New "Your Books" view?

[j6k4m8]

Right now, the "Your Books" section of the homepage is a bit hard to use/parse. It only shows a small number of books, but there's a mysterious rightward scroll... If you have more than five "currently reading" books then it shows no others. If you have fewer, then there are completely hidden sections to the right, behind a scroll. Others have commented on this unintuitive UI, such as #3468 and some commentary in #2481.

Describe the solution you'd like

Wondering if the Bookwyrm team would be interested in a PR implementing something more like this;

Would of course be willing to put my python where my mouth is, so to speak :) And also I'm interested in others' opinions on the UI here, this is clearly not the perfect answer yet...

[Skivling]

Just ideas:

• I like having just the clickable book cover rather than a small one, title and author
• I agree: I don't like the sideways scroll, downward makes more sense
• It could be renamed to 'Your Bookshelf' because that's cool

[j6k4m8]

Thanks @Skivling !! Something liiiiiike

With the same behavior if you click a book — opening up the "write a review" pane right under that book:

idk maybe that is silly UX too? imo I NEVER use that pane (I add a rating to the book when I mark it as done / "read" but that's a star rating on the page of the book (which, yeah, takes an extra step #2693) so I don't have to give it text too. so maybe other users who use that pane more often would be annoyed by this. not sure how burdensome it is relative to clicking in the horizontal scroll pane right now though :)

[marek-lach]

With the same behavior if you click a book — opening up the "write a review" pane right under that book:

+1 for that, it looks nice to me.

[Skivling]

@j6k4m8 The 'idk something else' section would be a suggestion from your to-read list. I also think it should adapt to how many are being read currently. In the example there are 3 books currently being read so the other two sections should also show 3 books so it's even?

Also note that on mobile it might be really weird with 3 vertical columns of one's books.