The coolest new feature on BookTour: Auto-favorites
Like any other startup, we've adding new feature nearly every day on BookTour. But my favorite is one that we added last week. You know the music services, such as Sonic Living, that can scan your iTunes or LastFM libraries and then automatically tell you (via emails or RSS feeds) when your favorite bands are coming to your town? We wanted to do the same for books and authors.
So now if you go to your Profile page on BookTour.com, you can enter your Amazon login info and we'll automatically look up all the books you've ever bought and add those authors to the list you're tracking. If any of them are coming to your area to give talks or other appearances, we'll send you an email or include it in your RSS feed. And you can always use the service to ping those authors and ask them to come speak to your company, organization or just book club while they're in town.
How cool is that?!
(BTW, we don't keep your Amazon info. The site just opens a secure connection to Amazon, fetches the books from your order history, and then closes the connection and discards the login info. That means you have to enter the login again when you want to refresh your favorites list in a few months, but it also ensures that your login information can never be compromised.)
How about getting LibraryThing data scanned in?
Posted by: madalex | August 07, 2007 at 11:09 AM
Sounds like a great tool. This feature will be interesting to those who are die hard fans of specific authors. Like, I love to read books from Seth Godin and Jack Welch and don't want to miss their talks.
Rajesh Shakya
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Posted by: Rajesh Shakya | August 07, 2007 at 12:32 PM
I'm looking forward to meeting Thomas Pynchon when he comes to Los Angeles! I may be waiting a long time :)
Posted by: David Palmer | August 07, 2007 at 02:15 PM
Fabulous idea, although it really needs more prominence on the site. Talk about instant stickiness, feature this one on the front page and make it part of the registration flow!
Ryan (mediatrending.com)
Posted by: Ryan | August 12, 2007 at 05:18 PM
Good idea. You must do that with LibraryThing too.
Posted by: Hubert Guillaud | September 05, 2007 at 02:34 AM
thanks...
Kabin
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Posted by: kabin | June 13, 2009 at 10:28 AM