BetterReads

Public pages

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Home page

• The home page displays a brief information about BetterReads.
• It also shows the 8 books that currently have the highest rating.
• The top books are cached for 10 minutes.

Search page

• Search has server side paging, filtering and sorting.
• Books can be
  • Searched by word or phrase that is contained in the title or the author's name.
  • Filtered so that they only belong to certaing genres.
  • Order by title and author in ascending or year of publishing in descending.

Book page

• It shows detailed information about each book
  • title, author, description, date of publishing, rating
• Rating
  • Unregistered users can only see book rating.
  • Registered users can give their rating for the book.

Private pages

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Chat

• Registered users can chat with other registered users.
  • Uses SignalR

Profile page

• Every registered has a personal profile page

Admin pages

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Add Book

• Admin can add new books to BetterReads.
  • Genres in the add book form are cached.