More Than Read

Motivation, Book References, Book Community, Quotes

by Irma Fitriani

www.goodreads.com

Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. The mission is to help people find and share books they love. Good-reads launched in January 2007. This web provides more than 550 million of books, more than 230 book reviews, and 17 million members. 

This web is found by Otis Chandler. He is a software engineer at heart and loves tinkering on the site to make it the best product possible. Before founding Goodreads, Otis was a Software Engineer and Product Manager at Tickle.com. Monster Worldwide, the leading purveyor of online jobs, purchased the company in 2004. Otis graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Along with a passion for building websites, he’s also a voracious reader.

Otis is the Founder & CEO of Goodreads. He is a software engineer at heart and loves tinkering on the site to make it the best product possible. Before founding Goodreads, Otis was a Software Engineer and Product Manager at Tickle.com. Monster Worldwide, the leading purveyor of online jobs, purchased the company in 2004. Otis graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Along with a passion for building websites, he’s also a voracious reader.

There are hundreds of book categories, and every category has more than tens of books. So, the user can find a lot of book resources here. Here, you are not only find the book, but also buy it, or download the free e-book. 

some free e-book

some kinds of book

User can easily choose the book that they like, because there is an search engine, select in categories,  compare with friend, or see the book review.

Beside book you also can have community and contact your friends, because this web is automatically connect with your social network so you won't feel lonely here.   In the community, you can join based on what you like, for example if you like scientific book you can meet the community of scientific book here, moreover you can also ask your favorite author directly, because they are here too!

 

some of friends who I meet

from Q&A

The other feature which I like is quote page, where you can find many famous people like C.S Lewis, Suzanne Collins, Ernest Hemingway, J.K Rowling, Mother Teressa, Bob Marley, Stephanie Meyer, and still many others.They give their quotations to you, and you will dig your motivation deeper.

Try this web, and you will like it!

IRMA FITRIANI / F12112052