On 28/10/2007, Peter Timusk <ptimusk@sympatico.ca> wrote:
You may try librarything.com as well. There seem to be tens of such services on faecbook too. That would make even perhaps a survey study for a library student in internet studies to study these services
membership in librarything.com is free for less than 200 books and life time membership is a suggested 25 US$.
It can search more than just the various amazons including some Canadian and US universities and the Canadian national catalog at our National library just down the street from where I live.. Also the US congress library.
I like the book cover pictures but the pictures die out in the late 1980's with no covers for earlier books.
It's difficult, isn't it, to know which to pick - as there's also Readitswapit ( http://www.readitswapit.co.uk/TheLibrary.aspx ) - UK based book swap site, Book Crossing - www.bookcrossing.com - similar, but international & you leave the book somewhere for a random person to pick up. There's also ConnectViaBooks - ( http://www.connectviabooks.com ) - which I've looked at, though didn't like the amount of information they required from you when you joined (that was about 6 months ago, they might have changed). The difficulty is knowing which to join - should you join the site that had the interface/ way of working you like the best - or the one with the most members? Or the one you know most people on already? Emma -- Emma Duke-Williams: School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator. New URL: Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/