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A helpful guide when trying to use the digital reading journal NetGalley offers!

I was struggling to figure out how to use the tabs in my goodnotes app - turns out, I just needed to toggle one setting! Who knew!

Short and sweet. If you're thinking of getting into digital Journaling and want a template to start, check it out and definitely give the instructions a skim.

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This was a helpful user guide for the free NetGalley book journal. It outlines how to use the journal and states which devices the journal works best on. I found it very informative.

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The reading journal was very helpful with making sure that I stayed on track and remembered what I was reading. This journal helped me remember key points in stories so that I am able to review in a timely manner and not forget anything important. I will definitely continue to utilize.

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Amazing guide that gives step by step instructions on how to use the journal with bonus stickers! Thank you for putting this together Netgalley!

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This guide explains how to better use a reading journal. I found out that there are apps where you can fill out this journal. All the steps are described in detail. Personally, I’ve never used such apps before, so I got a lot of useful information.

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This was my first experience using a reading journal in electronic form. The user guide is easily understandable even for a novice user. It definitely helps to have the user guide open in a tab simultaneously with the reading journal so that the user can toggle back and forth.

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A helpful guide for using the NetGalley reading journal to its full potential. Thank you NetGalley for putting it together!

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I wish there were more options for viewing and editing the journal, great concept though, some of the fonts are hard to read

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I appreciate having this reading journal for all my books this year. I like having a place to put down my thoughts and this is a great way of doing that without spending a lot of money.

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This guide was helpful very helpful. Everything was clear and easy to follow, and it had a great FAQ in the back of the book as well.
I think this would be a great resource for anyone new to digital journaling.

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These directions are clear enough for even me to follow lol Im an absolute beginner at digital journaling, hadn't even heard of Xodo before, so this is really exciting to finally get set up and ready to rock 2025 Book Journaling!
Thank You! xox

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This is really helpful for people like me and who are book reviewers and want to improve ourselves and use the netgalley and its perks understanding how to be good reviewer.

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Last time I downloaded a digital journal, I printed it out and wrote on it manually - I am clearly a person who needs a guide! Now I've set up a Xodo account and I'm excited to try out the digital journal. I appreciate that this was clear and concise, so I can spend more time reading and journaling, and less time reading complex instructions I don't need. Thanks, We Are Bookish!

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I downloaded the reading journal and it made sense to download the guide too which is as useful as I’d hoped. Many thanks.

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This guide was well laid out and held lots of useful info. However it doesn’t seem like Goodnotes is free anymore to allow you to edit the journal but you can currently buy it for £9.99 a year which is cheaper than an adobe subscription. I would definitely recommend reading this before using the journal for some useful tips.

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Awesome guide to use the Netgalley Journal.
Looking forward to use this Reading Journal in 2025. It think this is going to help me organize and track my reading progress.

Thank you Netgalley.

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This guide was easy to navigate and answered all of the questions I had to be able to set up my book journal.

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Great resource to go with the Reading Journal. This helps the reader to understand how to use with Goodnotes (for iOS) and get the most out of the main journal and the additional downloads.

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I'm really enjoying the NetGalley Reading Journal! It's nice to have a place to have a picture representation of what I've read for the year.

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This was very helpful when I used the Reading journal. It gave me some great tips and is very user friendly.

If you are going to use the journal I recommend this too

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