I finished entering in my reading list over at Reader2 and was surprised to see that I had grossly underestimated the amount, which clocks in at 109 books while slightly overestimating what I had actually read in the past year, only 22. Needless to say I have plenty of reading ahead of me and really ought to think about taking some days off work to at least make a bigger dent in the 84 books that remain.

On the right hand side are the two feeds for my Read and To Read lists, which leads to some of my gripes with the RSS feeds over at Reader2.

• Why do the links point to my profile? They really ought to go to the page for the book.
• Why is the data set so limited? Author, Status, Type, and Tags would all be very nice editions and would greatly enhance its functionality.
• The ad crammed into the first record’s description field is a tad abrupt and would be better placed at the end of the file. For people using the feed on their site it can cause formating issues, in my case it breaks apart the sidebar and seriously fugs things up.

Seeing as the project is run by one guy (I think) and some of these gripes are on the To-Do list so rest assured that they’ll get addressed sometime. Overall, I am finding the service fairly valuable and I love the ability to get suggestions on what to read next as well as see what others have been reading.  Good stuff.

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