Hi guys.<p>I’m looking for some feedback from the great HN community. I just soft launched the beta version of my humble bookshelf application, bookqueue. I've been working on it as a pet project since 2007. The idea is having a place to track all books you have been reading and having some nice stats around it, with less focus in the social aspects.<p>My own queue can be found here: http://bookqueue.net/caffo<p>You can also create your own at http://bookqueue.net/<p>Thanks!
I really like the idea. I often will buy books, intending to read them (someday), and then promptly forget that I have them. This would be great for that, and I like the past stats for how many pages/books I've read.<p>Here are some notes I took while playing with the site:<p>1. It would be great to have a way to add multiple books to your queue at the same time, or at least to not have to re-do your search after you've added a book. Especially when you're loading in a back-log.<p>2. Have more than 10 search results.<p>3. If you hit the back button, after a book has been added, you get the book twice. (It happened when I added Anathem to the 'will read' list.)<p>4. Make Author name clickable, so it shows a list of books by that author.<p>5. Why would I want to edit the description/title/author of a book that's already in the system? I think you might consider making this an admin function and have a way to submit changes, rather than letting users deal directly with that.<p>6. It would be great to have a recommendation system, or maybe more orthogonal to the system would be to specifically recommend someone's next book. I know I often have problems deciding what my next book should be.
Absolutely lovely design, great job!<p>One point: it wasn't immediately obvious to me that the right hand logo was a clickable logo back to the homepage.<p>.net as TLD for a webapp feels a bit odd too but it's probably fine for beta.