#51 - Read With Us!

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        May 25, 2020

#51 - Read With Us!
Join in with today's May Bank Holiday Readathon! Also, exciting news: Goodreads imports are now completely self-service from within the website! 🥳

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The May Bank Holiday Readathon

The StoryGraph is hosting an event via Instagram today, taking advantage of the public holiday in the UK (and Memorial Day in the States)! 🥳

It's our annual #mbhreadathon, where you aim to sit down and do some focused reading virtually alongside others all around the world!

There's a loose goal of 5 hours, mainly for those (like me!) that enjoy something to work towards. But whether you read for 5 minutes or 50, it's the taking part that counts. 🤓

Will you consider picking up a book for a little while to take part today? Let me know what you'll be reading!

Last week

We reached a product milestone that I'm oh so proud of! 🙌🏾

Remember the time when I would spend days onboarding a user to the beta as I needed to manually add their 400 books to the site? 😅

We've moved on a lot since then but, as of last week, after somebody signs up to the site, they're directed to this page:

😍😍😍

And if they do upload their Goodreads file, we won't have to do anything manually. It all happens in the background, including emailing the user once their export is done! 🎉

This vastly improves the user experience compared to where users would have to remember to send me their Goodreads export attached to an email.

(It also vastly improves my life too. 😆)

This week

Thank you to everyone who wrote in last week with enthusiastic and encouraging words about us pushing out the site more!

One of the things we'll be doing this week is going back to all of the articles and tweets we've been sent and reaching out to those crying out for a better website for book lovers out there. 

You'll get an update to the response next week. 😁

What I'm reading right now

It's been a while since I read some True Crime:

😬

Is it a genre you ever explore, whether in book, podcast, or documentary format?

Have a great week,

Nadia

P.S. If you know a friend who's an avid reader or would enjoy following along with this journey, please do forward this email to them! Thank you. :-)

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