We're really happy to welcome a bunch of new beta readers to the site in the last few weeks. With a big group of new people come lots of new questions, and some common themes. To help everyone get the most out of the site, Paul and I wanted to ...

Have you ever wanted to add a personal message to a BetaBooks invitation? Well, now you can :) Just click the checkbox next to the invitation search field, and you'll see a new box you can type a personal message in to. Whatever you put in there will get added ...

At BetaBooks we've been running a little event called the Beta Reader Pool for the last five months. Essentially, we invite authors to submit books for consideration, and we pick whichever book we feel is the strongest to send out to a group of interested readers. Normally everything on BetaBooks ...

I'm happy to announce two new improvements for readers on the site this week, side-by-side feedback and a new option to review all your feedback for a book at once. Side-by-side Feedback When you're finished reading a chapter, sometimes you want to scroll back and pull some quotes into your ...

Today we rolled out two small changes a lot of people have asked for, both of which are pretty self-explanatory. 1. You can now "quit reading" a book. Previously readers could "mark as read," to remove a book from their sidebar and "Books I'm Reading" list. However, some readers felt ...