To Trade or Not to Trade

Not everyone is completely certain that they want to ship a book that they have registered. Although this seems bizarre, it happened to me today. I knew I didn't really need to keep my copy of the Kite Runner, but I also wasn't quite sure I wanted to part with it. However, it was promptly requested and I am going to ship it out in a day.

For all those indecisive users out there, we have now added the ability to register books but temporarily mark them as "not for trade". Also you may just want to catalog all your books that you are not willing to part with and then casually decide when you want to offer them up for trade.
All of this can be done in the "my bookshelf" area.

-Dan

Invite Friends

Under each user's bookshelf is a referral link for friends. If someone signs up for whatsonmybookshelf using that link and registers 5 books, you will have 1 point credited to your account.

Feeds

There is now an RSS feed for the main page which is "Recently Added Books". There will be feeds on every page so you can subscribe to tags or users lists or authors or just about anything.

Revised Registration Promotion

For every 5 books registered you will receive 1 point. This is a change from the previous system which offered 1 point per registered book.

Books for MacOS X

CJKarr just recently created a powerful little WhatsOnMyBookshelf exporter for the Books cataloguing application.

You can add any of your books to WhatsOnMyBookshelf for trade extremely quickly and if you run OS X then I encourage you to check it out.

-Books Main Site
-Download Books
-Books Video Tour

Media Mail

Please use media mail when shipping books within the United States. It is by far the cheapest option.

I have received two books that were shipped using federal express and cost twice as much than the media mail cost.

For a listing of the price per pound to ship a book via media mail, check out the USPS.

[FYI some great features are coming within the next month.]

Library of Congress

WhatsOnMyBookshelf now pulls our book information from amazon and the library of congress to ensure that you will be able to register all books.

Keep Trading!

Ad Revenue

In order to cover some development costs we are now going to be running simple advertisements.

The text based ads will only appear above the title of each book.

If you wish to advertise on WhatsOnMyBookshelf, please go through Adbrite.

Updates

• If you are going on vacation or won't be around to ship out your books, there is now a "vacation" setting that you can check in the "my account" area. This will prevent your books from being requested until you uncheck the box.
• Tagging is now mandatory, since there were many books that were being submitted without any tag designation.
• For more information about the books that are available on WhatsOnMyBookshelf, there is a link in the book's profile to its corresponding page on LibraryThing.com.

Buy a T-shirt

We are proudly offering some basic shirts through Cafepress.com.

Support WhatsOnMyBookshelf by buying one of 4 shirts.

Browse by Author

Check it out

Database Down

Sorry for the past day. There has been a problem with the host of our database. It is all fixed and the reserve server is in place.

Feedback

There is now a simple feedback system in place for all orders!

Once a user acknowledges that they receive an order by clicking on "order received" they are given the opportunity to provide the shipper with feedback. You can rate the shipper with values raging from 0 (a horrible trading experience) to 5 (the best thing since sliced bread).

If an order is rejected you also have the opportunity to leave feedback.

This creates a level of accountability and will help ensure that the community is composed of quality users.

Country added to Book Listing

A very small fix, but necessary. The country is now listed in the book description.

Our API

Our API description can be found at:
http://whatsonmybookshelf.com/api/index.php

and an example test form exists here:
http://whatsonmybookshelf.com/api/test.php

We encourage any integration of book trading services with WhatsOnMyBookshelf, whether you are an individual, college organization, non-profit, or just simply want to enter the book trading realm.

[UPDATE] Simple url submissions via: http://www.whatsonmybookshelf.com/add_item.php?type=book&isbn=ISBN#HERE&add_confirm

or

http://www.whatsonmybookshelf.com/add_item.php?type=book&isbn=ISBN#HERE&add_confirm

Enjoy!

Refer a Friend

Running low on credits?? If you refer a friend to join WhatsOnMyBookshelf and they register a book, simply send your username and your friend's username to me:

[dan whatsonmybookshelf.com]

and 1 point will be awarded to your account.

Refer 5 friends, get 5 points....