Goodreads - global social network lovers of reading

Book web service Goodreads - Facebook is for book lovers. It will help maintain lists of books read and lists of books, required reading, and share recommendations with your friends, who, like you, love to read.

Why book web services

Before us stretches a huge wonderful world of books, in which even the great works of more than able to read people.

To read such books requires a lot of time and effort, so it is not necessary to spend hours on the absorption of a second-rate literature - the time is limited and precious. Thanks to modern technology, we are not leaving your home can get access to millions of digitized books and choose the best suitable for our life and professional goals.

Find reference points in an infinite variety of literature and determine which would be the next book in our hands - a difficult task.

Making this a difficult choice, we are faced with a new challenge: you have to read the book effectively, thoughtfully, to take whatever she can give us. One of the conditions of a deep understanding of the book is to share reviews and opinions with other readers, discussing books with interesting people.

Book web services and social networks help us to perform these tasks: to choose a book to read on Based on the recommendations of the experts and find good literature interlocutors to discuss read books.

Visual tour Goodreads

Social network Goodreads allows a virtual index card read, read at the moment and deferred to the reading of books, and share recommendations with your friends. It is a holistic ecosystem for the interaction of book lovers, writers and publishers.

Profile user

Each user Goodreads fills your profile - a detailed portrait of the reader.

Books are placed on shelves in the profile: by default offers Read shelves ( "read»), Currently-Reading ( «Read Now»), To-Read ( «Reading") and the Favorites ( "Favorite Books").

The profile can decorate by placing in the top part of one shelf to choose from a number of book covers. The rest of the shelves are located on separate pages and displayed either as a list of books with information about each, either in the form of a series of covers.

In Goodreads profile displayed:

• lists of favorite authors, genres and quotes from the books;
• a read device that has a reader (electronic book reader, a tablet, a smartphone);
• Friend list;
• Feed Updates to user activity on the site.

Adding books on bookshelves

To add books to the shelves they have to be found in the base of Goodreads, numbering several million books. Search by title, author or ISBN - International Standard Book Number.

Finding the right book can be found with its profile. Here is detailed information: abstract, number of pages, publication date, publisher, link on the list of publications of different years, brief information about the author referring to his full, quotes, video. And Goodreads user reviews on this book, your friends reviews and rating.

The book can be added to any of the shelves. If desired, you write a review, or an entire review, rate the book (from one to five stars), specify the date of commencement and completion of reading, mark the names of friends to whom you would like to recommend this book.

In special sections Goodreads books sorted by genre, and in the form of lists that are created by the users of social networks. For example, "The best books of the XX century", "The most anticipated books of the year", "Best post-apocalyptic science fiction", "Best book adaptations with a failure."

When I think of books, hundreds of millions of the world's books, sometimes it becomes terrible. Scared of so much knowledge that I do not know, and something terrible miss. Goodreads helps fight these fears.

Peter Didenko, Chief Specialist of Strategic Development "SKB Kontur".

If the book could not be found in the database Goodreads, then you can add it manually specify the details and download the cover image.

Friends and communication between users

When you mark a book or publish a review, your friends can see these actions can add their comments and referred to the book you on their bookshelves.

Filtering tape is easily customizable, so you'll only see the updates from friends, which you are interested.

In Goodreads I look at the choice of the people, whose views on the idea of ​​self management and project management is considered similar to yours. It is worth to subscribe to 5-6 "right" personalities - and no sensible novelty will not pass by you.

Viktor Zakharchenko, CEO Drimmi, founder and director of Internet projects

Social connections between users are not limited to Goodreads. It is possible to recommend books to friends, exchange messages via internal mail and join interest groups to discuss books, and participate in polls.

In Goodreads is a social hierarchy: The user who posted in your profile more than 50 books, are eligible to become librarians. Holders may edit the books and the authors data, make lists, to replenish the directory.

Integration with social networks

Tape Updates on GoodReads, you can publish to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live.

literary quiz

Who wishes to test their erudition readers participate in the quiz consisting of questions about books and writers multiple choice. Quizzes can be created independently and to bring to the game for friends and other users.

Goodreads on mobile devices

The service is available as a mobile version of the site and clients for the iPhone and Android.

The good news not only for owners of smart phones, but also for those who read the book on the e-book reader Amazon Kindle: possible synchronize data about the books you have read and are reading right now, and quotes from books between the Kindle and your accounts Goodreads.

Finally

Goodreads In an atmosphere of love for books and supplies to global readers association. Due to the smart interface, every book lover feels at home here.

The number of Russian-speaking people Goodreads small but growing community. We chose this social network for doing reading history, search of new books, and exchange feedback with each other.

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