Looks very nice!
You've made some great improvements to the site over the last few days. As many others have pointed out, the place looks more 'BookTalky'. I would imagine this will bring in more memebers, as the board now
immediately looks unique; where as before it looked, at a first glance like 'just another discussion community'.
My one problem is with the book database:
First of all, there are too many graphics. It takes a long time to load on dial-up even at this early stage (and this will get worse as the database gets bigger). Perhaps a 'text only' option would be nice?
Second; there is no information about the book. I know that I could click my way through onto amazon and read the reviews there, but I would like to be able to read some comments about it first (and then later do further research on amazon if I am so inclined). Maybe there should be a 'comments' section where members can post - in particular the member who suggested the book in the first place.
Just some ideas. Keep up the good work chris!