In order to make it easier for members to find great book reviews, we have added several new groups which carry external book review headlines.
You can get these book reviews in your activity feed simply by joining one or more of the groups. By default, each group’s email setting has been set to none. This is so you don’t accidentally overwhelm your inbox if you join a particularly busy group. If you want to get book review headlines by email you can change your email preferences for each group.
So far we have added:
- Evening Standard’s book reviews
- The Independent’s book reviews
- Waterstones’ blog headlines (which may or may not be working)
- The Spectator book reviews
- The Guardian book reviews
If the entities in question would like to control their group, we would be happy to assign control to a nominated agent or employee.
We have also created a group called Book bloggers which has feeds from a number of popular UK based book bloggers. We hope to add more feeds to the group and so have added a forum to the group where further blogs can be suggested.
I’m rather pleased with this.
I’m guessing these groups are populated from RSS feeds. I’m also guessing that no prior permission is needed to access those feeds. That said, wouldn’t it have been better to group all these feeds into one group so we didn’t have to trawl through 5+ groups for reviews?
Funny you should say that. Yes the headlines come via a public RSS feed from the sites in question. The newspaper ones I gave a group each so that people can decided which they want to see in their personalised feed. It also means the paper in questions can come and claim their group should they feel so inclined. All the blog based book review feeds are in the same group.