Feature Requests (Update: Amazon Reviews)

What updates and changes would you like to see on the site?

List Updated 3rd May 2016
Note: currently all effect is going into Bargainbookangel.co.uk which is in Beta. Full launch 10th May 2016.

Current Requests
Update the search
Make the site look better on tablets/Mobiles
Access to review notes/books you wouldn't review
Improve the app to include video/lists/reviews/genre choice.
Members functions
Serial setting to show first book and a page for serials.

WIP
Bargain 99p books - Bargainbookangel.co.uk is in Beta.
Other sources than Amazon - talking to Draft to Digital
Speed up site - Voting plugins removed. Other work underway (make pagination integral).
Amazon.co.uk Reviews - It is off the never list after reviewing Amazon's T&Cs. We're working through it now. Paid reviews are still NOT AN OPTION.

Done
Author emails - Done March 2016.
Social Buttons - Done March 2016: Addthis successfully implemented.
Setting reminders for Upcoming books - Feb 2016 Calendar function added
Replace third party blog system - Done. Jan 2016. its now part of the site
By genre email for all users - Done 24th Jan 2016
Get An App - Android App Market for: Bookangel
Vanishing Book Covers - fixed Mar 2015
EBK.Link homepage - redirect fixed. Dec 2015
ebk.link statspage - now live Dec 2015
Review search/links to similar reviews - now live Jan 2016
Search improvements - pagination - now live Jan 2016
Voting plugin removed.

Ongoing
Review more books - We are!
More third party blogs - We're talking to a few
More social/better book boards - You're on them! If you want more posts, it's up to you.
Payment processor for EU Residents - We're looking.
Video Reviews - Started on Dailymotion Dec 2016, but we need youtube, better video equipment, and it just isn't fun.

Rejected
Facebook page - not until we find someone to run it for us.
Paid Reviews - Don't Even Ask.

 

We're working on the FAQ now.

An author board might be useful, particularly for blogs and links, but for now it can go in the Tea Room while we finish moving threads. If we get enough authors we'll move the threads to their own board.

 

There's a complication with the "by genre" mail. It needs to be generated per user, which means we can't send it through our external mailserver, and we're close to the limit on our webserver. We are working on a way round this, but the cost is significant.

As always it comes down to money and time. Sorry.

 

Thanks, I'll take a look into it.

 

It looks like that might work for us. We're working on it now.

 

Cheers for that - looks like we can make something work from it.

 

An easy way to link to bookcover titles is now in testing:
Wrap around the title you want linked to on Amazon.co.uk. You may have to tweak the title (possibly including the author) to get it to find the exact book first, but it should also work with ISBNs.

 

Thanks, I have, and it works.

 

Added to the list.

 

Thanks. Based on that we might be able to bring the "By Genre" email into use for all readers at a manageable cost. Testing is underway.

 

Take a look at the sign-up form in the sidebar. The rest will be swapped shortly.

And thank tirial, who found a way to do it yesterday (at eleven pm, don't you ever sleep?) which actually drops our email costs to a third of what they were, and CatInASuit who has been wiring it in ever since.