http://www.librarything.com/catalog/sjsmith8670
library thing reminds me of a more down-to-earth version of novelist. i think the word i might be thinking of is community, which makes me think of wiki. there's the human factor, whereas
i also found it incredibly deep, again for lack of a better word. the fact that it links to loc and amazon allows it to provide such a wide variety of information on titles... it had all sorts of editions, versions, publishers, etc. for just the little bit of information i entered for all of my titles.
instead of just one set of tags, you get tags from users all over the world. and these people are not just librarians or catalogers - which is a good thing!
you can see what other people who have enjoyed your favorite titles have also read. this more "humanistic" way of suggesting items is more user-friendly. sometimes you just want to find a book that has nothing to do with the book you just read, you just want the language and the story to be "right." if you found someone with similar tastes, you'd be able to find a book that just seemed "right," without having to type in endless keywords and then get back a set of titles from 2001 and 1999 that you would have to wait 3 weeks to get through interlibrary loan.
this is wordy, and it doesn't completely explain my feelings, but hopefully you get the idea. it's friday and has been a long week, give me a break ;)
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I really like Library Thing. Of course, all the books I've recorded have been ones that I've read in various book groups. When I try to find people with similar reading tastes, all I get is other book group people with those typical book group titles.
One of these days I'll find time to record all the other stuf I've rad over the years. Maybe then I'll get better resuls from searches like that.
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