ugenie.com – iRead, A Community For Book Lovers

iRead is an application and online community for book lovers. Once registered, you list, rate, and write reviews about books you are reading or what you have read in the past. Based on your reviews and preferences, you can find other readers with similar tastes, and check out their reading lists and recommendations to find more books you might enjoy. You can also browse randomly through other users’ reading lists and reviews. The iRead application for Facebook has already become very popular, with over one million registered users. The eight-month old site claims to have over 20 million books added to date. You can also add the iRead to your MySpace, Vebo, and soon, Orkut pages.

"iRead is a community for book lovers. Whether you love classics or popular fiction; whether you love 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."

This site and its Facebook application have grown very quickly in just eight months since launching. If they could tie in a way to purchase recommended books directly from their site, it could prove very profitable.

Will we see this site incorporate a way for users to purchase the books recommended to them? Will iRead continue to grow at such a fast pace as it has so far?