Not much. The application features will continue to be the same and will get better and more social. You bookshelf will remain the same and will continued to be called weRead.
You don't have to. Everything on weRead.com is available on all the social networks, facebook, myspace, orkut, hi5, bebo. If you do not wish to manage your bookshelf or see what your friends are doing across these social networks then you can sign up for an account on weRead.com. You can easily link your bookshelf to weRead.com in 2 easy steps.
Over the next 8-12 weeks you will see many features that will answer this better. By social we mean that we will put your friends ratings, reviews, books, recommendations before everyone else. By Social we mean that you will be able to see and compare your book tastes with any of your friends.
Lulu.com is the premier marketplace for digital content on the Internet, with over 609,000 recently published titles, and more than 5,000 new titles added each week, created by people in 80 different countries. With just over 1.75 million registered members, Lulu is changing the world of publishing by enabling creators to publish their work themselves with complete editorial and copyright control. With free web storefronts provided, other marketing support and available distribution, Lulu creators are fully empowered to profit from their work.
Lulu is leading an exciting revolution to empower independent authors to help them create/publish/sell their books. weRead will now have access to all the books that Lulu has which is great for discovering great tool. Also Lulu authors can use the author's corner to help connect with readers and take their feedback as they write their books. We believe that partnership will further the cause of weRead - social discovery of books as we will now have access to larger catalog and independent authors.
No it will not change any of bookshelf features, independence of search, reviews, ratings, recommendations and other features that you have come to love. What this alliance means is that now you will have access to over 600,000 books published by independent authors and you will have access to thousands of independent authors.
Simple. Just search for any book and then go to the options on the right side of the page. You will see four buttons for every book - "Reading It", "Read It", "Wanna read", "Heck No". Click the button that best describes your relationship with the book! Once you click the button, the book gets automatically added to your weRead list! You then get an option to rate the book, mark it as a favorite, write a review and tell your friends that you own it. Repeat till you add all your books.
If your book does not come up in our regular search box, then you can try an advanced/international search with Amazon.com/(other Amazon websites) search (Click on Advanced Search --> Select Amazon.com in drop down) to find the desired book. If you still cannot find the book, you can use add a book feature. This allows you to add a custom book. Click on My Reads ? Add a Book tab. Enter the Title, Author, ISBN, Description and you will add a book to our catalog and to your book list.
Once you add a book, the buttons should change to a canvas which suggests your status along with an option to check mark "Is my favorite" or "I own a copy". You should be able to just click on those check boxes to indicate favorites/i own.
If you wish to change the status of a book then you can just go "My Reads". Locate the book (using sorts) that you wish to change the status of. Once you have found the book you should see the same canvas page. You can now check/uncheck the boxes or even change your reading status.
Simple! If you see a book in your My Reads or Search, weRead shows you a list of friends that have added that book and also shows you their average rating. You can also click on the "Friend's Reads" tab on your weRead page. Once you do that, you're given two options to look at your Friend's Reads. You can choose to Browse by Friends or Browse by Books.
First check your profile settings using the Edit Profile link on the top of the application. You should make sure that the settings include reviews. Try clicking on the Update button on the Edit Profile page. This will usually update the profile. If the problem still persists, do let us know here.
Click on the 'All reads' link on the weRead home page. This populates a list of Everyone's Reads. You can use the sort button on the top right of the page to sort the books to your liking.
This is simple. Click on the 'My Reads' tab on your weRead page and you will see a 'Sort' button on the right side of the page along with a dropdown for you to choose how you wish to sort your books. The dropdown has these options - 'Recently added first', 'Recently added last', 'Title A-Z', 'Title Z-A', 'Highest rated first' and 'Lowest rated first'. Click on the option that you would like and hit sort. Your books get sorted to your choice immediately.
If your wish-list is not on amazon.com (US) account then you are among many who is facing this problem. We are working to fix this problem and will keep you updated through the application wall.
