Monday, January 09, 2012

DO YOU LOVE TO READ... BUT WISH IT WAS NOT SUCH A SOLITARY EXPERIENCE


Join almost 1.5MM readers and check out a social network for avid readers.  List your personal collection and connect with “like [or unlike] minds.”  Then browse THEIR collections and share ideas and opinions with reviews.  You can join for free and can upgrade your account to catalog as many books as you want to.  Head over to http://www.librarything.com.

Click the TALK section tab and then look at a topic of interest.  Join one of the groups.  Browse the Local entries for lists of book stores and libraries that are nearby.  Click MORE and you can get free books and review them, e.g. for Amazon.com.  Click Zeitgeist for 25 most reviewed books and other statistics.  It  probably won’t surprise you to find that J.K. Rowling and Stephen King are the top two of 75 authors.  William Shakespeare is #7.  TheTop 25 Books list gives places 1 through 8 to the Harry Potter Books.

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