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soooo, i have a 'shelfari' account now.
basically it is a place where you can talk about books. i found out about it through Time magazine (yeah, big internet fail there, who in my generation discovers internet apps through Time? haaaaaa) and it's pretty ok.
adding books to your list is a little unwieldly (the site assumes you've got a list of books hanging around somewhere else on these here interwebs, like Amazon, and i don't - that is kind of why i'm on Shelfari in the first place, Shelfari people - so i have to look up books individually with the search function) but the site is otherwise easy enough to use. finding ratings, reviews, recommendations, etc. isn't too difficult, and for most books/authors there are at least a few group discussions active. i haven't really tried much as far as the social networking goes, though...since i hate social networking
the hardest thing, actually, has been remembering what books i've read. i mean, last night i basically ran through two authors whose works i'm quite familiar with (Haruki Murakami and Dan Simmons) and once i'd listed everything of theirs i read, i hit a blank wall. on an amusing side note, if you don't give a date in which you've finished a book, the site apparently assumes you've just finished it...so every time i sign in, it looks like i've finshed a crapload of books in 5 minutes. XD
i noticed that as far as my reading habits are concerned i seem to latch onto a specific author (or series - HI DRAGONLANCE) and read their oeuvre obsessively until i've read everything readily available to me. i'm not sure if this is the best approach - i mean, on one hand, some of my favorite books are the more obscure writings of a popular author, but on the other hand...i end up putting off books by other authors, and so overall my book exposure is less varied than i'd like.
maybe after zombie summer, that'll be my next reading project - read books by different authors for a few months? (speaking of zombie summer, i finished Berserk a few days ago and have started on World War Z. the former was disappointing; the latter is shaping up to be excellent. may write more later on this.)
ANYWAY. if you're reading this, you should totally get a shelfari account so you can recommend me stuff to read/get stuff to read yourself/go 'omg, you like THAT book?' (or 'omg, you hate this book?') I WOULD APPRECIATE IT.
;)
basically it is a place where you can talk about books. i found out about it through Time magazine (yeah, big internet fail there, who in my generation discovers internet apps through Time? haaaaaa) and it's pretty ok.
adding books to your list is a little unwieldly (the site assumes you've got a list of books hanging around somewhere else on these here interwebs, like Amazon, and i don't - that is kind of why i'm on Shelfari in the first place, Shelfari people - so i have to look up books individually with the search function) but the site is otherwise easy enough to use. finding ratings, reviews, recommendations, etc. isn't too difficult, and for most books/authors there are at least a few group discussions active. i haven't really tried much as far as the social networking goes, though...
the hardest thing, actually, has been remembering what books i've read. i mean, last night i basically ran through two authors whose works i'm quite familiar with (Haruki Murakami and Dan Simmons) and once i'd listed everything of theirs i read, i hit a blank wall. on an amusing side note, if you don't give a date in which you've finished a book, the site apparently assumes you've just finished it...so every time i sign in, it looks like i've finshed a crapload of books in 5 minutes. XD
i noticed that as far as my reading habits are concerned i seem to latch onto a specific author (or series - HI DRAGONLANCE) and read their oeuvre obsessively until i've read everything readily available to me. i'm not sure if this is the best approach - i mean, on one hand, some of my favorite books are the more obscure writings of a popular author, but on the other hand...i end up putting off books by other authors, and so overall my book exposure is less varied than i'd like.
maybe after zombie summer, that'll be my next reading project - read books by different authors for a few months? (speaking of zombie summer, i finished Berserk a few days ago and have started on World War Z. the former was disappointing; the latter is shaping up to be excellent. may write more later on this.)
ANYWAY. if you're reading this, you should totally get a shelfari account so you can recommend me stuff to read/get stuff to read yourself/go 'omg, you like THAT book?' (or 'omg, you hate this book?') I WOULD APPRECIATE IT.
;)
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Date: 2009-07-05 07:00 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-07-06 02:37 am (UTC)From:i'm not sure how it compares to other book-cataloging sites, but it's been very helpful for me as far as keeping track of what i've read and suggesting new things to read, which is really all i needed.