The first app built for book clubs and collectively curated by book clubs.For the first time ever, you and your club members can build a shared, private bookshelf that puts meeting details, RVSPs, discussion questions, book info, book club ratings and Amazon & iBooks links for your books at your fingertips--and sends automatic, customizable book club reminder emails to your members
You got an MVP. Every tweet probably has your affiliate link I guess?
What's next? You mention being an alternative to Good Read but are missing some of the reasons why I continue to log into Good Read... which is the community and social aspects.
Maybe y'all can accommodate book clubs? That might be cool.
I've been waiting so long for a better looking, more user-friendly alternative to Goodreads... was so excited when I saw this on PH earlier this week, and so amazingly let down once I tried it today.
The process for adding books is so incredibly broken. I should be able to just type an author's name, then just "add to library" for any books they've written that I've read. Instead I have to do it one-by-one... each time the search clears so I have to type the author's name again
Then once you've added all your books, there's nothing really to do. Yeah, you can see them in a grid, but so what? I just want to load in my existing amazon purchases, as well as other books I own, and get recommendations on what else I might be interested in reading.
I'm not going to share my library with my social network, or buy the books I already own. This seems like a failed amazon affiliate grab more than an actual attempt to build something useful.
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Hi. Thanks for clean design. Do you have any kind of recommendations or top pics for different kinds of books?
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« Sorry, we no longer serve users in the EU due to GDPR restrictions »
I don't mean to sound harsh but how is it that Facebook operates pretty much normally under GDPR (and their whole business model is collecting private data), yet a book club website is unable to?
Maybe not serving EU citizens is kind of an overreaction? I can use a VPN sure, but too much work to access a single website.
1- Give directly focus on the input zone when adding new books. It's tiring to drag the mouse in again and again
2- Find some inventive way to add new books. Here are some suggestions :
*add books from previous platforms: Amazon reading list, Goodreads...
*make possible to choose tag about authors and categories and books should appear and you have just to check them with check button to add them all at once (add single book each time is tiring)
3-make possible to organize books by collections and each collection can be assigned to a knowledge tree. So people who have read a lot of books can easily guide newcomers to where to start and the path to go to become master in a domain.
4-add notes or badge to users whose collections or knowledge tree are shared the most and who respond to newcomers in the domains their knowledge trees are about. A system like Wikipedia or StackOverflow
*help the collection and knowledge trees owners demonstrate their expertise by making periodic quiz and challenges about their domains (you can guess by the kind of book they read)
5- Find a way to bring already successful authors (for eg: by creating a profile for them they can claim later) and make possible to people to interact with them by asking questions about their books
6- Business model suggestion: Use data about collections and knowledge trees accessed by users to advertise newly released books to a specific target.
7- Use renowned expert in some domain (eg: Bill Gates, Marc Zuck, Steve Blank, Sean Ellis...) create a profile for them and import their read books to apply when possible the above suggestions
8- a last but not urging thing to add: make possible to add a comment about a book and half-start for more specific notes about books
That's all for now. If I find something new, will edit and update this post
Pros:
I love the design. It's clean and easy to use.
Cons:
See below
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Love this, GoodReads was frustrating to the point that I have been using a Trello board for this purpose for the last few years. Only thing I'd like to see added is a "to read" list to keep track of the books I have on my radar but haven't had time for yet
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Hi @jrdngonen !
Some suggestions :
1- Give directly focus on the input zone when adding new books. It's tiring to drag the mouse in again and again
2- Find some inventive way to add new books. Here are some suggestions :
*add books from previous platforms: Amazon reading list, Goodreads...
*make possible to choose tag about authors and categories and books should appear and you have just to check them with check button to add them all at once (add single book each time is tiring)
3-make possible to organize books by collections and each collection can be assigned to a knowledge tree. So people who have read a lot of books can easily guide newcomers to where to start and the path to go to become master in a domain.
4-add notes or badge to users whose collections or knowledge tree are shared the most and who respond to newcomers in the domains their knowledge trees are about. A system like Wikipedia or StackOverflow
*help the collection and knowledge trees owners demonstrate their expertise by making periodic quiz and challenges about their domains (you can guess by the kind of book they read)
5- Find a way to bring already successful authors (for eg: by creating a profile for them they can claim later) and make possible to people to interact with them by asking questions about their books
6- Business model suggestion: Use data about collections and knowledge trees accessed by users to advertise newly released books to a specific target.
7- Use renowned expert in some domain (eg: Bill Gates, Marc Zuck, Steve Blank, Sean Ellis...) create a profile for them and import their read books to apply when possible the above suggestions
8- a last but not urging thing to add: make possible to add a comment about a book and half-start for more specific notes about books
That's all for now. If I find something new, will edit and update this post
Pros:I love the design. It's clean and easy to use.
Cons:See below
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