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Quote of the Day

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself. ~ C. S. Lewis

2.16.2012

Library Thing

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 comment:

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