The Read Requests page holds all of them

Click your avatar at the top right of any page and choose Read Requests from the dropdown:

It is the one place that carries every read request you are part of, in both directions - the ones other members have sent you about your screenplays, and the ones you have sent about theirs.

Waiting for your answer

At the top of the page are the requests other members have made for your screenplays, each with the name of the member asking, the date they asked and whatever note they wrote you. Two buttons sit beside each one: Approve and Decline.

Approving asks you two more questions before it is done. The first is what they may do - read your screenplay, or read it and leave comments - and the second, which is optional, is a date on which their access should end. Leave the date empty and the access simply stands until you remove it.

Either answer is emailed to the member straight away, so there is nothing further for you to do once you have clicked. An approved request also appears in the Invitations/Requests widget on that screenplay's own summary page, marked as something you approved rather than something you offered.

Requests you have acted on

Underneath is the record of what you have already decided: the screenplay, the member who asked, what you said, when they asked and when you answered. Answered requests move down here on their own, so the list at the top of the page only ever holds work that is actually waiting on you.

Requests you have sent

At the foot of the page are your own requests to other members, each showing when you asked and where it stands:

• Waiting - the author has not answered yet
• Approved - the screenplay is yours to read, and is in your Scripts Shared with Me widget
• Declined - the author has said no

The screenplay titles here are links. An approved one opens the screenplay itself; one still waiting, or declined, opens its page in the Script Library, where the same answer is spelled out in words. Member names are links too, to that member's profile. Wherever one of them takes you, there is a Read Requests button at the top of the page to bring you back.

On the Script Library itself

You do not have to come to this page to be reminded. Any card in the Script Library for a screenplay you have asked about carries a small mark of its own: an amber hourglass for one you are waiting on, a green tick for one that was approved, and a grey cross for one that was declined. Hover over the mark and it tells you the date.

So you know: The filter panel down the left of the Library has a Scripts I asked to read box as well, which narrows the whole wall to exactly those screenplays - waiting, approved and declined together. It only appears once you have asked for something.

The emails

We email an author when somebody asks for one of their screenplays, and we email the member when an author answers. Both can be turned off in your notification settings if you would rather not have them - the Read Requests page is the record either way, and nothing is lost by switching the emails off.