User:DanaALapBa/Lubimyczytać.pl

Lubimyczytac.pl is a Social Network created in 2009 in Poznan. It's a Polish website and mobile application dedicated to books. The mobile application allows you to quickly find information about the books you are looking for by just taking a photo of the selected book cover.

According to the Megapanel PBI/Gemius research (June 2016), the first largest portal in the Culture and Literature category on the Polish Internet. The website's database contains over 2.3 million unique opinions, 24 million ratings and almost 500,000 books.

Website operation
The website lubimyczytać.pl is co-created by a community of readers who rate books and write opinions about them. After creating a free account, users set up their virtual library, where they mark the books they read, want to read or have read. They receive system-generated recommendations consistent with their reading tastes, they can search for people with similar literary tastes, discuss literature, add quotations and follow new publications. It is also an opinion-forming information portal where you can read news from the world of literature, journalistic articles, columns, comments, interviews with authors, and take part in literary competitions.

2015 Readers Choice Awards
On February 1st, 2016 this portal launched the first Book of the Year online contest. Readers voted for best books of the previous year (2015) among 190 nominated titles from 63 publishing houses. During the four weeks readers cast 100,288 votes and the Readers’ Choice for the Best Book of the Year Award were granted in 10 categories.

2022 Readers Choice Awards
In 2022, the eighth edition of the online contest, categories expanded to total of 14. The newest category added was for the 'Book Person of the Year' - a title given to the most popular and best-promoter of books online. Readers cast 197,553 votes. The following books and people won in their categories: (original English titles in brackets) if not, only Polish version is available:


 * Fiction: „Zanim wystygnie kawa”(Before the Coffee Gets Cold) Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Grupa Wydawnicza Relacja
 * Historical Fiction: „Chołod” Szczepan Twardoch, wyd. Literackie
 * Mystery & Thriller: „Skazanie” Remigiusz Mróz, wyd. Czwarta Strona
 * Contemporary Fiction & Romance: „Angry God” Julia Brylewska, wyd. NieZwykłe
 * Non-fiction: „Fakty muszą zatańczyć” Mariusz Szczygieł, wyd. Dowody
 * Memoir & Autobiography: „Naku*wiam zen” Maria Peszek, wyd. Marginesy
 * Fantasy: „Baśniowe opowieści” (Fairy Tale)Stephen King, wyd. Albatros
 * Science fiction: „Projekt Riese” Remigiusz Mróz, wyd. Filia
 * Horror: „Śpij, dziecinki, śpij” Jolanta Bartoś, wyd. Zysk i S-ka
 * Young Adult Fiction: „Rodzina Monet. Skarb” Weronika Marczak, wyd. You & YA
 * Young Adult Fantasy: „Krew i popiół” (From Ash and Blood) Jennifer L. Armentrout, wyd. You & YA
 * Children: „Małe Licho i krok w nieznane” Marta Kisiel, wyd. Miętówka
 * Debut Novel: „Schronisko, które przestało istnień” Sławomir Gortych, wyd. Dolnośląskie
 * Person of The Year: Zaksiążkowane