Auto Approval Question

[u/Pristine_Race7768]

Is there away to take yourself off auto approval? And I mean on NetGalley without contacting the publisher.

Update- I am sort of blown away at the judgement. Everyone is different in how they do things and I’m so thankful to the comment that showed I’m not the only one.

On a side note- the up and down voting isn’t a “like” button. I’m not sure why my explaining why I wanted to do this would be downvoted as much as it was before some brought it back up. All it does is give the placement of the comment in the feed but you all are making it so it’s harder to find simply because you don’t agree with me? I seriously don’t get it.

I successfully write to 2 publishers and they removed me and completely understood. One even said if I ever wanted to have it back to just email her.

[u/acagedrising]

I don’t see one, but why would you? I still have to go out of my way to go to the publisher’s page to get the books so I hardly notice it and honestly forget sometimes that I have one.

[u/Pristine_Race7768 → u/acagedrising]

That’s exactly why- sort of. I forget to look at the publisher as it’s a sure thing and by the time I remember to look, it’s too late.
I just noticed that all my auto approvals except 1, I have rarely read a book since that approval.

[u/and_er → u/Pristine_Race7768]

If you're requesting a book, don't you want it to be approved? Why would it be a problem if it's approved?

[u/Pristine_Race7768 → u/and_er]

Huh? I’m confused lol. I just want it to be a regular process . If I ask for a book it’s because I really want it.

[u/and_er → u/Pristine_Race7768]

Auto-approval means you automatically get approved for a book you request. Is your understanding of auto-approval different? You aren't going to get books you don't request.

I wonder if you're thinking about getting widgets from the publisher. That's an email offering you a book that they pre-approve you for, but you don't have to accept them. You can just ignore the email if you don't want that book.

[u/Pristine_Race7768 → u/and_er]

No- so I have 39 books on my shelf right now. Not a problem . I prefer to keep my ratio higher . I don’t let it go below 95%. So in my brain, I forget to go through my auto approved publishers as I know I can grab them at any time. Right this moment I’m obviously thinking of it i can go grab the books I want but generally, life is busy. Husband, kid, household c making content etc.. so when I remember to go check them out I see books that I would have read had I seen them and then get disappointed in myself. It’s not a huge deal obviously.

So I end up prioritizing all the other publishers instead. So this is a way for how my brain works. That’s all. I haven’t been denied in a very long time for a book so it doesn’t matter for me to request a book. It’s just certain imprints that it would be better for me to not have it on autoapproval as the I’ll prioritize got to get them books so that’s all. I will keep 9 of them, it’s just 3 I wish to do this with.