Watch & Read
Athenana now knows the difference between a page and the film, book or record it's about. Here's what that adds up to.
Films and books get their cards. Save an IMDb, Letterboxd, Goodreads or Open Library page — or any review that names one film or book — and Athenana recognises the work: poster or cover, year, who made it, and a trailer when there is one, played only when you press it. Everything already imported from Letterboxd and Goodreads got the same treatment. Two saves of the same film are now one film.
Shelves. Discover has Watch and Read tabs: a shelf of what you've marked to watch or read. Add a title by name — "watch Heat" in quick add does it. Marking one watched or read keeps the save and offers a note. No counts, no streaks, nothing turns red.
Where to watch. A saved film shows the services it streams on, a way to rent or buy it when nothing does, and — if it's old enough to be in the public domain — plays right on its page.
Picks. Each shelf has a few picks, made from the directors, authors and genres of what you saved and finished, and from books that two or more of your saved articles mention. The list they're made from sits beside them: remove anything, add "more westerns" by hand. "Robert Caro has a new book" is the kind of pick it's for. A pick you ignore is gone at the next refresh.
Lists you saved, unpacked. A saved "25 best westerns" page shows the works it names, each confirmed against TMDB, Open Library, MusicBrainz or Apple's podcast directory, with Save, Follow and buy links. Nothing enters your library until you press Save.
Your Kindle highlights come home. Upload a Kindle's My Clippings.txt and every highlight lands on its book, as a private, searchable item. The file is deleted once it's read.
Now. Press Watching now, Reading now or Listening now and it appears at the top of your blog and on its /now page. Finish it and it comes off by itself.
A shelf on your blog. Your blog has a shelf: the films, books and music among what you've already published, each linking to its post. It shows nothing your blog doesn't already show.