For Amazon.com wishlist, sometime Amazon does not return anything for a valid email id. Trying a few time helps but not always. Another approach is that you enter the URL (Web address) of your wish-list in the "Import your books" --> "Get ISBNs from a webpage". It works better however; the only catch here is that if your wishlist comes in multiple pages then you will have to give each page separately.
Really! Well it is not hard. Click on the 'My Reads' tab on your weRead page. Find the book that you want to remove. (You can use the sort button on the same page to find the book). Once you have found the book that you want to remove from your weRead list, click on the delete button on the right. Click on it and confirm. Your book will be deleted from the weRead list. You can always add it later if you wish to.
To add a book, click on the "Add a book" link under the search box. You will be asked to provide Title, Author, Description, Image location and ISBN number. Enter all the details and click "Submit". You are done adding the book. The added book should show up on the same screen.
Unfortunately not. The reason we do not allow people to edit the books they have added is that someone else may have added the same book and in that case their information will also get changed. We are working to improve on this experience either through versioning or allowing people to easily added a modified details of the book they have added as a new book.
There can be three reasons for that:
a) You have not added books to weRead. Add books and rate them so that we can learn about your reading tastes and provide recommendations to you.
b) You have only recently added books. Check back after 48 hours for our system to catch up with your reading tastes and provide you with recommendations.
c) We have run out of high quality recommendations for you. Check back in a week so that our system can create new recommendations for you.
We look at your weRead shelf to see what you have read and rated, learn from what you like, and use that to give you recommendations. Help us to give you better recommendations by adding books you have read and rate them. Click here to easily rate the books on your shelf.
Quick Rate is an easy way to rate and review a book and compare your ratings with your friends. We have found it to be a cool way to discover new books. weRead carefully chooses books for you based on your reading tastes and presents it to one at a time. Once you have rated a book you can see how your ratings compare with your friends. It is really fun! Try it.
Readers are creating the quizzes on weRead. Yes, users like you. To create your own quiz, Click on the 'Quiz' link on your weRead home page, you will see a link to add a question to an existing quiz or add a new quiz altogether. Once you add a quiz you can see how many people have taken it and how did they do.
'Chuck a Book' is like recommending a book to a friend but its more fun! For instance, Want to recommend a book to someone? At wit's end with someone? Want to give them a reality check? Maybe you want to say "I'm sorry"? Or just send them a sweet note. Now you say with a book - chuck a book!
"Chuck a book" is a feature within weRead. It allows you to recommend a book to someone and send a message along with recommendation.
We are adding this feature soon!
Sure you can! It's extremely simple too! Click on the "Friend's Reads" tab on the weRead home page. Once you do, find the friend that you want to send a message to, click on their bookshelf link. You will see a textbox on their bookshelf that will let you leave wall messages.
If you click on "Applications" which is below the search box on page, You will see weRead application listing.Click on "Edit Settings" and choose one of the options other than "no one". As you soon as you do that you will see a weRead profile widget on your profile page on .
We are sorry for this inconvenience. As far as we can tell, all of the error pages people are seeing are cases where for some reason, is not passing your request for a page along to weRead. Unfortunately, there is not much we can do about it. However, will fix this for you as soon as they can. In the meanwhile, try clicking on the Refresh button in your browser. This usually makes things better. If you see other applications loading just fine, write on the application wall or create a new discussion board and we will get on the problem ASAP.
We are not the only application with this problem and we hope that will fix it soon. In the meantime, if you refresh your browser while on the blank page it usually fixes the problem.
It has to do with the way interacts with applications. Our application runs in an iframe, so when our application sets a cookie your browser treats it as a third party cookie. We DO NOT track you across multiple web sites. If you want to prevent third party cookies except for ours you should add "static.ugenie.com" to your allow list and block all other third party cookies.
We don't know why you would want to do that, but it's easy! Just go to your profile and click the little "X" on your weRead profile box. You can choose to remove it from just your profile or from your completely. Don't worry; we'll save your books, ratings and reviews (but NOT your personal info!) just in case you someday want to come back.
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