Somebody writes “Shelfari The problem with our large bookshelves is that they are buried in our home where only a subset of people can see what we have read. Now with Shelfari you can show off that book collection to your friends and the world!
Shelfari makes it easy to see what your friends are reading and even get and give book recommendations.
Now with Shelfari you can easily connect with new and old friends to talk about the books you are passionate about.”
Update: 01/18 15:25 GMT by B : – Correction: Shelfari is not owned by Amazon.com, they are operated by these people. I mistakenly assumed that they were a part of Amazon as their copyright credits include Amazon.com. I gather that’s just for photos of book jackets, I apologize for my mistake, birdie.
wow! Something new and original from Amazon!
why not just go to LibraryThing? Which seems to do exactly the same thing, but with a larger community, and librarians on staff, and run by active and involved people?
Free site?
Why is Shelfari and LibraryThing free? So that I can tell them all the books I own and like. This tells alot about me and then this information can be sold to marketers.
LibraryThing was acquired by ABE.com so that ABE could find out what people were reading and what people had what books.
I am suprised more librarians don’t quirk an eyebrow when a private organization ask people to dole out a whole bunch of personal information.
Here is a quote direct from the press release ABE put out when they acquired LibraryThing.
“Like AbeBooks, LibraryThing is dedicated to booklovers. The most exciting part of this deal is the unique information LibraryThing generates about books and book-buying habits,” said Hannes Blum, CEO and president of AbeBooks.com. “This data will help people find and buy more books on our site, and we’re going to help LibraryThing by exposing the website to millions of AbeBooks customers.”