Wednesday, May 15

Today I had great fun exploring Goodreads.  The site is very easy to navigate through, and I wasted no time adding 21 of my favorite books, rating them all and reviewing a few.  On Listopia I searched for books about characters who juggle, and found a list with one book on it.  I added another to it, and marked the original one as "to be read."   Then, I put the Goodreads RSS feed on the front page of my feed aggregator, Netvibes, so I can see what is trending right away when I log onto my list of feeds every day.  14 new stories trended today.  (Note to Goodreads Webmaster: put the general RSS icon prominently on the first page so those inclined can find it quickly and add the stream to our feed reader of choice....)  Then I added some friends from Gmail and made some recommendations.

The suggestions of titles in the genres I checked off were accurate, especially in the ones where the setting was prominent.  Many books appeared in more than one genre.

Since our PAC links to Goodreads I have always been curious about it and have explored it before, but never signed up, preferring to use The Library Thing  www.librarything.com instead.