- Goodreads
Description
★★★★★ Goodreads
Discover and share books you love on Goodreads, the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations! More than 10 million members have added more than 300 million books to their shelves.
Keep track of what you want to read, review the books you've read, and organize your reading history by adding books to your shelves. Find new and interesting books by looking at what your friends are reading, and comment on their reviews. No other app combines the power and depth of the Goodreads community with an enormous catalog of books and reviews.
Use our barcode scanner the next time you are in a bookstore. Add the book in your hands to your "to-read" shelf and easily view its reviews before buying.
Features:
☆ Barcode scanner!
☆ Keep a want-to-read list, and never forget a great book recommendation again.
☆ See
book reviews and updates from your friends.
☆ Discover new books and explore popular book lists.
☆ Read
ebooks! We have more than 2,000 public domain books, completely free.
☆ Rate and review any book in our catalog of
more than 12 million books.
☆ Share notes and progress updates as you read.
☆ Recommend books to friends.
☆ Join online book clubs and connect with other readers.
☆ View literary events near you.
What's New
Version 2.2.3 (Apr 18, 2013)
☂ Fixed crash happening on iOS 5 while adding scanned books to your shelves.
☂ Fixed a crash in the Events
page.
Version 2.2.2 (Apr 11, 2013)
★ Barcode scanner: add scanned books to any shelf.
★ Barcode scanner: allow users to shelve books even if the
scanned books list fails to load.
★ Added buttons to explicitly share your ratings, reviews, progress updates,
reviews likes and user status likes on Facebook.
☂ Fixed crash while changing profile picture.
☂ Fixed crashes
in groups search.
☂ Fixed crash for messages with empty body.
☂ Fixed crash while accessing address book.
☂ Fixed crash happening occasionally in shelf picker.
☂ Fixed crash in Events page.
☂ Fixed a bug where
comments on User Status pages were not displayed after submission.
Version 2.2.1 (Mar 11, 2013)
★ Messages: manage your Goodreads inbox
★ Delete messages via left-to-right gesture
★ Search and join
new groups
★ Follow/unfollow users
★ Improved Facebook integration using native iOS 6 account management
☂ Removed "I highly recommend this book" text when sharing book on Facebook
☂ Fixed crash that occurred after
returning from group folder view
☂ Other bug fixes
Version 2.2 (Dec 7, 2012)
- Recommend books to your friends!
- Share your books on Facebook, Twitter, via text message or email.
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Added the ability to "approve" or "ignore" friend requests.
- Improved performance when adding large numbers of
scanned books to your shelves.
- Improved home screen layout on iPhone 5.
- Fixed a bug that prevented some
iPad users from typing into search boxes.
- Fixed a bug that prevented you from adding friends from your phone's
Contact List on iOS6.
- Fixed a bug that was causing an unexpected sign out (401 error).
- Additional fixes
for crashes that occur while downloading content from the Internet.
Version 2.1 (Oct 27, 2012)
- Push notifications! Get notified on your mobile device with the latest activity on Goodreads.
- Added
support for full iPhone 5 screen.
- Improved iOS 6 compatibility.
- Fixed a crash on iPad when opening the
"Find Friends" pop-up.
- Fixed display bugs for foreign characters in book and user descriptions.
Version 2.0.1 (Aug 11, 2012)
- New and improved way to add your Facebook friends as Goodreads friends.
- New feature: Join groups!
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New feature: Become a fan of an author.
- New feature: Mark a book as finished from the progress dialog.
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Adding a progress update on the eBook reader now defaults to percent read.
- Added ability to like a status
update.
- Added "Find eBooks" button to eBooks screen.
- The "Scan" button on the home page now immediately
launches the barcode scanner.
- More accessibility fixes: In particular, you can now easily rate a book with
VoiceOver.
- Fixed bug where long topic comments were being cut off.
- Fixed bug where downloaded eBooks were
occasionally removed on sign-out.
Version 2.0 (Jun 15, 2012)
- New navigation! Goodreads for iOS now has a home page with all the app's major features accessible via gorgeous
Retina display icons (for iPhone and the new iPad) and more useful tab functions at the bottom of the screen.
- The
barcode scanner is now just one tap away--very handy in a bookstore!
- Read ebooks, update your reading progress,
and easily access groups, friends, and your profile directly from the home page.
- iPad improvements: We now have
eight tabs (instead of five) with easy access to groups, ebooks, the barcode scanner, and more.
- Improved
functionality when signed-out: you can easily scan, read ebooks, and explore.
- Improved Facebook integration:
Seamlessly open any book pages you see linked on Facebook.
- Added ability to read and comment on user status
updates.
- Fixed a time-out error for profile picture updates.
- Fixed display problems for group topics, such
as comments being cut off and HTML code being displayed.
- Improved scanning speeds on iPod Touch devices.
-
Some improvements toward making the app more accessible via Voice Over.
- Events page is now able to determine your
current ZIP code.
- Fixed crash related to loading the address book friends page.
- Many other bug fixes
related to occasional crashes.
Version 1.5.3 (Feb 14, 2012)
- Added Explore Books at Random feature.
- Improved performance.
- Now displaying moderators in Groups
pages.
- Fixed a few display errors in Group and Group topic pages.
- Progress update now defaults to % if
reading an eBook edition.
