Monday, July 25, 2011

Beyond Method #5

  Examining the different sites, I decided against LibraryThing because of the 200 book limit (unless you pay).  And although I usually go to Amazon.com for reviews, I wasn't overly impressed with Shelfari.  Plus, I already had an account at Goodreads.  So I revisited it and found new things to like:
  • Way to mark books "to read"
  • Other people's rating (and the rating frequency chart)
  • Like-minded readers, reviews & recommendations
  So I think this would be an excellent reader's advisory tool -- to advise me what I want to choose next.
   I like the idea of LibraryThing for Libraries (a lot) but, I don't think enough of our patrons would use this online resource to justify the cost.

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