Week 11-Library Thing

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/lukewarmsoda To the left is my bookshelf for Library Thing. I really enjoyed this exercise. I know we were suppose to add at least five, but I just kept adding books. I liked the fact that you can change the view of your bookshelf to a cover view. Also the fact that you can go to the authors pages and see what else they have available. There are even links to their home pages. I also like the fact that it shows stats on where you found the book if it was through Amazon.com or Library of Congress. There is also a gallery where you can see the authors photos which I thought was cool. I did not really find it difficult to use. Adding books was pretty easy. I guess there are people out there who probably have more of an elaborate setup, but overall it was easy. I think a feature that the library could use, is showing what other patrons think of the book. With LibraryThing you can see what other members think of the book. I think this would be a good feature in the library catalog. Also I think maybe allowing the ability to create a club for the book would be a great idea to put in the catalog as well. You can interact with other people who read the book and see what their ideas and feelings are about it. I think posting the rating for the book among readers would be also be a good idea. Not just by its number of sales, but by also how much its been read and discussed about. Like I said in the beginning I really had fun with this one. I mean even the name is funny too.