Ordinary Reader

When you are cataloging your books on Where’s That Book, or creating a list of books you want to read, you might want to keep some notes about what you thought of each one, or who bought it for you, or why you should never read something by that author ever again. Now you can add those notes in the book details page.

The success of a mystery rests on its plotting. The murderer has to be someone we met reasonably early in the book, ideally a suspect considered but rejected, and the solution has to be plausible but not especially guessable. For me, outlandish mechanics (locked room mysteries and the like) don’t work in books, although they can on TV, because they reveal the hard work of the author and reading them feels like doing the kind of puzzle I do not enjoy. Watching TV is passive so as long as the pace is decent you can just get swept along.

Where’s That Book isn’t just designed for books you have at home. I’ve just added a feature that puts any book you add to one of two shelves: “Your Shelf” or “World Shelf”.