While I am in process of setting up my new blog, I tried out different social networking book sites that allow users to catalog their books, share reviews and share book lists.
Out of the few sites I tried, I am giving my votes to Shelfari and Library Thing.
Shelfari is voted by Mashable as one of the top 10 most beautiful social networking sites and it truly is great looking and easy to use.
LibraryThing ‘s free account allows up to 200 books with a premium service if you want to add more and it has a great tagging feature. Shelfari, on the other hand seems to allow you to add as many books as you like (a great plus for me who have more than 200 books for sure).
I’ve read several comparisons and reviews of both and many seems to like Shelfari more, for its aesthetically pleasing look and more interesting “groups” while serious book lovers seem to prefer Library Thing.
For me, I like both for different features. I really like one of LibraryThing’s features that allow me to see how many books I have in common with another user/ friend. For Shelfari, I like the colorful pages and the easy one-click function whenever I add on new books.
My final vote between the two goes to Library Thing but I might change my mind as I go along.
Meantime, here’re my ever growing lists in both.
1) My Shelfari Book List
2) My LibraryThing Book List
C’mon man, are you WordPressing, Livejournaling or Blogspotting?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on these sites. I’ll definitely take a look at them. Shelfari sounds quite interesting…
Thanks for sharing, very good list of social networking sites.
hah Brennan, I am gonna move to my own site at http://www.priscillatan.com, am testing a few stuff at the moment, so it’s everywhere. Bear with me for a while more.
Check out the book sites and let me know if you found any other cool ones to share.
Hi Mike, thanks for dropping by. You’ve some cool stuff on your blog. Enjoy checking out Shelfari!
hey..u really did it..u merged all ur three sites to one under priscillatan.com…wicked!! We need to have a party on this one..
Goodreads.com is a nice one as well.
Jason, yah! i got it up and running but unfortunately, didnt manage to merge everything. I only import a few old entries over. heh. Starting afresh!
John, thank for the link. will check that out!
I gave both a try and so far Shelfari is winning by a big margin. It seems to have a better feature set. Adding books and setting the proper cover is a lot easier with Shelfari. I do wish it had more options for displaying my library on other sites, though.
Many friends prefer Shelfari too. The other one is at bookjetty.com
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hey priscilla..nice world u got!
im doin a coursework on social networking sites..
could u pls suggest me few books i could refer to to help on this? u can drop me a mail..
thanks…n take care
Also check out http://www.100bestsocialnetworksites.com/books.html for an up to date list of the most popular book social network sites ranked by popularity. It is a new site still in beta.
Thanks for sharing, Brian!
Hi Priscilla,
First time I come across your blog.
Thanks for the reviews, I just joined a few Social Networks for books and your view was helpful.
I guess I’ll add you once inside!
Cheers,
Miguel
Glad the “review” was helpful.
Thanks for the list, You can also add http://Ioch.org (Valid PR 4) social networking site that share & deliver News & enable user to publish & share their articles with other users.
Very very good list of social networking sites. Probably the best so far i have seen on the internet.
Thank you so much
Has anyone heard of Authonomy http://www.authonomy.com run by the publisher Harper Collins. Authors publish extracts of their books on the site, and members back other members’ books. The books are arranged in charts according to how many people have backed them, and the top five books each monoth are reviewed by Harper Collins editors.
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thanks guy for your information…
very good recommandations , thanks
I bought some kind of social booking sites submitting service before but never get right.
but the sites you recommand is really good.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on these sites. I’ll definitely take a look at them. Shelfari sounds quite interesting…
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