cornerhouse says:

It seems to me that there are a couple of lists missing...

Books I'm Watching
I like the book-watch feature quite a bit, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere in my user account where I can get a list of the books that I'm watching.

TBR Pile
We've got books read and books reading, so it makes sense that there be a Books to Read in future list and a way to move a book from this list to the current reading list. This could be as simple as an Add to Reading List link, or something that relies on a start date in the same way that the books read list relies on date finished + checkbox. I'd prefer the latter, as it would allow all three lists to work in the same way.

#1 Posted 1 years ago

danchamp says:

There will soon be a view of all of your stuff on the site, including book watches, group and topic watches, comments you've made on reviews and made on your reviews. Like an activity log for everything you've touched.

Re TBR Pile - this is straying away slightly from the core purpose of the site which is to see what people are reading right now, read reviews of books they've finished, and see what their favourite books are. Having said that I know that some users are treating their reading list as a TBR list, so you're probably right. :-)

I like your idea of a general reading list, with an editable start date for books you really are reading now, and a finish date for those you've finished.

There's not a great deal of work in adding something like that, I'll get on to it once the bug fixes are clear.

#2 Posted 1 years ago

cornerhouse says:

You're right -- in the end, it's all one list with 3 states: future, current, past.

Looking forward to the other lists. After all, it's the multiplicity of views of data that make an application like this useful and interesting.

#3 Posted 1 years ago