warning: this post is a mess, and mostly an example of how much of a pain it can be to find the right application

I don’t even know what to call this category of application!! How am I ever going to find the “Last.fm” or “del.icio.us” of reading applications?

I really focused on 3 things
1) how do they let you tag the books (tagging, categorizing, bookshelves)
2) how many people were using it
3) how easy it was for me to add my friends


New sites to review

http://www.goodreads.com/
- traffic? (couldnt tell fight club because of tagging)
- funky taggin
- offers rss feed subscription updates

http://www.bookjetty.com/
- wanted, reading, read
- doesn’t look like too many people on it (5 for fight club)

http://www.allconsuming.net/
- 677 fight club
- I intend to consume this, I am consuming this now, i have consumed this
- not great detail on feedback (wish washy, worth consuming, not worth consuming)
- does food

http://www.bookbump.com/

http://reader2.com/

http://www.booktagger.com/
- clunky UI
- can only have book in 1 category at a time
- currently reading, books i want to buy, i have read, i own, i want to read, i have borowed, i have lent

http://www.22books.com/


Old Sites from my first review

http://www.librarything.com/
-simple
- 4,800 for fight club, so getting mass
- tagging

http://www.gurulib.com/
- fast search!
- can create your own shelves


http://lib.rario.us/
- didnt have a “i forgot my password”

http://www.listal.com/
- suprisingly tough to use
- 170 for flight club

http://www.shelfari.com/
-annoying emails
- easy to add books to shelf
- cheesy graphics
- handles classifying books well
- cant review it till you’ve read it
-3,800 fight club

http://squirl.info/