Well I checked out all the web sites and I decided to go with Shelfari. The set up seemed the easiest, but once I started to get an account it asked for more than say Library Thing whose only requirements where a user name and password. I was surprised when Shelfari asked me not only for my e-mail address but my e-mail account password. Other than that I thought the set up was great. It seems easy to understand and I like the layout. I have to say I wouldn't even be interested with All Readers because it didn't even look warm and inviting. If I am going to stare at a computer I would prefer to look at something attractive.
Good Reads page was kind of like All Readers in that I just don't like to look at it. My main reasons for using these types of web pages would be finding something new to read, keeping a list of books I want to read in the future and keeping track of the books I have read. I wouldn't be at all interested in blogging about what I have read and that was the first thing that popped up, people blogging. A good reads page for Mesa County Libraies might be a good idea but I wouldn't be stoked about contributing. Sorry. I think that if we added good reads then we are offering more resources in a couple different ways but I think that I like our Book Blog better because it's not so cluttered. I like that there isn't as much to distract you with the Mesa County Book Blog. When I look at the Boulder good reads page it just seems like there is so much going on that I wouldn't know where to begin.
My personal opinion is that if there are too many resources then some folks might get overwhelmed and between facebook and book blog MCPLD has all of it's bases covered. I wonder if there is a way to set up a group on the MCPLD facebook account where people can go and talk about books they are reading or have read.
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