I need to sign up for Goodreads, but I feel like it will take me forever to catalog ALL THE BOOKS I OWN AND EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER READ.
These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polter-Cow - Jan 04, 2012 12:13:33 pm PST #17313 of 28279
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
megan walker - Jan 04, 2012 12:20:08 pm PST #17314 of 28279
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Are you on shelfari or librarything? Because you can import stuff into Goodreads.
Amy - Jan 04, 2012 12:20:20 pm PST #17315 of 28279
Because books.
I'm not expecting to ever get that done, P-C. I doubt anyone is, except members who sign up at thirteen.
Weird that To the Lighthouse isn't available on Gutenberg. Only Night and Day, The Voyage Out, Jacob's Room, and Monday or Tuesday are. But wouldn't they all be in the public domain, rather than just some of them?
Connie Neil - Jan 04, 2012 12:24:53 pm PST #17316 of 28279
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Not if they'd renewed the copyright.
edit: And the Australian Gutenberg site has different rules about copyright, so different books are available--not that I'd ever suggest ways that people could circumvent the laws of our fair nation.
sumi - Jan 04, 2012 12:26:11 pm PST #17317 of 28279
Art Crawl!!!
Do they have "A Room of One's Own"?
Polter-Cow - Jan 04, 2012 12:27:26 pm PST #17318 of 28279
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Are you on shelfari or librarything? Because you can import stuff into Goodreads.
Nope. How are they different?
I'm not expecting to ever get that done, P-C. I doubt anyone is, except members who sign up at thirteen.
I guess I could at the very least put what's on my bookshelf and add books I know I've read when I remember them. Of course, my ratings would be really wonky, like some of my old Netflix ratings.
megan walker - Jan 04, 2012 1:11:23 pm PST #17319 of 28279
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Nope. How are they different?
Well, I was originally on Shelfari, but found Goodreads UI and other features to be way more useful for me.
I liked LibraryThing, but (I believe) they limit the number of books on free accounts.
I absolutely love Goodreads (and as some people know, it's the first place I applied when I was job hunting. It's still my dream job, but they employ like 20 people total). I use it for tracking my reading but I also use the listopia lists a lot when making book salon lists.
You can get an idea how it looks and works on my page: [link]
Amy - Jan 04, 2012 1:13:17 pm PST #17320 of 28279
Because books.
I loved LibraryThing, but I didn't want a paid account, either. And I think you could only catalog 200 books for free.
I haven't explored Goodreads enough (and I do avoid some of it, because apparently some author/reviewer nastiness has been going on, and I hate anything like that), but I'm also interested to see what Bookish will be like.
Tom Scola - Jan 04, 2012 2:07:02 pm PST #17321 of 28279
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
sumi - Jan 05, 2012 5:37:11 am PST #17322 of 28279
Art Crawl!!!
Amazon just recommended Midnight in Austenland to me.