Every week Nell Boeschenstein of C-VILLE Weekly drags forth the best of the Web and advises us to Hit This Site. This week’s pick is a literary version of MySpace/Facebook called Good Reads, which advertises itself as a way to:
- see what your friends are reading
- keep track of what you’ve read and what you’d like to read
- get great book recommendations from people you know
Kind of like LibraryThing, but with friends. Authors as well as readers are welcome.
Me, I’m waiting for MyGoodFaceThing.com, so I can just hit it once and be done. But if you give Good Reads a whirl, let us know what you think.
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there are actually a lot more sites similar to this around the internet. i like librarything’s layout and user-friendliness but the only down part is we only get to catalog 200 books for free and the rest have to be paid a lifetime fee. others like reader2, shelfari, gurulib, allconsuming, delicious library, and bookpedia are free, though librarything seems to be the best in terms of features.
I prefer Shelfari, to be honest. It has a better interface and the users (Shelfarians, I guess) seem to be more active.
LibraryThing is pretty good, too, but you can only store 200 books for free. :-/
I do goodreads.com and like it, largely because I have family and friends on there also, so I can see what they’re reading.
I’m also on Goodreads.com because a lot of friends from various lit circles are there. Any of them can be a huge time sink, though.
Looks like a place where I could easily spend half my life.
Oooooh, I’m tempted….
Good books.
Good reads.
-I’ll quickly mention I’m near finished w/ JG Ballard’s “High-Rise” (intense & vivid) juxtaposed while also reading SR Delany’s “Dhalgren” (“a brilliant tour de force”). I am interested & intrigued w/ the idea of this site; fascination compels me like Nabokov’s “Pale Fire”.
I’m such a word ham, heh! I should’ve just said “Sounds great! Sign me in, please…”