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Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
October 15 2009 14:35 GMT
#1
So as some of you may know from my posts, I'm a bit of a bibliophile. (Or at least I would be if college weren't such a drain on my time.) Anyways, This past new-years I set a resolution to read more. My 'goal' was to average a book a week for the year, so 52 books total. Goal is in quotation marks in that sentence because even if I fell short of the goal, as long as it got me to read more than I otherwise would have, I had no problem with it.

Shortly after making this resolution, I stumbled upon Library Thing and furthermore a '50 book challenge' group on that site, of other people challenging themselves to read 50 books in a year. I figured 'what the heck' so I joined and started cataloging my personal library as well as joined the 50 book challenge group. It has so far been a good way to keep track of my progress (unless I read 35 books in the next 2.5 months, (not gonna happen) I'm going to fall short of my goal considerably) and to get recommendations for further reading/reviews of books that I might be interested in.

Also, they have this cool 'will I like it' feature that calculates the likelihood of you enjoying a book based on what is in your library and your ratings for books you have read, which has so far been pretty accurate in my experience.

Anyways, just wanted to see if anybody else on TL is familiar with LT and possibly bring it to the attention of those of you that might be interested.

I made a TeamLiquid group so we can all meet-up there if any of you are interested, and if I ever do get around to reviving the TL Book Club I will probably do it at least partially via Library Thing.

So yeah, anybody interested?

Also; be warned, the majority of the user base seems to be middle-aged female librarians, just fyi.

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Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
October 15 2009 14:37 GMT
#2
Also, I doubt it, but if any mod thinks this is advertising or whatnot I won't put up a stink if you close it...unless you are pachi.
Jyvblamo
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada13788 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-15 15:01:43
October 15 2009 14:42 GMT
#3
My friend got me to sign up on LT several months ago, but I haven't really gotten around to using it much. University is such a huge time sink, for the past year I've reading something like 1/10th as much as I did in high school.
qrs
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3637 Posts
October 15 2009 14:48 GMT
#4
Looks like a really interesting site--thanks for advertising it!
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538
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Hungary3932 Posts
October 15 2009 15:20 GMT
#5
Sounds interesting, I signed up, and joined the TL group too.
BW fighting!
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
October 15 2009 15:22 GMT
#6
Yay, now I don't feel so weird being in a group all by myself.
538
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Hungary3932 Posts
October 15 2009 15:40 GMT
#7
And I just noticed you have a Vonnegut sig, we should get along
BW fighting!
mrmin123 *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Korea (South)2971 Posts
October 15 2009 16:34 GMT
#8
Doesn't Library Thing limit the number of books you can have in your library if you're a basic member? I remember running into something like that so I use GoodReads right now...
Translator태양은 묘지위에 붉게 떠오르고 / 한낮에 찌는 더위는 나의 시련 일찌라!
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
October 15 2009 16:37 GMT
#9
Yeah I think they limit it to 100 or something in that neighborhood. I hadn't heard of goodreads, will check it out.
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
October 15 2009 16:39 GMT
#10
it really depends of the kind of book you are reading
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
October 15 2009 16:50 GMT
#11
If they let you do novellas, it'd probably be pretty easy (read: reasonable) to make that goal in a normal working life.

When I read for pleasure, I wait to find a book I really like, and I read it in one session... Unless it's some kind of monster 700 pages... In which case I stay up very late each night plucking away at it.

Right now I pretty much have to read 5 books every 2 weeks for my classes, so I don't have time for pleasure reading. The worst thing is that I am not a consistently fast reader... I can read a blurb really fast, but I have no endurance unless I'm going at a turtle pace. I think it's because I'm critical of everything I read, so I need that time to think and ponder what everything means and what brilliant essay I could write about it... Which even if you can read fast doesn't change how long you need to think about it.

As far as book club... I dunno, maybe if you post about a book I've already read I can give my thoughts Or maybe in the winter for a week if something really interests me. Not the type to get into a routine though.
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
Railxp
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Hong Kong1313 Posts
October 15 2009 17:09 GMT
#12
made an account but using the website is pissing me off. The stupid stuff loads slow and theres no mass tagging or mass adding of books. I wish they would simplify/make the user interface more user friendly.
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Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21242 Posts
October 15 2009 17:45 GMT
#13
Looks like a cool site I'll check it out, thanks for recommendation!
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