Goodreads
Are you having trouble remembering the title of that book you'd like to recommend? Are you always being asked for novels set in the First World War or compiling a book lists for programs.
Using one of the social networking sites for readers can help you keep track of what you've read, what you'd like to read, or just books you’ve heard about. Goodreads is the biggest and most popular with (according to Quill and Quire last month) 4.77 million users. You can organize your books on virtual shelves by category which can be a broad as Non-fiction or as narrow as Canadian WWI fiction. All of this is very handy because your lists are available to you on any computer or mobile device not just back at your desk or lost in the murky depths of your brain. You can also look at your friends’ shelves which is very useful if your friend reads books about the war and you don’t, but need some titles to recommend.
There's no requirement to have "friends" and no one will ever know if you really read any of your books so you can use Goodreads just to compile lists for displays or programs or reference.
GalleyCat, the publishing blog, recently posted a list of the top 20 Facebook Apps for book lovers ranked by active monthly users and Goodreads was number one.
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