Online Book Communities

Online book communities are great ways to share with others what books like you like, would want to recommend to others, disliked or would want to read in the future. There are several websites that can help sharing what they call "shelves" with other and even rate and include reviews. Such websites are those like GoodReads, LibraryThing, BookLikes and Biblionasium.

GoodReads

The site is the most commonly used site from the four listed. It is also the one I liked the most using than the other. The site itself is very user-friendly and allows users to create different shelves and rate and write reviews for books.

LibraryThing

This site was my second favorite of the four to use. It's a bit plain and it took me a few tries until I figured how to add books but it was fairly easy to use. The site has little to no images and it's mainly just text. You can also rate, review and recommend books and there is a tab for local literary events happening in your area.

BookLikes

This was my least favorite of all sites to use. It took very long to load even after trying on different internet networks and different computers. It took me way too long to figure out how to put books on shelves and how to create shelves as well. The site itself looks very modern since you are able to choose different themes to create a desired look. The site is tailored to look more like a blog than anything else. Like the rest of the websites it allows you to rate and review books.

Biblionasium

This site was very neat and offered different types of accounts for different users such as educator, parent and student. This site is geared for more school children and teachers. It allows teachers to create shelves of books that they recommend the students read and the students from their accounts can write short reviews for them. Very user-friendly for both children and adults. It can also be linked with Follett Destiny.

Which ones have you used? How well did they work for you?

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