Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone...and Merry belated Christmas!

Thank you for making the last 5 odd months a wonderful experience. We've constantly rolled out features and hope to continue this development pace in the New Year!


-Dan
dan [at] whatsonmybookshelf.com

Feeds

The rss feeds, for new books, each user, each author, and every tag indicated by , appear at the top of the respective pages.

Enjoy!!

Minor Updates

I apologize for some potential design strangeness that you may encounter during the next few days. I am cleaning up the layout to make navigation more convenient.

The old information box is now in the footer. The right sidebar will soon be gone.

Happy Holidays!!

Fighting Point Inflation

Users are racking up 100s of points from simply registering books. This is great, but we need to consider the whatonmybookshelf economy. Points, after significant book registering at 1 point per 5 books, become almost meaningless. Yes, we have the community investment system in place but it seems silly for users to be sitting on 50 points all from just registering books. After all isn't book trading about trading??

To combat this issue I have implemented a new point system.

For every 5 books that you register up to 100 books you get 1 point per book (you can get 20 points just from registering books!!). After registering 100 books on the site you no longer get the bonus because it is assumed that you will make your points by shipping books that users want. This is not a punishment but an even better incentive to register popular books that the community will request.

Book Aid

I want to encourage everyone to visit Book Aid International. I encountered their charity yesterday and am extremely impressed with both the organization and breadth of the outreach. Please consider either donating books or money, especially during this holiday season.

New Logo

We simplified the old logo, added a book, and tried to take up less real estate on the front page. Let us know what you think!

Poor, Fair, Good, Excellent

Choose one of these four choices when adding a book