Thing 35

Book 2.0: I love using Librarything. Librarything might be my favorite thing for the 1st 23 things. For this thing I decided to try lib.rario.us. It's pretty cool. Seems to be pretty much the same thing as Librarything. I suppose, if i was so included, I could keep track of my DVD collection here. I am ultra nerdy and i keep track of what I've watched and when I watched it last. I could totally use lib.rario.us for that instead of little slips of paper tucked instead all of my DVDs.

I checked out Books in My Phone, but I couldn't get it to work right. I'm sure with a little more fiddling I get it. It'll just take some time.

I tried Read Trails, and it's an interesting concept. I'm not sure I really get it. It's not so much about listing books in a series as it is listing books that have a vague correlation or books with similar themes. I added one, I don't know that I will become a frequent user, but you never know.

I checked out Overbooked, and it seemed pretty cool. I got a lot of Douglas Adamsque recommendation that I hadn't gotten before.

I took a look at Book Sprouts. Online book groups could be cool. I'm generally afraid of book groups because I don't think enough of the people in them will share my tastes enough for books I will enjoy to be selected as reading materials. Plus I find people take book groups too seriously. But an online might have a totally different vibe.

Podiobooks is also interesting. I started listening to "down and Out in the Magic Kingdom", and it seemed pretty cool. I like that the site has stuff you're not going to find anywhere else.

Swaptree is an interesting idea. I might become a user of this site. Though I'd prefer a place to find people who were interested in buying stuff I want to get rid of. Still trading is cool.

BookBrowse also seems pretty cool. There's a lot of neat stuff out there. It's just a matter of being able to keep it all straight. When I want a recommendation for a good book, I have like 9,000,000,000 options for where to go. Plus there are the piles of books I have at home that I've yet to read, and all the books that look cool as I see them getting checked out to other people. It's almost overwhelming.

Just One More Book would be cool if i had any interest in kids books. I don't, but if someone did this would be a cool thing to check out.

Booksfree is netflix for books. But it's not free. Which is somewhat miss leading.

I've tried a few of Facebook's book aps. And I like them, just not as much as I like Librarything. Which reminds me, I need to shell out a little green if I want to keep using librarything.

Honestly, I think books are going to be around for quite a while yet. There's still money to be made. When there isn't any cash involved anymore, then you'll see an exodus away from them. The library is as busy as it's ever been and our numbers keep going up. I think this points to people needing/wanting one of our core services: Books! Many of the sites I visited enhanced book reading, but didn't really make me think books are going out of style.