LibraryThing

ok, so i started a librarything page about 2 years ago and am surprised i remembered my username and password. i remember thinking, 2 years ago, that i would soooo keep this up. i mean, it's a great way to keep a list of everything you read, right? right! well, it's just too much work to keep an online record of everything i read. i have since started a shelfari and goodreads and those, if they were literal bookshelves, are all gathering dust as well.

i'm a simple girl and not into much online blogging or anything of this nature. i keep a notebook with a list of every book i read and a separate notebook with all the children's and ya books i read. so when i'm at work and get asked a reader's advisory question or something of that nature, i take out my notebooks and carry it into the stacks with me to help a person. this has worked for me for 3 years. what i can't do, is take my computer into the stacks and look up librarything when i want to remember a book i read in the past to recommend to someone.

i guess you could use it to keep up with what everyone else is reading, but i just am not really interested. if someone tells me they read a great book, i'll write it on another list of books to read. maybe i have too many lists, but it works for me. i need to see something in front of me, something tangible. i also wouldn't use the tag cloud to find other books or similar books. as a librarian, constantly reading reviews or cataloging, i come across so many books and that is usually how i pick my next read.