Last week BG staked-out a spot on Facebook. If you’re a Facebook aficionado, hook up with us there.

You’ll get feeds from this blog, notifications about who’s-reading-what, and some Facebook-only information. There’s also a photo section full of screenshots of some of the odd and interesting Catalog entries, designed to whet your digital literary appetite.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/BookGlutton/15299777141?ref=mf

And a note to the non-Facebook crowd – you can probably still see the page. It’s still worth checking out, even if you can’t friend us. 🙂

BookGlutton Groups on Twitter

One of the best things about following BookGlutton’s Twitter Stream: you can see when a group is reading.

If someone decides to read with a group, the group name shows up on BG’s Twitter page: http://www.twitter.com/bookglutton. Then you can jump in and chat with them about the book in a group-only setting. You can also keep an eye out for the groups that meet frequently and request an invite…it’s another great way to keep track of BG activity.

Find out what people are doing on BookGlutton! If you’re not familiar with Twitter, it’s a free service that sends short, immediate messages to a webpage, so you can stay in touch. Think of it as a mini-blog. Every time someone opens a book on BookGlutton.com, our robots automatically update BookGlutton’s Twitter page: http://www.twitter.com/bookglutton.

If you’re not logged in to BookGlutton when you read, or if you’ve chosen to read in private (under Manage Your Account > Personal Information), the Twitter stream will just say “Someone” is reading. Otherwise, keep an eye out for your friends nickames. Those will appear here, and you can jump back onto BookGlutton and join them. It’s pretty addictive!

Recent Shouts, our new homepage section, helps you hook up with other Gluttons, PDQ. You can shout a request for people to join your group, shout out a recommendation for a book from the catalog, or just shout out something wise and beneficial to your fellow readers.

It’s super easy. After logging in just click the “Add a Shout” link just above the Featured Shouts. Then type. Kinda simple, eh? Shout away, we’re listening!

Safari Support

BookGlutton is now supporting Safari and looks excellent! Safari is available for both Macintosh OS X and Windows and outperforms both IE7 and Firefox. And it makes pages look great. The Safari rendering engine, WebKit, just got an A+ rating on the Acid3 test, something no other browser has done yet. What does that mean, to a non-techie? …That Safari is the most standards-compliant browser out there, and we officially recommend it for reading in BookGlutton.

Internet Explorer Support

BookGlutton.com has taken the leap into officially supporting IE7 today. We have no idea what kind of miseries this is getting us into — no, just kidding, actually we understand the ramifications of developing for the world’s most used and most abused browser. We’ve been doing it all along. Today we can officially say that it has passed our tests sufficiently for public use. There are still some minor IE-specific glitches, but all the books in the catalog are now accessible, the chat is functional, the annotations work. Most of all, the pages look good in IE – except for one clearType related bug, we’re pleased with the typography here.

Along with this comes another important update to the site. We’ve removed the control which previously prevented unsupported browsers from accessing the Unbound Reader. This means any browser, on any device, can now access it–only we can’t guarantee that everything will work. We think this is a better way to do things, and we’ve improved the site messaging to give users ample warning if their browsers aren’t up to snuff. We’ll continue to roll out official support for other browsers as time permits.