Friends who aren't techie (and have called themselves luddites) have raved about Library Thing for a while. It was one of the first Web 2.0 applications I learned about that my library colleagues praised. No wonder. It's great for promoting reading and more importantly discussions about reading. It allows people to catalog their own collections and it gives you yet another widget.
Student or adult book clubs could use this as home base. Adults might be even more enthusiastic as students can use myspace etc to share fav books.
No surprise that my list was also popular with other Library Thing users b/c Breaking Dawn was one of my titles. I was pleased to see the number of people reading a favorite author of mine-- Walter Mosley.
No surprise either that the reviews are of uneven quality, but few are truly bad. Some are outstanding--full of analysis, deep but readable. Great fodder for writing classes here.
The question soon becomes "which?" Shelfari? Goodreads? librarything? MySpace? What's a reader to do?
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