Hoping that I haven't used up all the brain power available during this cycle ...
I was thinking about why I thought (think) that the widgets should show more than one book. Yes, it makes it easy to be reading more than one book at a time (I do that), but perhaps there is more to it than that. I ended up with three questions:
- Should the list be limited at 6? At 4? At 50? I picked 6 out of the air. Note that a large limit (more than one or two hundred) isn't a particularly good idea because of how the list is implemented to avoid the database upgrade. Note also that the different widget kinds can have different limits, should that be of interest.
- Should there be a way to add a book to the list without actually opening it in a reader, probably a menu line in book details? This would would make the list more akin to "books I have read or want to read".
- Corallary to the above, should there be a way to remove a book from the list?
I am not trying to make work for myself, but it seems worth thinking a bit about other ways these widgets might be used before anything is cast in stone.