Thursday, September 08, 2005

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.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow! That is wonderful! Thank you, thank you! I am loving this site so much!

9/08/2005 8:14 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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!

9/08/2005 6:29 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Delightful site. Have you thought about creating an export to citation managers like Endnote, or BibTex or somesuch?

9/15/2005 5:38 AM  

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