It's important that the community have a hand in developing the BookGlutton Catalog. Not only can users influence what public-domain works are included, but writers can get great feedback showing their work in the reader. This video walks you through how to upload a document (which you'll need to convert into .rtf or .xhtml – easy to do from Word or Dreamweaver, respectively). The video also shows you how to tag your document, download an .epub version (which you can later read in Adobe Digital Editions, although we'd much rather you just keep reading it here!), and read it in The BookGlutton Unbound Reader.

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!