Two-books.net book advisory service - 3 months later

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    August 3, 2010 two-books.net book recommendation service was presented to the public , the main difference between which and similar services is that only the top 2 books from each user were added to the site. I would like to thank everyone who reported the bug, shared his two best books, wrote us a few kind words. And also those who helped us with the development of the service and supplemented their and other people's books with annotations, covers, and genres. Thanks to them, we became even better and understood in which direction to develop.




    What was done in 3 months.



    1. Added links to Wikipedia for books and authors.

    If you open a page with a book, you can see the Wikipedia logo for most books and authors. How to automate adding Wikipedia links using api a bit was described in the topic Connecting Wikipedia to Site

    2. They made it possible to add one book instead of two at first, if desired.

    As practice has shown, determining which 2 books are the best is very difficult. To make it easier to determine your two best books, try to answer the following questions:
    1. Which two books have had the greatest impact on my life?
    2. The first 2 books that I recommend reading?
    3. What 2 books do I want to reread?
    4. Write a list of books on the sheet (one in each line) - the first two will be the best.
    5. Make a list of books and gradually cross out those that are worse. The last 2 will be the best.

    3. Added sorting of books:
    • by name
    • by the number of readers who consider the book the best
    • by date added
    • by the number of book addings to favorites

    4. Changed the appearance of the main page. Previously, 10 books were published that readers consider the best. Since the rating of books increased proportionally and the main page did not change, we decided to display the 5 last added books and 5 last comments

    5. Added a search by readers.

    6. Added internal mail for dating and communication

    7. Removed duplicates. Thanks to everyone who reported them.

    What have we learned for ourselves



    1. Content on multilingual sites should be shared by language. At the start of the Russian books there were comments in the Ukrainian language, the Russian-language part of Sevis avatars of users led to the Ukrainian part of the site. The post was almost bombarded. Thanks to systray, critical error

    2 was corrected in time . Of the 2,000 people who added the book, only one was a spammer and two added abracadabra. 1 bad person per 1000 confirms once again that there are wonderful people around.

    3. Thanks to the service, I learned about books and read Bodo Schaefer's “The Path to Financial Independence” , Robin Sharma “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari” . Read, do not regret it

    Total


    The service has more than 1,500 books, new books are constantly being added, if you take into account the results of the survey , then most readers will have enough books for 10-20 years for sure. We are constantly adding new features, but I would like to know what you want most from such a service?

    Need your help


    On two-books.net many more books do not have a genre indicated , if someone wants to help us, for 3 added genres to books you will get +1 in karma. After adding genres, please write in your personal mail.

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