Do you want comments?
Do people want the ability to leave comments? This is super easy to add. I'm picturing each profile has a section at the bottom that works like a guestbook. You can leave either a public or a private comment. The recipient can delete them. The sender can delete or edit his own. A user can turn off commenting, with all private libraries defaulted to comments-off.
I'm thinking it would be nice. But I don't want to turn this thing into "Friendster for books" as someone (wrongly) dubbed it. I may add the ability to "bookmark" other people's libraries, but the bookmarks will not be called "friends," with the inevitable "you're so-and-so's friend but they're not yours" dynamic. Besides, I hold to the traditional view that friends need to have been drunk together.
I'm thinking it would be nice. But I don't want to turn this thing into "Friendster for books" as someone (wrongly) dubbed it. I may add the ability to "bookmark" other people's libraries, but the bookmarks will not be called "friends," with the inevitable "you're so-and-so's friend but they're not yours" dynamic. Besides, I hold to the traditional view that friends need to have been drunk together.
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Wow! That is wonderful! Thank you, thank you! I am loving this site so much!
I'm not terribly interested in having the ability to leave a comment or testimonial regarding a specific user, but I think it might be cool to be able to leave comments regarding specific books - you know, a way to ask "is this book worth reading? did it have good information? is this a good translation?" etc. I don't know how much work that would entail though....
Being able to bookmark other libraries might be useful though, a way to virtually browse and keep track of interesting book collections.
Great job! Thank you so much for creating this site!
Delightful site. Have you thought about creating an export to citation managers like Endnote, or BibTex or somesuch?
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