Show HN: Bookqueue, The Antisocial Bookshelf Application

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by caffo • 15 years ago

8 4 15 years ago

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Hi guys.

I’m looking for some feedback from the great HN community. I just soft launched the beta version of my humble bookshelf application, bookqueue. I've been working on it as a pet project since 2007. The idea is having a place to track all books you have been reading and having some nice stats around it, with less focus in the social aspects.

My own queue can be found here: http://bookqueue.net/caffo

You can also create your own at http://bookqueue.net/

Thanks!

bunchesofdonald• 15 years ago

I really like the idea. I often will buy books, intending to read them (someday), and then promptly forget that I have them. This would be great for that, and I like the past stats for how many pages/books I've read.

Here are some notes I took while playing with the site:

1. It would be great to have a way to add multiple books to your queue at the same time, or at least to not have to re-do your search after you've added a book. Especially when you're loading in a back-log.

2. Have more than 10 search results.

3. If you hit the back button, after a book has been added, you get the book twice. (It happened when I added Anathem to the 'will read' list.)

4. Make Author name clickable, so it shows a list of books by that author.

5. Why would I want to edit the description/title/author of a book that's already in the system? I think you might consider making this an admin function and have a way to submit changes, rather than letting users deal directly with that.

6. It would be great to have a recommendation system, or maybe more orthogonal to the system would be to specifically recommend someone's next book. I know I often have problems deciding what my next book should be.

caffo2• 15 years ago

Thanks for your considerations. I think all of them make real sense and will add them to the development schedule. Recommendations are almost done.

adam-_-• 15 years ago

Absolutely lovely design, great job!

One point: it wasn't immediately obvious to me that the right hand logo was a clickable logo back to the homepage.

.net as TLD for a webapp feels a bit odd too but it's probably fine for beta.

caffo2• 15 years ago

Thanks! I'm going to remove this link for now. Still trying to find something useful to do with that logo.

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