Microblog for Book Readers
I’m supposed to give this post a title, Twitter for Book Readers, but Twitter doesn’t like people using the words Twitter, tweet and tweeting so loosely.
Sony just launched a new website called Words Move Me. I like these website–simple yet cool. It’s a social network for readers to share quotes from their favorite books. That’s it. Simple yet cool.
They could have made the interface look better and not all black but it certainly does what it should do. I like the animations but it was frustrating to traverse through all of the quotes.
The search doesn’t seem to work well yet. Searching shows you categories like literary moments, tags, title, author, and members. What was lacking was it doesn’t tell you if your search term had a match on any of these categories. For example I searched for the “Plato”. By default it will search for “Plato” in the literary moments category. There was no result. People could mistake this as there was no Plato-related quotes in the whole website. At least there should be a notification that there was at least one hit in the other categories.
I also found that it lacked the capability to share the quotes to other social networking websites. I found a good quote and I wanted to share it with my Twitter and Facebook buddies but apparently I have to copy-paste. Plus a tag cloud of popular keywords would’ve been nice.
Overall, for a new website I’m optimistic with this site. I just hope they continue to build this site and it’s not just a one-time marketing website for their Sony Reader.
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