Yesterday we released some improvements to the page that lists all the series you’re following. You’ll notice two things off the bat: Under the heading, it says “Showing 46 filtered results.” There’s a new “Filter” button in the top right. Series you’re caught up on are hidden by default When you first load the page, the series you’re fully caught up on that have no […]
Category: Site News & Updates
New genre pages
We’ve recently added new dedicated genre pages to Bookhype, which allows you to more easily find books within a genre you’re interested in. So far we have pages for: Fantasy Historical Mystery Romance Science Fiction Thriller … along with sub-genres within each of those. Soon we’ll be adding one for Young Adult as well. (I know, “Young Adult” isn’t really a genre; it’s an age […]
Email alerts are coming soon!
In case you missed it, we’re working on email alerts! This will be a weekly email that goes out to anyone that has “Email Notifications” enabled in their settings. It will feature two things: Books in your library that are releasing over the next week. Any books that have automatically been added to your library over the past week. This will be books in series […]
Beta launch & roadmap
It’s been almost a week since we opened the Bookhype doors to beta testers, and it’s definitely been a fun and weird experience! It took me a while to get used to opening up book pages and seeing other peoples’ reviews! It’s wild! I’ve also been thinking a lot about what’s next. I have a pretty big list of things to do but I’m trying […]
Alpha launch & thoughts on perfection
On Sunday we opened the Bookhype doors to a few alpha testers. It’s definitely been a whirlwind of emotions for me. I’ve been working on Bookhype for months and it’s weird to finally be letting other people in on it. Suddenly all the imperfections are huge and glaring at me. We have duplicated records (editions not grouped into a work correctly), missing series information, some […]
Bookhype
Bookhype is something I’ve been quietly working on since May. I haven’t said anything about it yet, but I think I’m close enough now that I’ll start putting out some whispers. 😉 Bookhype actually started in April. I found myself wishing there was a directory of special edition books, because I love finding and buying them. I didn’t know of one, so I created one […]