Friends + Books = Awesomeness 10

Posted by Tim
on Wednesday, September 03
Here at ReadingSocial, we've been spending a lot of time figuring out how we can improve one of the most important pages within site: the book page. We thought that was incredibly important, because well, the site is all about books after all! A few key things we tried to improve:

- Your friends: Something that we've been working on for some time is the ability to let you know if you're friends have read or have any opinions on the books you're looking at. So, you'll now see a new "Your Friends" section if one of your friends has the book on their shelf. Things like reviews and ratings will also show up. And don't worry if you're on a page and you don't see the section; it just means that none of your friends have added that book to their shelf.

- Less cluttered look and feel: We wanted to make the things that are really important really jump out at you. Hence, it should be very easy to change the status of the book on your shelf and to read the reviews of others. Additionally, we tried to make the cover one of the first things you will see!

- A new area to manage your relationship with the book: We've created a new area in the top right of the page that should easily let you add the book to your shelf, give an ownership status and rate the book. Now you can easily do this in one place!

As always, please either pass along thoughts, comments and suggestions either in the comments section of this blog or to feedback@livingsocial.com. And don't forget to check out the new design and functionality on our other verticals like ReelSocial and TuneSocial.