Finally, I've stumbled upon something I will actually be able to use beyond the Discover 2.0 course. This unit got me really excited as I'm constantly finding and reading interesting books and think it would be fun to post and share my thoughts. I signed up for the LibraryThing site simply because it looked very organized and colorful and " icon and graphic friendly". I loved being able to see the covers of the books and how easy it was to rank them by clicking on the green stars and review them by clicking on the pencil. I also really liked how it pulled information from Amazon or the Library of Congress. I even found two rare books (Gymnastics: The Art of Sport and Gymnastics: In Perspective) which are two beautiful coffee table books but are very hard to find... if LibraryThing can pull up these two books I'm very impressed as no library or bookstore I've ever been to has carried them. (how I acquired my copies is another story for another blog but they are prominently displayed on my personal bookshelf). :o)
It may sound kind of judgemental, but one of the reasons I didn't choose GoodReads was because of the Excel Spreadsheet feature. Out of all the Microsoft Office programs, Excel was one I never mastered and still find kind of confusing (I'm just not into cells and formulas!). I was kind of turned off by that feature and chose LibraryThing over GoodReads. For the amount of time I have spent on it, I'm very impressed with LibraryThing so far and plan to spend some more time playing around with it and reviewing books on it in the future.
The link to my LibraryThing account is: http://librarything.com/catalog/Glendyne
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