Apr 28 2008
Thing 15
Am I nosey or simply curious? Maybe more of one than the other, but either way I love to see what is on other people’s bookshelves. “Mind if I look over your bookshelves?” is a question I commonly ask when I feel comfortable enough to ask in the homes of friend, colleagues, and family members. Of course, I would never peruse the shelves in depth without asking first. LibraryThing allows me to do some that that perusing without leaving my computer. I always want to know if someone has read a new book that I need to read. Is there a new author whose thoughts would touch my heart? I just like to know. Several of the feeds in my RSS reader have to do with new authors/new books.
I did find one down side to LibraryThing, or perhaps I just have not played enough yet to figure out how to do this. Either way—-when I find a author I really like, I tend to get all of their books. I would like to add several books by the same author in one click on LibraryThing, but I do not see a way to do that. That one step alone would save me bunches of time in getting my personal stock of books catalogued into LibraryThing.
A very practical use of LibraryThing in my media center would be to get students to create their own LibraryThing. Remember a previous post about a certain young man who has become the King of Book Recommendation at my school? I can think of several kids at our school who would love to sneak into his home to examine the bookshelves. Students willing to share their own personal titles could be an encouragement to other reluctant readers to give titles they would not ordinarily consider a try.
Well, I am going to explore your bookshelves now. Got anything good you would recommend for me to read?
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