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Great! Thank you for the free resource It has been really helpful starting out on this site!

It has given me an invaluable insight and advice into how to develop my profile and write reviews!

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A helpful guide to how to best use netgalley. I wish I would've had this when I first joined the site, but it was nice to read over.

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This is a really helpful guide to NetGalley - especially for a new user, it's a really great place to start.

I picked up lots of useful tips and advice, and it reminded me to link my NetGalley account to my kindle.

The section on writing reviews will be invaluable and I'm sure I'll refer back to it often.

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This guide was so helpful in knowing how to start on NetGalley and really excited me for the beginning of this journey! It helps that the presentation is so cute and well put together. I really liked the additional tips on what makes a good review, especially as someone who is just getting started in this space. It's useful to know both what makes a good review from the opinion of the reader, but also to the publisher themselves as well.

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A comprehensive guide on how to use NetGalley and how to become a better book advocate. This guide helped me to understand my mistakes and gave me new insight on how to write better reviews

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U found this super helpful! As someone already familiar with NetGalley, I found the first half of this guide to be a good review and appreciated the tips provided in the second half.

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This toolkit is incredibly helpful and definitely a must for anyone looking to delve into ARCs. I can totally see myself referencing this one again in future! Thank you, NetGalley!

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In today's digital age, there are a lot of opportunities to apply your interests in fun, new and different ways. Writing book reviews is one. This booklet is meant to help you navigate how to put your best foot forward on NetGalley.

At 30 pages, the booklet isn't an exhaustive guide and it's not exhausting to read. It focuses on offering concise, easy-to-follow advice on making the most of your NetGalley profile and presence. The author provides simple, step-by-step instructions and hot tips. The writing is clear, the tone is friendly, and it does well to avoid technical jargon, making it accessible for everyone.

It's worth a read. Just know that if you download it, you need to write a review for it. The other advice I would have like to have known is that it's a short read, so don't stress trying to figure out how to download it to your Kindle/e-Reader. I made several attempts to do so and finally tried just looking at the download.

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I didn’t even know this little toolkit existed! This is super helpful especially going into the new year and requesting ARCS! Lots of great tips when starting out and creating your profile. I can’t recommend NetGalley enough—so so grateful for their platform!

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I must have been too excited to notice this book when I first started using NetGalley about a month ago, but it was so helpful to have many of my questions on what to do if I don't necessarily find a book to my liking, why my request may be denied and how to improve my profile overall. It also gave me tips I didn't know I needed and would obviously recommend starting out with this book when starting your journey.

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Found this super helpful as a reviewer. I've been on this site for a couple years now but liked that Netgally sent this out to us.

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I honestly like how this gives tips and insights on reviewers and publishers and helps with the relationships between the two. Great read for anyone!

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I'm grateful for this orientation. It shows this company's commitment to creating great relationships between reviewers and publishers by educating reviewers, making sure that the technology/platform is navigable and setting appropriate expectations.

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Learnt quite a few things about Netgalley that I didn't know before. The guide was very helpful. I updated my reviewer profile which I hadn't done in many years.

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This was a short and sweet guide to introduce new users to NetGalley! It contained all of the information needed to begin the wondrous journey of reviewing ARCs, DRCs, and ALCs. As a graphic designer, the design looks outdated and could use a facelift, but overall, serves its purpose of being concise and informative.

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This guide is super helpful! As someone who has reviewed some but wants to start improving the quality of the reviews I write, this was super helpful to teach me what publishers are looking for in reviews!

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This was exactly what I needed to set up my profile on NetGalley. Using this toolkit, I setup my reader/reviewer profile so that I will be successful in being approved for ARCs to review on my social media sites.

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This is a nice basic toolkit to get someone started on this website. I like that it is a lot of information condensed well and made up nicely with graphics.

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This toolkit was helpful in reframing how I view my NetGalley account and profile. I didn't really realize there was a way to write it so I'm glad I stumbled across this toolkit.

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I didn't end up using this because I'm really bad at using this website and social media. Maybe in the future I'll try using this later in the year.

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