Admit it. The first thing you do when you go to someone's house is to check out their bookshelves.
Now you can do the same thing, virtually, before you go there, or even if you are never invited -- if they have put their collection online at http://www.librarything.com/.
From their home page:
Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. Because everyone else is doing it too, LibraryThing connects you with people who read the same things, and gives you great recommendations.
* Rapidly searches Amazon, the Library of Congress and 45 other world libraries.
* Show it or keep it private. Show your books on your blog too.
* Get recommendations. Connect to people with all your obscure stuff.
* Tag your books as on Del.icio.us and Flickr (eg., wwii, magical realism, vampires, theology, dogs, philosophy of science).
* Export your data. Import from almost anywhere too.
"Both entrancing and evil," says a user.
How can any book lover resist?
Posted by Deck at May 17, 2006 03:55 PM