Thursday, 29 November 2007

11. Librarything

Very nice site; I's very impressed with the layout and the ease of use. Almost naivly simple to sign up to an account.

I like the suggestor and unsuggestor searches; I looked for a fairly popular author with lots of books (Terry Pratchett), and it actually came up with not only similar and appropriate books (which I had already read) but also a few I shall have a go at. I'm a little annoyed that they seem to focus quite heavily on results from Amazon, but I suppose if they have access to that behemouth's database of ratings, suggestions etc then they would be foolish not to use it (not that I've had much success with Amazon's suggestions before).

What would be great would be the ability to export our reading history from My Info so it can be imported into sites like this (or even a home based database, of which there are many).

My bookshelf; http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=radnom&shelf=list

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What a good idea, maybe you can