[queentess]

Ok, not impressed. There's no way I would use this site. I find it incredibly difficult to navigate, and it's designed more like a bookstore than a social site or book review site.

If you can find the book you're looking for (the search is very slow), then you have to locate the version you want; they're not combined. There's a big ADD TO CART button on the first page of the book, but there are no reviews and the rating scale is... unreadable. It's a bar with a 1 and a 5 and some colors, but I have no idea what it represents. There's also something called a "community value", but it's 0 on all the books I looked at, so I'm not sure what this does. Correction, it's a 47 on Ender's Game. But I still have no idea what this represents. Can't click on it, and there's no FAQ or About page that I could find information on.

I looked up a Robin Hobb book. There's a "Similar Reads" section, but of the first 4 books listed, 3 are the same book with different covers.

Oh, wait, I have to click this other button for the reviews. Ok. Hmm. All the reviews are from LibraryThing, and it's very difficult to associate a review with a particular person. On goodreads I can go by name or avatar, both clearly visible. On copia the name is written in very teeny letters at the end of the review, which is odd because EVERY OTHER FONT ON THE SITE IS GI-GUNDOUS. And the name is not clickable, so I can't see if this person has any other books in common with me. Nor can I leave a response to their review, or mark it as helpful, or really anything I should be able to do on a review and discussion site. I also can't go to just the 1-star reviews or just the 5-star reviews. They are automatically sorted by most recent date, and you can either show all reviews or only your friends' reviews; those are the only options.

Everything I initially click on isn't clickable, so I have to step back and think "ok, where am I supposed to click to go to this thing?" The interface is graphically ok, but I have major issues with it's functionality and ease of use. It looks very "Apple".

Has the same Tags and Book Status as goodreads; Status is even has more options, which I like.

I did a search for any discussion group with "fantasy" in the name, and it came up 0 results, but did suggest one group that is about some group called "The Inklings", which do not read fantasy. I can understand that if the site is in beta it won't have many discussion groups, and they won't be as well established as those on goodreads, but some of the groups have posts dating back to May and everyone seems to have abandoned them.

I can't even figure out how to compare my books with someone else. I intentionally added two books that Nate had in his list, and it shows me that we have two books in common, but it does not show me my rating or his. There's no easy way to compare.

From what I can tell (and I may be wrong on this point), the Discussion groups don't have the ability to read books together. There's no clear way to say "we're reading this book this month and will discuss it". That's something I really love about goodreads, being able to have a virtual book discussion. (My local library has great discussions, but never about SFF books.)

And as one final kick in the pants, every time I glance up at my Copia browser tab, I think it's the Netscape logo...