They do syndicate their reviews, I assume for a fee. Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to Goodreads becomes available to the public and to GoodReads business partners. Goodreads requires you to grant them a license to use your user-generated content. If I think an author may be offended by what I say, I may just leave the review blank. Personally, I'm not that concerned with the sharing of reviews. ![]() One concern you may have it what are these sites doing with your information and your reviews. Libib gives you the choice to show lots of information about the book or merely the title, with no happy medium. It has a simple color scheme and straightforward graphics and icons. GoodReads has the best looking user interface. It seems to have focused on providing a user interface full of information, rather than good looks. It also shows the least amount of information about the books. The site still shows the book covers sitting on a wood grain bookshelf which was an interesting approach two years ago, but now looks dated. Unfortunately, it looks like Shelfari has been frozen in time. When I first evaluated book sites in 2008, Shelfari had the best visuals. The GoodReads home page shows the updates from your connections front and center.īookish, Readernaut, and Libib have no meaningful community interaction or sharing. GoodReads labels itself as the "social network for readers." So its approach is much more like FaceBook for books than the others. An online community and sharing of your books is a reason to use one of these sites instead of a desktop database. You can also find connections through Facebook and Twitter. Those three allow you to import your contacts to see if anyone you know is also using the site and create a connection with them. Each has lots of forums and groups to narrow the discussions to discrete topics. Goodreads, Shelfari and LibraryThing each have an active community of users sharing information about books. The site also allows you catalog DVDs in addition to books. Libib allows you to have three separate libraries and allows tagging of books. Readernaut has two choices: Reading or Finished. So books by Robert Ellis, the crime novelist, are lumped together with Robert Ellis, the math book writer. I also discovered that Bookish didn't bother to differentiate between authors with the same name. I tried adding Robert Ellis's The Dead Room and it was not part of the catalog. ![]() It does not allow you to add books that are not part of its catalog. To be fair, Bookish is focused on giving you recommendation for books to read. It took me a while to figure out how to add a book to the Books I've Read category. Bookish only has two choices: Books I've Read or Books I Want to Read.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |