App Highlight: iRead

Posted by Harish Abbott, Ugenie

[As we get ready for apps to go live on orkut, we're excited to invite orkut developers to guest blog and preview their apps here.- The orkut team]

What you read says a lot about you. So what better way to tell your friends who you really are than to show them what you have read? And what better way to discover new sides of your friends than to see what they have read? You can do all that and more through iRead. iRead is a vibrant community of book lovers that lets you:

• Build your virtual bookshelf by listing, rating and reviewing books you are currently reading or have read in the past.
• Browse what your friends are reading and see what they have said about books you're interested in.
• Discover new books that you will like and discover people who share your taste in books.
• Have fun! Chuck a book at a friend, take a quiz, challenge friends, meet writers, chat & discuss books.

Whether you love classics or popular fiction, Dickens or Dan Brown, iRead is a place where you can find others who share your reading tastes and through them discover new books that you will love. iReaders have already added over 22 million books to their virtual bookshelves and submitted hundreds of thousands of reviews and ratings. iRead is excited to be part of orkut and to expand this community and make it more vibrant. So come on, join the social book discovery revolution!