I’ve been wanting to cover 7books for a while, Tom Critchlow built this website as a project to learn Python and that’s certainly something we want to push on this blog, so what is it? Playlists for book lovers, sign in and create a playlist of books you think work well together as a collection or series – sounds good!
But not content with eating Turkey and pulling crackers Tom decided to do a groundup rewrite of the site bringing it up to scratch with the rest of the Web 2.0 crowd (Facebook + Twitter Login, AJAX!!!!, Embeddable lists) and quite a few changes on the backend.
The site has been growing rapidly since its launch in early November and has a pretty good monetisation plan with Amazon affiliate links. I’d love to be able to click a book and see what lists it is on (I assume once enough data is collected Tom will be playing about with a recommendations engine).
You can visit the site at : http://www.7bks.com/ or follow on twitter at @7books
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