Who uses goodreads.com

[LoneWolf]

I recently came across a site called goodreads.com (http://www.goodreads.com). It helps you keep track of books you have read and plan to read. You can create virtual book shelves. If you are the type of person who likes to track the books you have read you might want to check it out.

[dug_down_deep]

This is cool. I'm currently working my way through an Amazon best 100 of the 20th century list, and this is a better way of keeping track of it than crossing off titles on a printout.

[Daynna]

I use LibraryThing (http://www.librarything.com/) to keep track of books I own. I'll check out goodreads to track those I've read.

Also check out Bookmooch (http://www.bookmooch.com/). I love trading books!

[Brianna]

I do but I don't update it enough.

[Joykins]

I use the Visual Bookshelf application on facebook, but I don't get on enough to log everything. Sometimes I read 4-5 books in between getting on, and that application (don't know about goodreads) doesn't have a good way of distinguishing "I just read something since the last time I logged on" and "I read something 3 years ago."

[diana]

I do but I don't update it enough.I'm about the same, I think. I loaded the book app on Facebook and it was cool for about four days, after which I forgot it was there.

I don't even remember why I thought it would be fun to keep track of the books I read for pleasure.... I must have at least one anal bone in my body (just not enough to sustain such an endeavor).

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[Joykins]

I actually keep a book journal on another forum, which at least briefly describes each book I've read (sometimes I review, other times I just give a sentence and whetehr I liked it or not). I haven't found that the bookshelf application on facebook is good at storing things that way.

[LoneWolf]

After Daynna mentioned LibraryThing I checked it out also. LibraryThing seems more professional whereas Goodreads seems more, “cozy” if that makes any sense. I like them both. I think LibraryThing is better for tracking what you have in your actual collection. It allows you to be more specific in your categorizing. Finding new books to read seems easier to me at Goodreads. I like their lists. In the end Goodreads is better suited for me because I don’t really have a physical book collection. Most the books I read nowadays is on my Kindle and when I do read a physical book I usually give it away when I finish. I just want a way to track what I have read and what I want to read. Goodreads seems to fit that bill for me. But I can also see how some would prefer LibraryThing.

[LoneWolf]

I use the Visual Bookshelf application on facebook, but I don't get on enough to log everything. Sometimes I read 4-5 books in between getting on, and that application (don't know about goodreads) doesn't have a good way of distinguishing "I just read something since the last time I logged on" and "I read something 3 years ago."

Well, Goodreads does allow you to enter the date you read a book and it allows you to organize the books by several different categories, to include "date read". That is how mine are listed, with the most recently read at top, which happens to be Old Man's War, and the oldest at the bottom, which happens to be The Little Engine That Could. Yes. I am thorough. :)

[LoneWolf]

I don't even remember why I thought it would be fun to keep track of the books I read for pleasure

Reading is a passion for me. But I don’t keep books after I have read them, with the exception of a precious few. So I don't excalty have a big bookshelf of books in my office. But I still like to look back at the books I have read. It gives me a sense of accomplishment for whatever reason. The problem is I have only been keeping track for about 6 months. So I have been trying to reconstruct my reading list from memory, which is not easy. I have been using Amazon since 2001 so I at least had a list of everything I had purchased from Amazon over the past 8 years. But even for that time frame that list was not exhaustive. So I have pretty much just been going through lists and letting them jog my memory.

I have about 120 books on my read list so far, and I know that is far from complete but it is a start.

[Joykins]

I use the Visual Bookshelf application on facebook, but I don't get on enough to log everything. Sometimes I read 4-5 books in between getting on, and that application (don't know about goodreads) doesn't have a good way of distinguishing "I just read something since the last time I logged on" and "I read something 3 years ago."

Well, Goodreads does allow you to enter the date you read a book and it allows you to organize the books by several different categories, to include "date read". That is how mine are listed, with the most recently read at top, which happens to be Old Man's War, and the oldest at the bottom, which happens to be The Little Engine That Could. Yes. I am thorough. :)


Ooh, I'm reading _Old Man's War_ now too!

I need to check out goodreads, but I'm probably subconsciously resisting double-entering books.