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2.16.2012

Library Thing

and now Suzanne has something to say about books

I am really liking Library Thing. At first glance it looked like a pointless bit of busy-work, inventorying all the books I read -- even the ones I didn't like. But then I found the Recommendations features. Library Thing will show me other reader's collections with whom I have a lot of books in common. I can virtually browse their shelves and find new books to read. Library Thing will also keep track of books I liked and recommend books that other readers have listed as good pairings.

Nowadays, instead of being chronically short of things to read, I have a long wishlist and have found several new favorite authors.

1 much appreciated comments:

kate said...: Excellent! I never really found shelfari to be helpful. This sounds much better.; February 21, 2012 at 1:45 PM

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Here I chatter about books, parenting, election 2008, recipes, teaching college writing, and the adventures of getting settled in with our two freshly (Fall 06) adopted school-age children from Russia. This blog is chapter two; chapter one is posted at Jamie & Suzanne go to Russia. I live in the City of Subdued Excitement, Cascadia, Land of the Free.

I am the wife of a man I call My Gift from a Generous God. I am mama to two lovely children, Dandy and Chickadee that became ours in September 2006 in a court-room in Siberia. I am the daughter of two people whom I love and admire. One of them, my dad, is a new (Dec 06) paraplegic.

In my previous life (B.C. - before children), I was a college English teacher, specializing in composition and ESL composition.

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