TLGabelman wrote:Cana tab for 'our bookshelf' be add to the top of the page in the forum home? Make sense.
@TLGabelman yes, done.
TLGabelman wrote:Also is there a way to search for covers of a book we have added instead of uploading a cover....maybe I'm using incorrectly
I am not sure if I know what you mean. Do you mean searching for them from some external database?
If you add a book to your list that someone else has in their list, and that other person uploads a cover, then the cover will show across all lists. Even if you type in 'add book manually', if it already exists on someone else's list your new addition will automatically be connected to theirs. Of course, this latter feature only works if the title and author are written the same way.
Uploading a cover is optional, but I put a lot of emphasis on covers because it's a lot more pleasant than looking at walls of text. Plus it gives that feel of having an actual virtual bookshelf. One thing I think people miss about the days before ereaders is having that real life bookshelf full of the books you have read, and the stacks of actual books you plan on reading. And it was social because when people come over your home or office they look over your bookshelves. So I hope we can bring all that to the digital age.
I am also sure that I can at some point pull the book cover from some external source using the ISBN, but that would require a member to add the ISBN which could be just as tedious.
But for each book only one person has to take the time to upload a cover, not every person who wants to add that book to their shelf. Because it is almost no books you add have already been added and thus almost no books have covers. But in some time I imagine that the opposite will be true. When you go to 'add' a book, it will already have been added by someone else and the cover will already be there. If 100 people have a certain book on any one of their lists, then only 1 of those 100 people has to upload a cover for it to show for all 100 people.
-- 06 Jan 2015 06:54 pm --
Fran wrote:You will give us a like from the Home Page won't you?

I'm not sure what you mean?
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