Half Ratings……what is the proper etiquette?
When you rate a book 3.5 stars, what do you put as the star rating? 3 or 4?
Or if it’s 2.5 stars, do you hit 2 or 3?
It’s always something that’s puzzled me. I mean your slap bang in the middle of 2 ratings……
It’s such a conundrum to me!
I think I almost always go for the higher rating but now I’m actually thinking about it, I should really start dishing out the lower rating on some of the books I read as maybe I am being over nice….
What do you do?
Do you ever think that Amazon/Goodreads will change and do half ratings ever?
CJRTB Books 
I’ve actually never given half stars on my blog coz I keep it consistent with Goodreads… but when I feel like a book deserves that half star, I usually go for the lower end… except when it’s 4.5, then I think I mark it as 5… I know, this is damn confusing… but I guess I just go by gut feeling 😊😊😊
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That’s a good outlook, I might try no half stars and see how I go! Thank you!
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Haha… have fun !!!
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Good question! If it let me down somehow I will round to the lower number if not or if I think it will carry the wrong message I aim for higher ….
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It’s all so worrying isn’t it! I think guilt has a lot to do with it of I’ve read the authors books before and loved them, I tend to go for higher!
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I remember another blogger chatting about this too. One suggestion was that the descriptions on Goodreads and Amazon ratings are a bit different. So based on those descriptions I end up rounding up on Amazon and down on Goodreads. Confusing but I can’t resist those half points in my reviews! Lol
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😂😂 yes, this! I might take a look at what Amazon and GR say in their descriptions! Thank you 😁
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When I created my blog, I was debating this issue a lot, because I can’t decide when to give half star…that is why I rate books from 1 to 10. When it comes to goodreads/Amazon, I use the “It was amazing”/”I liked it” etc. factor, because I dunno how to incorporate these half stars.
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Sometimes I sit their dazed as I just don’t know what to do!!!!
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I can feel your pain 😁
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😂
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I don’t use half stars only because I want my ratings to be as simple as possible … also Goodreads doesn’t have half stars so it’s easy to transfer my ratings from my blog to GR.
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I think I might give this a go 😁
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Excellent question…I hate it when this happens, LOL! I really try not to do half stars but if I must, I usually round up since I always like to give credit to the author’s hard work…😆
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That’s why I do it, I feel mean otherwise!
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Me, too! I try to appreciate all the energy put into the work, so I usually round up.
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Yes!!
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Interesting discussion topic! Sounds like you’re getting lots of different opinions here. I tend to round down for Goodreads (in general I tend to be more generous on my blog reviews)
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It’s a tricky thing to decide! I’m going to try no half stars for a bit and see how I get on!!!
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