Two comments about goodreads.com that some DRs asked about yesterday.
1.Who are these reviewers and how can I trust what they say?
One interesting aspect of goodreads is that you can have friends/people you have come into contact with in the book universe. When you look at a review of any book first you see your "friends" reviews. So if you have followed that person's blog or whatever you can see what those people think first. Also you can compare books you've both read with one click. So you can see what they've felt about books you've liked or disliked.
2. Why would anyone want to track their books?
Well what if you can't remember if you've read a certain book? Or what if you want to know when your favorite authors books come out? If you read 10 books a year then you might not need to keep track. But if you are like me (or DR Jane) and read 100+ books a year then it is very helpful.
Also I read a lot of series and it really is invaluable to be able to keep track of which books I've read in the series and when each subsequent book comes out.
Especially tracking the series. Goodreads puts a number after each book and has also has a link for each series to click on for all the books.
For a number of years I've been keeping my own list of books & it is much easier on Goodreads, plus if my computer crashes I still have goodreads. It was after Keith accidentally messed up my list that he searched, found goodreads and insisted I put my list there and then was kind enough to transfer 2/3rds of it for me.
I only have a few friends and I know all of them. If I paid for attention to other reviews, as DR Jennifer does, I'm sure I would collect friends with similar tastes in books.
I too, originally, had no interest in tracking books and have found it is fun to do.
