Comments on: Shelfari - Flickr for Books

By: tdaxp

tdaxp — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:20:17 +0000

Slide 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 …

By: J.Kende

J.Kende — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:11:14 +0000

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.

Who says some of us aren’t?

By: J.Kende

J.Kende — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:08:53 +0000

Very incomplete: http://www.shelfari.com/Yasha/shelf

By: James

James — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:01:36 +0000

It looks like a fantastic scheme to get people to buy books through Amazon.com via their referral code.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:58:24 +0000

Let us hope Curzon & Younghusband eventually join the network….......

By: Darin

Darin — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:36:22 +0000

Charlie:
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.

By: von Kaufman-Turkestansky

von Kaufman-Turkestansky — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:13:26 +0000

OK, if anyone is interested…

http://www.shelfari.com/vonKaufman/shelf

By: Chirol

Chirol — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:03:32 +0000

Tangurena: Interesting, looks strangely similar. Hmmm.

By: Tangurena

Tangurena — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:12:10 +0000

Eep, textile chewed up my link, please remove closing paragraph tag and it should work.

By: Tangurena

Tangurena — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:10:35 +0000

I’ve been using LibraryThing.

My library: http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=Tangurena

By: MountainRunner

MountainRunner — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:45:22 +0000

The 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,...

By: mark safranski

mark safranski — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:50:25 +0000

“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.

By: Chirol

Chirol — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:43:14 +0000

Chief: 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!

By: Chief Wiggum

Chief Wiggum — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:35:16 +0000

Hi 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.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:28:48 +0000

On 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….

By: Darin

Darin — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:31:13 +0000

That 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 :(