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NetGalley’s Book Advocate Toolkit is an invaluable resource for both new and experienced book reviewers. This comprehensive guide offers practical advice on creating a standout NetGalley profile, maintaining a strong feedback ratio, and crafting compelling book reviews. It also provides tips for leveraging social media to share your reviews and build your bookish platform

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This has been really useful in learning information that will help me to best advocate for the authors on NetGalley and other platforms! Thank you NetGalley for creating this!

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The Book Advocate Toolkit is a very helpful resource for people new to NetGalley. I appreciated the thorough information, and it was divided and displayed in ways that were easy to understand. I look forward to the social media resources that are coming soon.

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This book is greatly appreciated for a brand new reviewer to NetGalley. I have downloaded and saved it for current and future reference. Thank you for this resource!

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This guide tells us all about how NetGalley works, I found this very helpful. If you're having some troubles with your bio or the site itself, definitely read this because I believe you will find your answer here.

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This was put together in a way that was quick and easy to review. I liked the guidance on how to handle a DNF review, something I have always wondered about. I wish I had access to this when I first started my NetGalley account two years ago, a lot of the information would have been very helpful for a new ARC reviewer!

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This is a wonderfully thorough guide to using Net Galley. I have been a member for many years and was thrilled to learn some new things.
The information is laid out well and very user friendly. I plan to refer back to it on what a review should include and several other subjects. This would be helpful to reread periodically. I hope they will update it as things change.

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An absolute essential read for anyone starting out using NetGalley and also a really useful resource for those that have been using NG frequently just to polish up on hints and tips. Especially helpful section on how to structure reviews.

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NetGalley’s Book Advocate Toolkit is a quick 31 page read that provides a solid base to get started reviewing books. There are also additional links throughout the the booklet that lead to more information to ensure success as a reviewer.

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The NetGalley Book Advocate Tool is a must-read! All NetGalley reviewers should go through this before doing anything else. It helps you understand how to navigate NetGalley, what publishers are looking for, and the importance of your feedback ratio. There are also helpful links for additional information. For writing reviews, I keep this downloaded and refer to the template to ensure I don’t forget anything. It’s truly a great reference tool!

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I found this toolkit extremely helpful in learning to navigate the NetGalley experience. I felt it gave good insight into creating a great bio and page that illuminates who I am as a reviewer to catch attention where needed. Overall, this was a great resource to keep and refer back to as I go about my reviewing journey with NetGalley!

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I actually didn't even use this book toolkit, but I did view it and it was really nice.It is a very useful toolkit for your books.

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Interesting guide with a lot of writting tips regarding the reviews, profile details and other useful tricks to help you become a valid member of NetGalley society. It is a short and handy toolkit with additional articules if you are more courious or would like to indeepth the theme.
Good for new members, so they would understand and address the Publishers' expectations, but also recommended to the experiences members, like me, to remind where is the profile, how to update the information, lots of dos and don'ts.

Recemended to all members of NetGalley.

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This is such a good guide!! Thank you for putting it together and making it so easily available for folks new to review writing/ARC reading!

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NetGalley's Book Advocate Toolkit is a resource for all of us who use this great platform to find and review new books. I'm glad I decided to download this book! While it had information I already knew, it also included some great suggestions and explanations. I feel more prepared to write better reviews, updated my profile to better attract publishers, and learned where to find different publisher's preferences.

Whether you've used NetGalley for a long time or are new, this is a great resource.

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An easy-to-follow toolkit that's covering all the required areas when starting out on NetGalley. It's harder to make mistakes after reading it, and easier to create meaningful reviews while being helpful to authors and publishers. I'm looking forward to the toolkit about social media that was featured in the book.

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Crazy that you need to give feedback on this for it to count on here. And that it has to be 100 characters for a "helpful tips".

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Thank you netgalley! This a super helpful tool to have and I appreciate that you are willing to put together free resources for your users to download.

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This is a short guide to Netgalley. It's especially helpful if you are, as I am, new to the platform.. Its less than forty pages, full of illustrations and examples and links to help uses navigate Netgalley. it gives tips on profiles and, most helpfully, on how to write useful book reviews. I thought its advice about audiobooks to comment on both the writing and narration was helpful. But I thought its example book review, in which the author thanks Netgalley for providing an ARC was strange, since providing reviews on the site implies the source of the ARC is Netgalley, and also no professional reviewer does this. Even so, this is a minor point. The guide is to the point and handy for anyone trying to navigate the website. Recommended.

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This guide is incredibly helpful on how to better curate your profile to better suit your bookish personality. The 'tips' and examples were easy to understand I felt they added great value to the toolkit. It was also insightful to see the different types of members and I wish I had gotten this guide when I first signed up! The section on navigating NetGalley is a gem, and I'm so happy it was included. Everything in the guide was handy, and as a reviewer I hope that everyone takes the opportunity to look at it and keep it on hand for aid when navigating all aspects of NetGalley!

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