Last night while getting my daily dose of Zenpundit, I came across his recent post recommending a new type of social networking site. It’s fairly similar to flickr but is aimed at serious readers. Thus, one creates his own bookshelf, and then adds friends with whom you can participate in discussions and easily recommend each other new titles.
Like others, I’m not done but my book shelf is here.
Zenpundits shelf is here and Dan’s shelf for tdaxp is here. I can only recommend this to our readers. Its still in beta and therefore there is room for improvement, but my only question is when it’ll be bought out and incorporated into Amazon or Google.
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MountainRunner added these pithy words on Dec 18 06 at 5:45 pmThe new book club: Shelfari
I’ve imagined book clubs as being a monthly meeting to discuss a shared book while drinking wine (or a good beer), enjoying some snacks, and catching up with friends. The modern book club is likely to take the form of Shelfari,...
tdaxp added these pithy words on Dec 22 06 at 4:20 pmSlide Share, The Shelfy for Power Point
“Myspaces for” have been sprouting here and there lately. Mark (and myself, and Coming Anarchy, and Mountainrunner, &c) have talked about shelfy, while Adam of The Metropolis Times has blogged on flixster. The newest entrant into this mix is Slide …
Darin added these pithy words on 18 Dec 06 at 1:31 pmThat sounds so cool. So I went ahead and made an account.
http://www.shelfari.com/Darin/shelf
But it doesn’t seem to support non-American books, and all I have are Japanese ones :(
Charlie added these pithy words on 18 Dec 06 at 4:28 pmOn a related note, for Macintosh users, I have recently discovered a fantastic program for keeping track of my library. It is called Delicious Library, and has a feature by which I can use my Mac camera to scan all of my books in via barcodes (with a hand entry function for the old books). I had always been looking to organize and catalog my library, now a little over a thousand books, but the task of hand-entering them all was a bit daunting.
I don’t know whether it could be used in conjunction with Shelfari….
Chief Wiggum added these pithy words on 18 Dec 06 at 4:35 pmHi Chirol-
I see you have a couple of Niall Ferguson’s books on your shelf, Colossus and Empire. I just finished reading War of the World which discusses the reasons for the incredibly bloody mayhem of the 20th century. The book is well-documented, and I learned a lot. He has new takes on the conventional wisdom. It’s worth looking at.
But be prepared for 654 pages, and another 110 pages of notes.
Chirol added these pithy words on 18 Dec 06 at 4:43 pmChief: Indeed, and many more on my reading list. However, my big overland trip now consumes all my reading. Can’t wait to get around to War of the World!
mark safranski added these pithy words on 18 Dec 06 at 4:50 pm“Its still in beta and therefore there is room for improvement, but my only question is when it’ll be bought out and incorporated into Amazon or Google”
You hit this on the money. I think if we were all really smart we’d be bending our energies toward making some kind of cool app, get bought out and spend the rest of our lives in leisurely scholarship and travel.
I’m trying to add more books each time I sit down at the keyboard.
Tangurena added these pithy words on 18 Dec 06 at 7:10 pmI’ve been using LibraryThing.
My library: http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=Tangurena
Tangurena added these pithy words on 18 Dec 06 at 7:12 pmEep, textile chewed up my link, please remove closing paragraph tag and it should work.
Chirol added these pithy words on 18 Dec 06 at 8:03 pmTangurena: Interesting, looks strangely similar. Hmmm.
von Kaufman-Turkestansky added these pithy words on 18 Dec 06 at 10:13 pmOK, if anyone is interested…
Darin added these pithy words on 19 Dec 06 at 2:36 amCharlie:
You can use Delicious Library with Shelfari. Export your library as a text file (under the file menu) and import it thought the import feature on the ‘add books’ page for your Shelfari. There is actually a note about it on the ‘add books’ page.
Eddie added these pithy words on 19 Dec 06 at 3:58 amLet us hope Curzon & Younghusband eventually join the network….......
James added these pithy words on 19 Dec 06 at 2:01 pmIt looks like a fantastic scheme to get people to buy books through Amazon.com via their referral code.
J.Kende added these pithy words on 20 Dec 06 at 5:08 amVery incomplete: http://www.shelfari.com/Yasha/shelf
J.Kende added these pithy words on 20 Dec 06 at 5:11 amYou hit this on the money. I think if we were all really smart we’d be bending our energies toward making some kind of cool app, get bought out and spend the rest of our lives in leisurely scholarship and travel.
Who says some of us aren’t?
