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Even book lovers get their own social networking sites. iLibrarian recently compiled a list of the top 10 websites for book lovers. These sites allow readers worldwide to be active in book groups, get free books, and even keep track of what their friends are reading. I'll confess, even though I'm totally addicted to Goodreads, I hadn't heard of most of these sites.
1. Booksprouts- This is an online community for book clubs.
2. Blippr- Think Twitter for books. All reviews are less than 160 characters.
3. 22books- Users upload their booklists to share. This is a great resource if you're trying to figure out what to read next.
4. Book Cover Archive- This site is a collection of over 1,000 book covers categorized and browsable by designers, authors, titles,and illustrators.
5. BookJetty- Allows you to search for titles on Amazon and on many library catalogs at once.
6. Book Glutton- This social community lets you read public domain books and discuss them with groups.
7. Gurulib- Organize your book, movie, music, game, and software collections and even loan them out. Members can track borrowed titles.
8. Listal- Another social cataloging website that enables members to catalog books, movies, TV shows, video games, DVDs, and music and loan their items,
9. Goodreads- This is one of the most popular social cataloging sites. Members can create lists, write reviews, form groups, create trivia questions about titles, and converse in forums.
10. PaperBack Swap- Forget used bookstores. You can your paperbacks, hardbacks, audiobooks, and textbooks with others. The site provides exact postage labels which can be printed out. Once a book is mailed, you can request one for yourself from the cache of over 3 million titles available.
Sound off: Do you use any of these sites? Do you use another? What is your favorite?
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