80 Online Resources For Book Lovers
Kevin Bondelli’s YD Blog posted “80 Online Resources For Book Lovers”:
Social Networking for Book Lovers
1. LibraryThing is probably my favorite book-related resource on the web. I use it to catalog my personal library, as well as discover new books, find people with similar reading interests, discuss books, and more. Membership is free for a library of up to 200 books, and they offer annual memberships as well as a lifetime membership for a mere $25 (I’m a life member). A paying member can have an unlimited number of books in their library and full functionality of the site. If you are a book lover it is a must. You can visit my LibraryThing profile here.
2. What’s On My Bookshelf is also a book trading site that works on a point system.
3. Listal is a social network based on the things you like, including books, movies, music, etc.
4. Shelfari let’s you create a virtual shelf to share with friends, get recommendations, and all the stuff you expect a book-centric social network to do.
5. Good Reads is another social network for sharing book recommendations with friends.
E-books
6. WikiBooks has open-source/open-content textbooks that anyone can edit. The have over 25,000 modules in their variety of textbooks and serves as a great companion piece to Wikipedia.
7. The Rare Book Room contains photographs and scans of some great and rare books from libraries around the world. Currently there are about 400 complete scans on a variety of subjects, but the Rare Book Room is focused on quality over quantity, so the material they do have is superb.
8. The Poetry Archive is an online collection of recordings of poets reading their own poetry. Listening to the recordings is free of charge.
9. ManyBooks.net contains about 17,000 ebooks for your PDA, iPod, or ebook reader. All of the ebooks are free of cost. They also show PSP and cell-phone friendly ebooks.
Here’s more of the list:
Link via the iLibrarian library blog:
http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/
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