myJaxonIf we don’t go crazy once in a while, we’ll all go crazy. - Hawkeye

Okay, so I received a recommendation from Carrie for the plugin “now reading” since I’m a huge reader. For some reason, last night I decided to stay up playing with it instead of going to bed with Ian. While the whole idea sounds like a really good idea, there are some things that do not float my boat as of yet.

1. The search engine doesn’t allow you to search for one author and then have a bunch of her books come up so you can select multiple ones. Laurell K Hamliton has 15 books in one series alone that have reviews on this site and I was going to try and transfer them into the plugin; however, I had to actually book in the title of each book for it to come up. It wouldn’t let me just put in her name. That was annoying since I have another series from her that I would like to eventually do a review for as well;
2. There is a lot of repetitiveness in the actions to navigate the management section. When you go to edit the library entry of a book, once you hit update, it doesn’t automatically take you back to the main list. It keeps you at the edit page and you have to re-navigate to the list page since there isn’t a “go back” selection on the page.
3. The whole administration process if very time consuming. Well, this could also be due to my desire of inputting all of my past reviews. At the same time, I really don’t get on the computer that much anymore since I’m entertaining or with Ian. So the idea that I’ll be able to put a book that I’m reading into the program and then have time to give it a review at a later date may be stretching it. Plus I tend to read books really fast. I can go through a book within 24 hours if it really draws me into it (and seriously, those are really the only books I try to read). So I’m not really sure if it is worth the time yet.
4. The layout sucks. Well, only initially. You can go in and customize it to however you want it to look, but it doesn’t come up being functional without having to mess with it, so it really isn’t a choice to customize it. It’s a requirement. Goes back to that time management issue.
5. Editing is also a two step process.  Why did the designer have  a short edit screen and then a long edit screen?  Why didn’t he just converge them into one screen?  Again, a time management issue and one too many steps for a simple process.

Okay, Jesse wants his lapto back, so that’s my review for now.  I’ll update this when I get a chance to play with it some more.