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GR has announced a Book Page Design Change
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Tullia wrote: "Thanks for the heads-up, Ellie. I saw a few pages like this yesterday. I think it's a good change."
I like the design change, but I disagree with it from a practical side.
The new design hides a lot of information that used to be visible on the book page.
One example:
Recently Goodreads removed the genre/shelf box from books that haven't been shelved enough times, so if you want to see how other people have shelved it (something I do for various reasons) you had to scroll through the pages of non-text reviews. Since those non-text reviews displayed the shelves, the box was considered as a duplicative information.
See the exact explanation here: "Removing the shelves box was a design decision because it was seen to be duplicative. On books with few reviews, the shelving activity is already pretty visible in the Community Reviews section."
Well now with the new design those shelves are not visible, and we don't have the shelf box as well, so good luck in finding all the information you might need for a new and not popular book.
The date someone added a book is also not visible.
For me this is the another change that decreases GR functionality.
I like the design change, but I disagree with it from a practical side.
The new design hides a lot of information that used to be visible on the book page.
One example:
Recently Goodreads removed the genre/shelf box from books that haven't been shelved enough times, so if you want to see how other people have shelved it (something I do for various reasons) you had to scroll through the pages of non-text reviews. Since those non-text reviews displayed the shelves, the box was considered as a duplicative information.
See the exact explanation here: "Removing the shelves box was a design decision because it was seen to be duplicative. On books with few reviews, the shelving activity is already pretty visible in the Community Reviews section."
Well now with the new design those shelves are not visible, and we don't have the shelf box as well, so good luck in finding all the information you might need for a new and not popular book.
The date someone added a book is also not visible.
For me this is the another change that decreases GR functionality.

Not all books will have the change yet, as Goodreads takes it's time when caching the pages.