In-document Comment Links

Next time you’re in the Unbound Reader check out the MARK panel changes.

In the past, when you slid open the MARK panel, it would tell you how many comments there were on the book. That was nice to know, but not particularly helpful for finding them. Enter the new setup: slide the MARK Panel open today and it will tell you how many comments there are for each section. In fact, any section with a comment is listed (see the screenshot above). Moreover, you can click on the section icon ( § ) and it’ll jump you right to the section itself, where you can cruise for those little red asterisks. Quick and easy.

New Talk Panel

Next time you’re reading in BookGlutton you’ll notice a few changes. Now, when you move from chapter to chapter, the chat will update your position, showing where you are in the book each time you comment. That way, if other users have their filter set to “Whole Book,” they can see where you are. Talk away!

Just a word on where our content is coming from. BookGlutton is working daily to add more content to the catalog, and it’s coming from 3 directions.

First, there’s the entire corpus of human knowledge written before 1923. Obviously we’ll continue to import these public domain works as fast as possible. But we’re also looking to our community to try its hand at the Upload Tool. Show us what you’ve got! If you’re feeling shy you can make your uploads private, so only you can see them (you’ll have private groups to share them with – coming soon). Hopefully you’ll migrate them to the public catalog later on, so everyone can read your work. Finally, we’re checking into copyrighted sources and looking for ways to bring you contemporary writing, ASAP. There’s going to be a little red tape involved in all of this, so be sure to “Make a Recommendation” on the site whenever you think of a work, a genre, or a type of community you’d like to have on BookGlutton.com and we’ll add it to our list!

It looks like our system got a little overzealous and re-invited a few of you! No worries — your old account will still work. This was due to a backend migration of old-style logins to new-style logins, which are now based on user email address.  Sorry about that — we’ll reel our robots back in ASAP!

I know we’ve been a little silent over here at BG HQ, but we’re really had our heads down trying to resolve the last few bugs standing in our way of private beta. Beyond fixing up the code, patent work and other tedious business-type housekeeping has filled our days from dawn to dusk. You may have noticed the site itself is ready for beta, what with the new login page and all, and we’re going to be rolling people in slowly. But there are a few tweaks that need to be made first, particularly with reading groups, and we’re figuring on about two weeks worth of changes before the beta emails start going out…although I’d love to be pleasantly surprised…