Busy day yesterday, had a few non-work items to take care of and then attended the annual holiday party for work, so my apologizes for not getting a post up.
As I mentioned in the last post I wanted to cover some of the social sites I've found relating to books. I have already mentioned that I like to stay up to date with my library and the libraries of my friends on Goodreads. Another cool thing about Goodreads is that you can join groups based on where you live, authors you like, subject matter, and just about anything else you can think of. Not everyone has the exact same tastes so it's nice that you can join multiple groups based on everything from location to favorite author or style.
A fun site I found about a year ago when researching geocaching is BookCrossing. Don't worry if you don't know what geocaching is, I'm sure I'll obsese about this again soon! (If you'd like to know more about geocaching now a great site is geocaching.com) At BookCrossing you register a book you would like to give away and you release it into the wild. The objective is that someone will find the book where you left it, read it, and leave it somewhere else. That next person registers that they found the book and where they left it, then the cycle starts all over again.
Even a quick search on About.com returns many more social sites for book lovers. If you've used any of these or any other book related sites please let me know in the comments.
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