What is Reddit's opinion of Shelfari?

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I really like Shelfari It is similar to the already mentioned goodreads, but there are a few things I like better.

• There isn't a bunch of extra stuff. Less adds, no quizzes, or trivia or any of that junk. Its just the books.
• Their keyword system has helped me find some pretty amazing books. Stuff like "books about people who love books", and "gothic mysteries".
  
• It is linked with amazon, which comes in really handy when you are looking for classics or books that are a few years old. They have the current and used price listed right on the page of the book, so when I see a Used price thats $.01 I get really really excited. You just click and buy!
• The way they organize the info page for each book makes it easy to decide if I want to read it or not. They list characters, places, and I love the Quotes section.
• They have a social networking system in place, which doesn't do a whole lot for me because none of my friends read, but this might help you get even better recommendations.
• There rating system has thus far proved pretty accurate for me. The best sellers are usually rated high (Twilight, Hunger games, etc) and the young adult section is kinda tricky to navigate because the teeny boppers get on there and rate everything 5stars! OMG BEST BOOK EVER!!! slightly annoying, but other than that, it has served me well.

Edit: formatting

Ya que estamos en eso de los libros, alguien más tiene shelfari o goodreads?

En los cerca de 14 años que tengo leyendo libros, he leído cerca de 160. Casi todos novelas pero alguno que otro de divulgación científica, aparte de leer bastantes articulos que veo de reddit :D

EDIT: Mi cuenta de shelfari, por si alguien quiere un libro prestado. [](/freddie)

Since Goodreads has already been recommended, I'll mention Shelfari and AllConsuming.

They more or less have the same features but I think Goodreads is probably the most popular site.

Best guess is probably a nuclear winter.

To quote "samatha f." on http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10406/discussions/61444/Trying-to-figure-out-what-really-happened-to-Earth-in-the-novel-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter

McCarthy makes subtle reference to what happens on page 28 (hardcover edition):

"People sitting on the sidewalk in the dawn half immolate and smoking in their clothes.....within a year there were fires on the ridges and deranged chanting.....What had they done? He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it."

And on page 45:

"The clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions.

Also on Page 45, we learn that animals died off gradually: "....he'd wakened in a barren wood and lay listening to flocks of migratory birds......He wished them godspeed till they were gone. He never heard them again."

And page 50, not long before the boy is born:

"They sat at the window and ate in their robes by candle light a midnight supper and watched distant cities burn."

Shelfari, Goodreads

Some people keep reading logs/journals. I can see this way being a good way to try and truly understand a book and a way to remember if a discussion ever arises. I might need to look into doing it myself.

I'll admit my post left out a crucial word: today. You'll have a hard time finding anyone today praising her.

The sources on that quote are also a little shaky. There's Solanas's own publications (and who would ever inflate their own importance for their own benefit in their own writing?) and this memoir from a lady who published the book in 1976 and died eight years ago.

Shelfari is my personal favourite. It lets you have a little personal bookcase with books you've read, are reading and plan to read. There is also goodreads I haven't actually used it, but have heard it's good.

If you want to use The Cloud, you could try out GoodReads or Shelfari. Both let you put books on multiple "shelves" (tag them). Both take input via title or ISBN (or get lists by author to add multiple books in a series) and yank the rest of the info from the web. They are "social sites" in that you can also write reviews of books you've read, join discussion groups on individual books or more general topics, keep track of your friends' reading, etc.

It's basically the next step after the built in dictionary. It sources data from Shelfari (owned by amazon, natch) which is sort of like a wiki/sparknotes/librarything kinda site. If you "xray" a character, it tells you basic info and description of the character. You can do the same for events whether real or not. If it's a real event it pulls data from wikipedia. The relevant wiki pages re downloaded with the book, so you don't need an internet connection to view them.

check out this demo video from when the new Kindles were announced.

La saga de Fundación de Asimov - Me inició en el Sci-fi

The Stand de Stephen King - Muy buen libro sobre la naturaleza humana

The Multi-Orgasmic Man: Sexual Secrets Every Man Should Know - Todo hombre debería leer ésto para no fallarle a sus mujeres.

Generalmente leo Sci-fi y fantasía, ahora estoy leyendo A Song of Fire and Ice, voy en el tercer libro, me gustó mucho la serie de Game of Thrones por eso le entré.

