Is anyone utilizing a social technology
to track their reading material?
About 18 months ago I purchased a MP3 player. Our library system, Alliance of Illinois, has been offering a service called My Media Mall. It has hundreds of books (audiobooks and e-books) and videos, that are downloadable free of charge to a personal computer. Once downloaded, most of the books may be burned to a CD or transferred to a portable digital MP3 device (not iPod).
I am hooked on this format. I "read" books while riding or waiting in the car, gardening, vacuuming, cooking, or loading the dishwasher. It is great! I have discovered new authors. I read so many titles that I mistakenly began to select books that I had previously read. This was done accidently--not by choice. I needed a method to track the titles previously read.
I began entering titles on an Excel worksheet. This became too cumbersome. Since that attempt, I have tried entering titles in Library Thing (LT) and WorldCat's (WCat) personalized lists. After using both, I have determined that LT is better suited for my needs. There are options in WCat that are certainly attractive (when searching you are notified if the title is held locally in your own Library) but for ease of use, I will remain with LT.
It would be interesting to read comments from other avid readers. Am I the only reader that wishes they had a record of all the books read in their lifetime? If you laugh, you must not work in a Library. Please enter comments or try our Chat feature. I will attempt to reply as soon as possible. Thanks and happy reading, or in my case, happy listening!
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