Okay, so I’m not nearly organized enough to catalog every book I’ve read or would recommend to others. But thanks to those book lovers who do take the time to put their library into LibraryThing, there’s now a great way to find out what other people have read and liked and would recommend. (Yes, Amazon reviews have been providing this kind of functionality for a long time, but this is different.) In the Book Suggestions area, you can type in a title of something you’ve recently enjoyed and generate a whole list of other books you might like. Liked The Boyfriend List? Try Prom. Liked American Born Chinese? Check out The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. And if you find someone whose taste seems to match your own, check out their whole library in Zeitgeist or Groups. And so on. Albteenlib says check it out.
Why I Love LibraryThing
Saturday, September 15, 2007 by kidsbookblogger
Hey, thanks for the great review! I found your blog using a google blog search, and I hope you don’t mind if I use this post on LT’s buzz page. (with all due credit, of course.)
If you do object, just email me, and I will whisk it right off there.
Thanks again for writing about LibraryThing – we appreciate it!
– LN