Aqui los libros que he leído

I suggest giving the iron druid chronicles a try:

www.shelfari.com/series/The-Iron-Druid-Chronicles

I also recommend the following: * The nekropolis series * The Remy Chandler series

and these already mentioned ones: * Nightside * Sandman Slim

My shelfari: http://www.shelfari.com/mensaap/shelf

Cant believe I didn't think of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. Lead role is a female. William Gibson is a legend and this is one of his better books.

I'm new to /r/fantasy, so I don't know if you've attempted these before, but here are two ideas:

1. A fantasy book club.

2. A Goodreads or Shelfari group.

Honestly I'm cribbing both of these from the early days of 4chan's /lit/. When /lit/ first started, they created a group on Goodreads, which is a social networking site for readers. The group then chose a book to read 'together,' handing out a .pdf of the book and assigning a few chapters each week. Every week they'd post a weekly review on their Goodreads page where members would discuss what happened in the chapter, their thoughts, etc.

/r/fantasy wouldn't need a Goodreads (though it's still a good idea, I think, for socializing purposes) to do a book club, though. You or a mod you assign could pick books and post weekly chapter review threads for members to discuss. I'm sure there's a book club on reddit, but I don't see one on /r/fantasy. Just throwing it out there.

I've used both, and Library Thing is so skeletal and helter-skelter, like the bones of some creature that could be great. Goodreads, on the other hand, is one fully fleshed out beast.

You can get stats on total pages read, books by year, by date, by reading progress within individual books, which you can graph. You can see how many books you've read compared to your friends this year; what genres you've read the most. There are thousands of lists you can vote on, and quizzes for geeking-out.

7 million people use Goodreads, from over a hundred countries. Top reviewers, best rated reviewers, top readers, etc, are ranked by country and region and all that jazz.

Reviews are upvoted (although you can't downvote), and the social aspect is pretty nice, since you can comment on crap that your friends are doing. And give em a ಠ_ಠ if their opinion diverges from yours.

Also, each time you visit a book, the reviews are sorted by your friends first, and then whatever is top voted. There are usually half decent discussions, and Goodreads can be fun to troll. Ahem, not that I would or anything. I'm just saying. You can post images directly in comments, so... that's always fun.

Plus, we have a reddit group with 500 redditors. This is me.

I also have a Shelfari account, which is only good for the eye-candy of looking at your shelf.

I LOVE the stats on shelfari!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You know what else? each section of the stats is a live link, like they pull all theun-rated, or un-dated books, or the 2011 books, or the sci-fi, or all the 5 star books of yours all onto a page...just click a section of a graph and go to the list. ..................................... Shelfari Tracks:

Reading Stats Page http://www.shelfari.com/o1515602399/stats

Rating *[Pie Chart to see your books rated vs not rated] *[Bar Graph to show 1 star, 2 stars,3 stars, 4 stars, 5 stars]

Pie chart (click)to see and rate books without ratings or bar graph (click)to see books with the given rating (in a list)

You’ve rated ___ books (%) and have read ___ books not yet rated. Your average rating is ___.__. The community's average rating is 3.9994.

By Date Read *[Bar graph for annual read totals] *[Pie chart for no date read vs date read] Click within the bar graph to see books read in a given year, or click here to see all books with date read entered. Click the pie chart to see books without dates read.

You’ve entered dates read for _____ books (%) and have read __ without entering the date read. You’ve read __ books this year. Last year you read ___ books. You’ve read ______ books overall.

*By Subject [bar graph of books in each of a bunch of subjects]

*Estimated Pages Read [Mountain graph showing the range of pages per annum]

Great suggestion, thank you.

Curious if you (or anyone else out there) has any experience or knowledge of Shelfari? I have a Shelfari account that I'm developing. From what I understand, your comments and books show up on Shelfari and Amazon.

Thoughts and/or suggestions about using Shelfari? The fact it interfaces with Amazon, I imagine, could be a huge plus, though I don't know how much.

Here's a link to my book at B&N

I also have a shelfari page with dream book recommendations.

My book is good for what you want to accomplish with your dad because it's written for laymen. Another good one is Ann Faraday's The Dream Game and Dream Power. I really like The Dream Game. It's longer and gets a bit more psychological, but is still pretty easy to read.

I hope you're able to get this working, but if you don't, keep in mind the feature isn't that great. It has potential, but the data that drives it is really bad in many caes. It's not at all like someone is creating x-ray content guides for these books, it just mines whatever data happens to be on http://www.shelfari.com/. So don't be too down about it if it doesn't work out.

