12. Goodreads vs. Librarything
More Social
More Community Based
More Popular
http://www.hellolibrary.com/school/goodrea
ds/Comparison.html
13. Goodreads vs. Librarything
More organizational
More integration with libraries
Need paid account for > 200 books
http://www.hellolibrary.com/school/goodrea
ds/Comparison.html
14. What Should I Read Next?
http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/
18. What sites do you use?
Shelfari
Fantastic Fiction
Literature Map
Novelist (requires subscription)
For mystery readers: Stop You’re Killing
Me
1- Book Discovery. I talked with Chad. He was mainly going to talk about GoodReads (and how libraries are integrating it into catalogs, etc), Library Thing, Game of Books and Booklamp me: Game of Books, eh? Never heard of that one.
Adding a book (choose sources)Local sources
1.Look up a book by title, author, or ISBN2.Scroll down to see “lists with this book” - click on “more lists” to find other related lists3.Back on the book’s home page, check out the list of “popular shelves.” Clicking on the name of the shelf gives you the books most frequently listed in that category. Clicking on “more shelves” leads you to other commonly listed shelves4.Also in the right hand column, you’ll find more books by the author (when applicable) and a list - much like Amazon’s - called “people who viewed this book viewed...”5.If you find another book that looks good, click on the WorldCat logo (underneath the book’s description) to check for it in a library near you