Keeping Track

I explored the Librarything and found it too busy for my taste. I explored Goodreads and decided to use this site. Goodreads is easy to use and easy to keep track of books I have read, am reading now, and want to read. The tracking is uncomplicated and easily accessible. the site searches for your books in amazon and in the site itself, and then the information about the books pops right up.
I think this will be very useful as a Reader's Advisory tool. Sometimes I am helping a patron, know just the book I want to recommend, and my journal book, in which I keep my list of read and to read books, is in the back room in my work bag. It's pretty hard to say "wait please, while I get my journal," which I don't. Having this information online should prove very helpful. The book reviews are good, plus I like the feature that gives you books others are reading or have read like the one you may have written about, like Amazon. The site really doesn't have tags the way some sights do. It uses shelves, and you can edit the shelves and add more if you need them.
I think I will try to keep up adding to this, but I think I will probably start now and not add all the books I have read over the last several years.

I think library systems could use this type of site as a link to their homepage. Patrons could explore what others are reading that are similar to books they like, plus patrons could set up their own page, if they are interested.


If you want, check out my page.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1513519