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10 Websites for Book Lovers
At this point most everyone has heard of LibraryThing, the most popular social cataloging website online, and perhaps even of the Amazon-owned Shelfari, but here are a few websites for book lovers that you may not have heard about:
- BookSprouts
- Blippr
- 22 Books
- Book Cover Archive
- BookJetty
- Book Glutton
- Gurulib
- Listal
- GoodReads
- Paperback Swap
BookSprouts is a website where you can join and create book clubs. Members can vote on which book to read next, have book discussions in forums, post book reviews, and hold meetings.
Blippr is a website where you can add short reviews of 160 characters or less of books, movies, music, games, and applications. You can connect your account to many other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook where you can continue your conversations.
22books will allow you to quickly create book lists of any type. You can make comments on books in your list, and embed your lists in other websites.
The Book Cover Archive is a collection of over 1,000 book covers categorized and browsable by designers, authors, titles, art directors, photographers, illustrators, and more. Readers can leave comments on covers and can suggest entries.
BookJetty is a social cataloging app that will let you set up a bookshelf of titles you own or want and then easily search for them in your local library with a click. Amazon and other booklists can be imported for quick startup.
BookGlutton is a social community where you can read public domain books and discuss them with groups. Members can annotate books and make their comments public for discussions or keep them private. You can even upload your own books.
Gurulib is a social cataloging program which lets members organize their book, movie, music, game, and software collections. The site allows members to use their webcams as barcode readers to scan in items. Items be loaned out and members can track borrowed titles.
This social cataloging website enables members to catalog books, movies, TV shows, video games, DVDs, and music. Members can loan their items, import and export their catalogs, and create favorite lists that others can comment on.
GoodReads is a robust social cataloging site in which members can create lists, write reviews, form groups, create trivia questions about titles, and converse in forums.
PaperBack Swap is a community hub for trading your paperbacks, hardbacks, audiobooks, and textbooks with others. Members can easily mail books as the site provides exact postage labels which can be printed out. Once a book is mailed, you can request one for yourself from the cache of over 3 million titles available.
I’m sure there are many more great book-related sites out there, please add your suggestions in the comments!!
March 4th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Thanks for putting together this list! Here are a few more sites you might like:
http://www.librarything.com/
http://www.bookmooch.com/
http://www.fetchbook.info/
March 5th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Thanks for mentioning blippr in this list! We have many more things coming in the near future that will continue to make it *the* place for book lovers.
Sincerely,
CEO of blippr
March 6th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Have you seen Book Crossing? http://www.bookcrossing.com/
March 11th, 2009 at 2:07 am
You’ve missed Bibale, http://www.bibale.com/
March 14th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
A favorite swap site of mine is http://www.mangatude.com. It’s a great way for manga fans to trade.
March 18th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
My favorite is Goodreads. It doesn’t charge me extra if I exceed a certain number of books. I love the trivia questions. I’ve meet many kindred spirits in my areas of reading interest through the various groups. I hardly ever visit Shelfari and Library Thing anymore. Everything I need is on Goodreads.
March 18th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Great list! I would also add Shelfari. Lots of fun there too!
March 25th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
fantastic list, I’m never going to get any work done exploring all these.
April 1st, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Great list.. I really like the last one
When I want to save money on my books, I use http://www.bigwords.com. They have a great selection of books to choose from 
April 7th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Excellent list. I like to use http://www.fantasticfiction.com for my fiction.
April 10th, 2009 at 8:30 am
well shelfari isnt bad too
http://www.shelfari.com
April 21st, 2009 at 2:29 am
And also http://booknode.com
April 26th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Ah, I was waiting for Goodreads to be mentioned, and there it is! Far easier, in my opinion, than LibraryThing – I am a Goodreads addict, though! Also PaperbackSwap – it’s a really well-run system, whereas bookmooch is always a little iffy.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:26 am
I am a fan of Library Thing…and to tell ya the truth, it is really all I have time for. Between that and my blog…and incidental stuff like work and home…my day is full.
May 20th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Does anyone know of or have a list of careers/jobs/ideas for jobs for book lovers?
June 27th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Here is a site I saw on a Frugal Living Blog.
http://www.booksalemanager.com
July 19th, 2009 at 11:05 am
a new, interesting service that tries to deal with information overload is nextfeeds.com. Check out the video on http://www.nextfeeds.com/home/take_a_tour
November 17th, 2009 at 11:14 am
There are also some great sites that list used book sales across the U.S.
http://www.booksalemanager.com
http://www.booksalefinder.com
December 22nd, 2009 at 9:25 am
Anobii is a very usable alternative to Shelfari.It’s also free.
http://www.anobii.com