Social Bookshelves

I heard of GoodReads from Felicia Day and then found Shelfari and LibraryThing. They all let you publicly list the books you read, are reading, or will read, and see the same of other users and groups. I think this is my point of diminishing returns from social web-services, but one of these might just be worthwhile for marketing my book.

From the cute book widget on the right, you can tell I chose Shelfari. You might think that the designers of sites for literati could, excepting GoodReads, coin names that don't cause blood to drip from my ears. LibraryThing has a one time fee. It's small, but I just can't bring myself to pay money for the meager privilege of them keeping a list of a few hundred books. GoodReads seemed fine. I just disliked their widget. Shelfari's owned by Amazon, so at least it won't disappear, and frankly I like cold faceless corporations.

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