I discovered a newsite for book lovers called The Library Thing, how to describe it, remove the shopping function of Amazon but keep the review platform, then integrate it with Flickr's tag function and allow people to join "Groups". Thus I have spent sometime trying to add the books I have read in the last 5-6 years to "My Library" and have a tag cloud for books that I have read:
Once I have done that, the site were able to recommend new books for me to read, tell me other users who shares similar reading interest, thus I can browse their library. The thing that I enjoyed the most was being able to see the front cover of the books lined up on the screen, especially on some of the topics that I enjoyed the most, like:
Mountaineering & Adventure
History
After looking at them again, I had the impulse to buy another mountain literature, just put in an order on The Villain: the Life of Don Whillans by Jim Perrin. It shared the 2006 Boardman Tasker Award.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
The Library Thing
Posted by Gabs Lau at 1:20 PM
Labels: Literature
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7 comments:
good job, i will start one right away, excellent find, sir.
yeah, don whillan is my hero!
In to thin air is by far one of my favorite book
yeah, I think that was my first mountaineering book as well!
Hey what happened, someone just hacked into my account in Library Thing and added lots of mountaineering books to it. I can't read all that!
yeah I would have guessed it was you, ahdont
i didn't do anything, i just thought it was funny
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