Thursday, September 29, 2005

New features: Find people who want to discuss your books – local and globally, online and in-person; and much more

Today we have introduced a set of new features. They make it easier to find other members who want to discuss the books/topics you are keen to discuss.

As soon as you log in you should see (on the right side of the screen) a listing of those who are interested in discussing your books with you. There is an option to see which of them (if any) who are local.

Now, you can also indicate if you want to discuss the books on your booklists in person and/or online.

Note, that those members who had checked the checkbox “I would like to be contacted by people who want to discuss books I have read or their topics”, will see that this setting has been moved to the individual books with an indication that they would like to discuss these books online. You should go and adjust your booklists in due time if there are some of the books on your booklists you don’t want to discuss online.

We have also introduced the ability to indicate if you are currently reading a book or if you have just finished it. You find this setting on the book-detail page. Just click on the title of a book on your booklist to go there. On that page you can now also see who is currently reading the book as well as anyone who wants to discuss it.

Maintaining your booklists has now also become easier. You can now move and copy books between booklists. Use this to organise your booklists in just the way you want them.

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Blog launched

This post marks the start of the ConnectViaBooks Blog.

I'll use this to keep you posted on anything related to ConnectViaBooks.com - especially new developments.