Well, I cranked out a quick and dirty / minimalist iPhone interface.
http://readers.livingsocial.com/iphone
You can only do a few things with it right now:
- Search for a book and update its status (so when you hear about a great book, you can search for it and mark it was ‘want to read’).
- Browse your already read, reading now, and want to read lists. If you finish a book on a park bench you can quickly update its status to ‘already read’ (all news feed items, profile updates, etc. will be posted as normal.. even if it’s not indicated on the iPhone interface).
Limitations (for the time being):
- ReadingSocial only.
- Must have/log in with your external ReadingSocial account (Facebook users: you will have to register for a full account and link your Facebook collection).
- Not paginated… only shows a handful of books per status (i.e. only the first 100 books on your want to read list are visible). I’ll implement pagination after the first person with a big collection asks for the feature.
- Must navigate to readers.livingsocial.com/iphone… I’m not going to force all iPhone users over to the new app yet since it’s just an experiment.
I was basically looking to scratch a personal itch… stick the (simpler) iPhone feature requests in the comments section here and I’ll see what I can do. I must admit, it is satisfying to be out and about and mark a book as ‘want to read’ on my iPhone and come back later and see it on my Facebook profile/news feed/etc.
