LibraryThing
I’ve only recently discovered LibraryThing. It’s a website where you build a library of books you own (or have read), rate them and then receive useful recommendations based on what others with similar tastes like.
It’s noice and I loike it. I loike it a lot.
Tags: books, librarything, reading, recommendations
arrogant>>> My library is too big for me to bother!
quasi-humble>>> And it would create the false impression that I’ve actually read them all!
Ha!
Well you can put in the ones you particularly like and it’ll give you recommendations based on those.
Damian, have you read GEB?
This GEB? No, never heard of it. Recommended?
Did you pay for it or did you register less than 200 books? I have quite a few more than 200 books so I am reluctant to pay just to show off
It might be useful if it automatically generates APA references or endnote entries though…
Ian, I’m only using the free account and have only entered ~150 books and don’t see much need to enter too many more as I have a lot of crap that probably won’t be particularly useful. And I don’t even know what an APA reference is.
Ian, on endnote stuff, have you seen Zotero? It’s a Firefox extension that compiles book, journal article, website, etc., etc. info and compiles it for footnotes/bibliography for essays/assignments, etc. You can also download a plug-in that integrates it with your word-processor client, so you can add footnotes/bibliography from there. Very cool
GEB: Godel, Escher, Bach – an Eternal Golden Braid. Douglas Hofstadter.
The most insanely mindblowing book I have ever read, and I didn’t even understand all of it.
I have seen Zotero but I am a heathen who uses IE8 rather than firefox
IE8!!! nooooooo!!!
Just you wait… when you die and find yourself in Microsoft Heaven 4.0 you’ll be sorry!
Simon, I’ll have to look out for that. Have you ever read House of Leaves? It’s probably not mindblowing in the way GEB is but it’s the most seriously complex and fucked up book I’ve ever read.
Ian, REPENT!
will look up.