- Fixed a bug where the Resume Reading button was not disappearing even after reaching
the last page of an eBook.
- Fixed many crashes in the eBook reader, as well as in My Books, book, review, author
and user pages.
- Removed rendering artifacts in book and review pages happening under low memory conditions.
- Fixed display failures for books with ampersands in their titles.
- Fixed possible crashes and errors trying to
update your profile picture on iPads with iOS 5.
- Better error messages in the barcode scanner.
Version 1.5.2 (Dec 7, 2011)
Bug fixes.
Version 1.5.1 (Nov 22, 2011)
- Fixed ebook display problems happening when zooming on iOS 5
- Many other fixes for iOS 5
- Improved
barcode scanner speed
- Barcode scanner now beeps or vibrates after a scan
Version 1.5 (Oct 8, 2011)
- Sign in and sign up with Facebook
- Added ability to increase text size
- More prominent access to
Groups
- Change your profile picture using camera or photo library
- Spoilers now hidden by default, viewable
upon request
- Ability to mark your reviews as spoilers
- Using high resolution icons
- Barcode scanner
fixes
- Many fixes for occasional crashes
Version 1.4 (Aug 22, 2011)
- iPad support! The app now takes advantage of the bigger screen of the iPad.
- Barcode scanner improvements:
the reliability and memory issues have been fixed, and the scanner is no longer force-closed.
Version 1.3 (Aug 7, 2011)
- Connect with your Facebook friends!
- Fixed sorting issues on a given shelf
- Many other bug
fixes
Version 1.2.2 (Jun 21, 2011)
Many bug fixes
Version 1.2.1 (Mar 3, 2011)
- Fixed a crash happening on iOS 3 systems.
- Added the ability to create a group topic.
- Added ability
to add all scanned books to your read and to-read shelves, as well as a way to clear your scanned book list.
Version 1.2 (Feb 23, 2011)
- Groups functionality. You can browse your groups or view other users' groups under user's profile pages. You can
see all discussions, folders, unread virtual folder, and group topics with unread counts.
- Topics functionality.
Ability to browse Groups and Updates topics, and any topic you see from the web view. You can also comment on a
topic.
- Many bug fixes.
Version 1.1.5 (Jan 22, 2011)
- Barcode Scanner! Scan your own books and add them to Goodreads, or quickly check out reviews if you are in a
bookstore. Available under My Books.
- Italian localization.
Version 1.1.4 (Nov 30, 2010)
- Invite friends from Address Book as well as by email.
- Save quotes while reading ebooks, via tap and hold
(iOS 4 only).
- Bug fix for crash related to missing profile picture.
Version 1.1.3 (Nov 3, 2010)
- You can now sort your book lists by many more options
- Set bookmarks on your eBook
- Improved page
layout for eBooks
Version 1.1.2 (Sep 18, 2010)
* "Read Now" button would sometimes not appear on the book page.
* Fixed rare crash when exiting the app on
the events page.
Version 1.1.1 (Aug 26, 2010)
* Fixed a problem with reading some eBooks
* New "Friend Finder" feature lets you search your contacts for
Goodreads friends, if you chose.
Version 1.1.0 (Aug 5, 2010)
Now with a built-in eReader - you can read eBooks right from within the app!
On book pages that have a corresponding eBook, you will see a "read now" or "buy eBook" button that allows you to download a book from the Goodreads web site and read it directly from within the app.
You can find eBooks under the "Explore" tab. There is also a new special shelf called "my-ebooks" that lists all books downloaded onto your device.
Other fixes:
* supports iOS4.
* Progress Editor saves your work if a phone call comes in.
* More kinds
of statuses from your friends.
* Status updates support percent read as well as page number. Also shows total
number of pages.
* New settings page filter: "Top friends and following". Also, after a settings page change, the
updates page is reloaded.
* Shelf names can contain non-ascii characters.
* Many crash bugs fixed.
Version 1.0.3 (Apr 13, 2010)
1. New form on the homepage to update what page you are on.
2. Post a general update.
3. Search your
own book shelves.
4. You can now "Like" a review.
5. Set the start and finished date in your book review.
6. Create a new shelf.
7. Sort books on your shelf by "date read".
8. Public domain books now link to the
Goodreads epub reader in Safari.
9. Remove a book from all of your shelves.
10. Improved "Voice Over" support
for disabled users.
11. Fixed bugs with shelves that have only numbers in their names (e.g. 2010).
Version 1.0.2 (Mar 17, 2010)
1."My Books" no longer shows your list twice after a sort by title, date added, etc.
2. "More Shelves" was
showing the wrong user's shelves
3. No longer crashes after submitting your review.
4. Fixed crash on start
up.
5. More information about Goodreads for new users.
6. Editable text fields now scroll into place if they
are off screen
7. Some users had problems logging in - now fixed.
Version 1.0.1 (Mar 4, 2010)
1) If a page has an error, you can now hit a reload button to try again.
2) If you don't have an account
yet, or haven't set up friends, you can now see recent reviews from the entire Goodreads community.
3) While
composing your update, we now show a count of how many characters you are allowed to type.
4) If you don't have a
network connection, "My Books" can now show the last shelf page that you viewed.
5) If a review blurb is
truncated, we now end it with ellipses
6) The Settings page now provides links to help and support.











