Reads Action

For developers building book apps, Facebook provides a common books.reads action. This action signals that a person has read a book.

This action can only refer to the common books.book object.

This action and associated object types are automatically added to the App Dashboard when you use the action for the first time.

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Code Samples and Reference

You can find platform-specific code samples on how to create, read, update, or delete a books.reads action in the API Reference Guide.

Submission Criteria

Custom read, rate, or review actions connected with book objects are no longer accepted. Please use the standard actions.

When you submit these actions, please remember to keep in mind the following:

  • If your app enables users to manually indicate that they've read a mass number of books at once, you should turn off feed stories for those actions (no_feed_story=1)

  • All book objects must have correct metadata, including the proper Author, Title, and be a real book with ISBN. Additionally, each image should display the entire cover so as to avoid getting cut off. Please do not use the book object to represent magazines, blogs, newspapers, periodicals, or other forms of literature.

Find more information on the submission process Open Graph Stories