Todays society requires us to learn during our whole life and on the leisure side there is so much choice that it hard to find what one is looking for. I therefore recommend to ask people you respect at work and friends on book recommendations. The probability that they have similar professional or private interests is relatively high and it can save you tremendous time in searching for the right content.
With web 2.0 there now also are a lot of new possibilities to be member of communities. I have foudn a few sites where you can administrate your library and share it with people with similar interests:
They claim to be the market leader with the largest community. In terms of functionality it seems to em that they are the most advanced. You can search you books in multiple sources including foreign languages and countries, tagging and categorizing are very convenient and the reviews are very professional. The community is very active and you can even subscribe as an Early Reviewer and win free copies of books. The downside is that you can post only 200 books for free. If you exceed this number you will have to pay 10USD per year or 20USD for lifetime.
2) Shelfari.com
This site belongs to Amazon and has very nice graphical and intuitive user interface. It is fun to move the books on the shelve. You can also tag and categorize books, share libraries in public or with friends and also read and write reviews.
Compared to kibrarything it has less sources for getting the book information. This should be no issue if you mainly read English books but if you have a multiple language library it will be difficult to find all your foreign books. It also does not offer the service to preview books.
3) Goodreads
Goodreads is also a book catalogue website without limitations in the number of free books. It has similar functionality as the other two but is somewhere in between. Less comprehensive than librarything on one hand but less graphical fun than shelfari.
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