Shelfari update

When looking at A Dog's Life, a blog inclined to appeal to Sissi, I saw a lovely bookshelf for Shelfari books, and acted straight away....
I have joined Shelfari before, through Facebook, so all it took was linking a new Shelfari account to my Facebook application (which I haven't really enjoyed, or certainly not as much as Visual Bookshelf - see below), and now I have a lovely wooden shelf with a few books on it in my side panel ... Very nice. I like the "Reader's Advisory" aspect, with the editorial reviews, 'cos I don't often feel inclined to comment on my books.
I must admit that Visual Bookshelf imports whatever I put on LibraryThing straight away, while Shefari just seemed to be having a bad day, so VB remains the favourite for now, for both display and ease of manipulation. Give it a go and have fun!

Week 7 or Thing 17...!

Bebo, Myspace, Facebook.... I have a Facebook page, since about January this year. With about 28 friends. I belong to seven groups. I have a Scrabulous application and I still can't decide between Shelfari and Visual Bookshelf.... It's one good way of keeping up with the diaspora of Zimbabweans, and relatives who don't send Christmas cards or emails. I don't think I want to use it for anything else.
However it looks really good, being used by a library... Certainly a way of communicating that would appeal to many young people out there. Just think of the Learn.net usage after school! As mentioned before, I approve of both Hennipin County Library on Facebook and Auckland City Libraries on Bebo. I looked for other library users on Facebook, and came up with a few! There's a Library 2.0 Interest group on Facebook with over 6000 members, just in case you'ld like to subscribe to yet another discussion board or site... and plenty more groups out there with similar interests.

Bookshelf below!

Now this was fun... partly because I found LibraryThing frustrating because it was so s..l..o..w... (I have just been there again and it said it's experiencing overload... I am not surprised.)
But, I belong to Facebook, and I have tried out two bookshelf applications. I like Visual Bookshelf... and look! I can enter the books I have read there, on Facebook, and they update to a window in my dear old Blog! I don't have to everything twice...
And to enter them on Visual Bookshelf I just have to paste in the title from an exported version of my reading history, and click on a cover that matches the one I read, mark it already read... I can then go to a list of my books and rate them if I wish....
So that was a relief.
Mind you, if LibraryThing gets a little easier to manage, I can import books from it into Visual Bookshelf...
and then - after all of that, I found an [old] blog called The Official Lair of Daniela. There are posts to this comment of course, with more comparisons... so have fun if you have the time...