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Book Networking
Amongst all the rest of social networking sites, to which I am moderately reluctant, we can even network thru books online.
What I am talking about is not new, as Shelfari exists already over a year, but I was out for the last year;) so it is new to me. Shelfari enables us to make our private online library with all the books we own, the books we want to own and the books we are reading. We can network thru these book lists with friends we invite or with other people profiling in Shelfari (depend of a level of a privacy we set).
I had a bit of a fun this afternoon and started to put the books I own on my virtual shelfs. Every book has a number and it tells how many other Shelfari readers chose that book to put on one of their lists. Even more, one click on that number shows all other readers of the book. You can then leave them a note. It is an amusing task this shelf business, I must admit. Tho I will not use it for networking. However, I am sure it will be useful to keep the record of all the book I want to buy and also a very nice image-like way of going thru the books I own. It suits nicely to my EndNote library.
P.S.
Speaking of books (and because I was absent and didn’t share this yet), I have to say that this year my best book buy was at AAPOR conference in Los Angeles in May. Wow, what a book selling system;). There was a great discount to start with, then after a while they reduced all the books to a half price (had I known that from the beginning!!) and finally, all the books without prices on them were sold for 10$. I got the Handbook of Ethnography this way, YAY!
So I bought a great amount of books and was seriously concerned with how to get them to the beautiful Slovenia. I managed to pack them all up but the luggage was heavy as hell. Luckily, my luggage got lost (first time and it transpired just the right time) so I got it delivered straight to my door;)))). I looove books!
By Nana | October 30, 2007 | Topics: Academic books, Books |
November 1st, 2007 at 12:30 pm
helooo! it’s nice to read you again :). shelfari…seems to be a great idea. i always like to get book recommendations to lead my quest for new authors. so i definitely have to try it. however i guess i should review my library first (and maybe get a bar code reader ;)). but i’m too far away from it and besides terribly busy at the moment. i guess i’ll try it next week tho…;).