Someone from class just recommended GoodReads and invited others to join and share reading lists over this (rapidly-expiring) winter break. As much as I'd like to join in the fun, I've already taken my sister up on her invitation to join Shelfari - in spite of the fact that I was psyching myself up to LibraryThing.
How to choose?
By friends? Ideally, my online "book circle" would include my sister and my classmates and expand from there. Is there a solution to the conflicting sites that I don't know about? Blogging seems to transcend this obstacle, but not other social networking apps. I know people who have multiple, topic-specific blogs, or pages on both MySpace and Facebook, for example. But multiple bookshelves would be way too much work.
By features? I couldn't find a good, recent article comparing features. The best I could do was this 2006 blog article comparing Shelfari, LibraryThing and Gurulib (oh, great, there's another one to consider). And what about aNobii? Saw that one mentioned on Wikipedia under social cataloging.
By popularity? Is there a front runner among social cataloging sites? Shelfari and LibraryThing seem to stand out in my awareness.
By reputation? Is membership in one of these sites more becoming of a future librarian than the others? Is one more literary? (Or less so, if, say, one wanted to share a secret passion for romance paperbacks or cozies?) Or is one more hip, as in a Mac vs PC, "us and them" sort of thing?
Which site do you use? Why?
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