How to stay connected with book bloggers?

1:42 pm 29 January 2015

How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.

Haruki Murakami

We're fans of the traditional letters but we're also fans of fast and comfortable solutions. Now you can send messages to BookLikes members and receive letters from your friends on BookLikes.

Your blogs has received a send option which is visible in the upper right corner on your public webpage.

The envelope icon will take you to the messages page with filled up addressee field so if you wish to contact the blogger all you have to do it to add your message and hit send.

The messages settings has been renewed and new options have been added. Now you can choose from four options from whom you want to receive messages:

1. followers

2. followings

3. all BookLikes members

4. no one

To see new options, go to the Messages Page and select the options that best suits you. To view your messages page, click the notification square and choose Messages:

To choose your Messages options, click the Settings icon on the right. You will receive the messages according to your messages preferences.

If you wish to send a message to a person who doesn't allow messages, you'll receive a notifications.

Updates

Reading Challenges

Now you can share your past reading challenges, completed or not, with the Reading Challenges widgets. Go to Goodies/Widgets and select a year of Challenge, then copy the code and paste it in the Widget Area in the customization tab.

Each Challenge has got it's own unique code so if you want to show three reading challenges, choose the year and copy/paste the code one by one. You can add as many widgets to the Widget Area in the customization tab as you wish.