I recently came across a great site for book lovers like myself – Shelfari. You can catalog your books, tag and review them, and discuss with others. It’s basically a social media site based upon books. And it’s free.
I have yet to enter all of my bird books, but I have made a start. If you wish, you can check out my shelf. If you ever see anything on there that you’d like me to review, let me know, and I’ll do my best to accommodate. Also, using a Shelfari feature, I can show on my site here what books I’m currently reading. They appear at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Theoretically, they should become my next reviews.
There are some other, similar sites, such as LibraryThing, but you can only enter up to 200 books for free there.
Anyways, check it out, see if it could be useful for you. If you do join up, I’d love to know.
Posted by Grant McCreary on April 26th, 2008.
I just visited your shelf. It’s a very attractive site, and I’m tempted to join. It’s especially fun to see what you’re reading and wishing for. I just finished re-read much of Douglas Carlson’s Peterson bio and would like to hear what you think of it. Peterson’s 100th birthday is August 28, so it’s a good time to be thinking about him and his legacy. Thanks for letting everyone know about Shelfari!
Thanks Julie.
I’ve got the other recent bio of Peterson, “Birdwatcher”, by Rosenthal. I’ll be reading it shortly. I have not read the one by Carlson, although I’d like to in order to compare them.