As announced, some information about upcoming features. There are two major plans for growth for this site: 1. Become a useful tool for bookworms, or 2. Turn into a book-oriented community portal. I think that option one will be more beneficial and therefore I'll try to introduce more user-centric features (book suggestions, quote boxes) instead of community-centric ones (forums, messages, avatars). Feel free to argue with me here.
Also, check your goodies page. The images that you can embed (on your blog or in your forum signature) have now a new, prettier look.
I'm conducting some tests concerning book suggestions and this feature will be put online soon. However it might not always show accurate propositions - but I'll try to provide improvements.
Testing goes well and the new functionality (that is: book suggestions) will be launched on 27th May.
Meanwhile I've made one update regarding embeddable images - they're no longer refreshed each time an image is displayed. As a result, you might mark certain book as read but it will take some time (currently three hours at maximum) until this change is reflected in the embeddable image. This should improve a little the overall stability and speed of the site.