to better review and provide feedback for publishers on books beyond that of "I liked it" or "I didn't like it." It also provides insight into how to go about building a presence in the bookish community and getting involved as well.

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Thank you for this toolkit! A great guide for navigating NetGalley and online reviews, especially helpful if you are just starting out.

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Thank you, NetGalley, for providing a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.

I absolutely loved this book!

The format of the information is short and sweet but very informative. The pages have such a good visual layout. They mostly look like post-it notes or notepad paper on pale backgrounds. This was very refreshing and made a great change to the usual black text on white paper. I have a condition called visual stress, it makes it harder to read on high-contrast backgrounds, so the change in tones was highly appreciated.

The book contains basic tips across a variety of topics. I've read a lot of the book blogging help articles on the NetGalley blog, so I was concerned that this book might just repeat that information, but it didn't. There were links to useful NetGalley articles with further information at the end of the pages. I really liked this because it gave me a resource to follow for areas I wanted to learn more about.

The actual writing was very easy to follow. Everything was explained nicely and I honestly think anyone would be able to follow their tips. For example, I think even someone who is not very good at social media would be able to follow their social media guides. I found the social media section particularly useful because that's the area I'm the least confident in.

I'd highly recommend this to anyone who wants to write book reviews, regardless of the platform you're on. Even if you don't use NetGalley, there are still a lot of great tips and tricks.

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This book helped me to understand this site so much better. Now I know how to keep my rating up so I can get books I really want to read! Great tool!

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Great toolkit with solid bookish advice! I’m looking forward to improve my reviews and photos by implementing these ideas.

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NetGalley’s Book Advocate Toolkit by We Are Bookish is an incredible resource for book reviewers at any stage. It teaches in a concise and fun way how to succeed as a book reviewer in a world full of confusing platforms and fast paced trends. I will be implementing most of the tips, tricks and tools provided in this book to help jump start my own journey into a more professional form of reading and reviewing books. I would highly recommend this book to any person who is interested in becoming a reviewer as well as those who have been doing this for a long time, especially those using NetGalley as a source for reading material. All I can say is well done and thank you for the opportunity to read and learn from NetGalley’s Book Advocate Toolkit by We Are Bookish! Off to start my very own book blog and bookstagram!,

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This book has many good tips for improving your NetGalley profile.

I’m looking forward to delving into it further and putting some of it into practice on my own profile.

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