Literally the only record of that name I can find on the internet is a fictional character. Is there someone else by that name (which is not mine, for the record)?

You could try joining shelfari.com and register your books and such and look for recommendations. (My account, if you want to see what a profile would look like)

Otherwise, Amazon recommends them, friends, family etc.

I use Shelfari, but if I didn't already have years of what I've read and every book anyone has recommended to me for two years in it, I would use GoodReads because authors do and you can friend them and see what they're reading. It would be kind of a pain in the ass to switch.

If any redditors are on shelfari, though, feel free to friend me! I have so few friends, I pretty much only use it for tracking what I read.

http://www.shelfari.com/jon_s

Nice Shelf. Here's Mine.

I see you've read some Jim Butcher. I haven't but have heard good things. How would you classify his books and where would you recommend someone start with his work?

I started using Shelfari just over a year ago. I like how you can view your virtual shelf on it. Here is the link, also here is a link to my shelf

Anyone having trouble migrating? Maybe consider a shelfari user created tool?

http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10000/discussions/535342/SUCCESS-a-script-to-convert-library-csv-into-GR-friendly-csv-for

So X-Ray pulls it's info from shelfari.com, which has a user-generated wiki section. Go over to the relevant book, and you can edit it to include more info.

If you like to read, I'd recommend Shelfari. It's a website where you can rate, review, and discuss books. You can also list all the books that you've read, are currently reading, or plan to read. It's a great place to find new recommendations. Since the website was created by Amazon, if you have an account there you don't need to make a new one for Shelfari.

Used to use Shelfari for everything until Amazon acquired it and is now slowly letting it die in order to push the inferior (read: less information but more social network integration) Goodreads.

Nowadays, I'm using Libib. While it's not quite there yet, the staff is highly motivated and constantly tweaking things. As soon as proper ebook support and the timeline feature arrive it will have everything I want. The mobile app (Android/iOS) also helps.

Back in the old days I tried to keep track of the books via Excel sheets. Now that was messy and unsatisfying. Anyways, I simply can't even imagine how to go about that task by means of a book journal. I was never really satisfied with the information I added to the spreadsheets and I was constantly adding/removing/changing columns.

It's been my pleasure. My shelfari page has quite a few recommended books about dreams, if you feel like going further with the subject. If there's something specific you want to read about, give me a shout and I can point you in the right direction. I've been studying this subject for longer than most reddit users have been alive ;)

I picked up the Farseer trilogy by chance on my Kindle and allthough things are slowing down A LOT in the second book, I'm quite enjoying it. Care to explain what the sequel trilogy is? I really found no mention of it and the closest I found was: http://www.shelfari.com/series/Realm-Of-The-Elderlings

As /u/dedennenne suggests, going to another therapist may be a helpful.

Some other thought that just went through my mind: You say that you feel invisible, that nobody notices your presence, that you get no messages, that people don't respond.

Maybe Facebook is just not the right place to share stuff. Maybe you need another community. E.g. if you like taking photos, go to flickr.com, if you like arts, maybe www.deviantart.com, if it's about litterature, maybe http://www.shelfari.com/. Just an idea.

If you tell us a bit more about yourself, what you do, what you like etc, we may indeed make better suggestions.

¡Muchas Gracias! (nótese que uso el signo de exclamación que abre)

Eres mi nuevo amigo gramático y te agradezco tu ayuda, tomé casi todas tus sugerencias y aqui está como quedó.

Cualquier cosa que necesites dentro de mis posibilidades (libros, juegos de steam, etc.) es tuya.

¿Tu le haces a eso de escribir bien por mero hobby o eres "profesional"? Porque pocas veces he visto alguien que escriba mejor que yo :D

I've found the best groups to be small and super specific, but here are a couple of my favorite, larger groups:

Women Speak *note: women's only space Good Reads The New Classics: 100 Best Reads from 1993 to 2008

It should be noted that when I was going through all this, I realized that my best discussions on Shelfari came from directly messaging people who made interesting points in the larger discussion, then carrying on our own conversation one-on-one or in a small group.

For me it has always been Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian. His other books are magnificent as well and show China from a very different (uncensored) perspective. He has since fled in exile to England, but continues to write excellent books (except they are no so travel oriented as Red Dust) that are in tune with modern China. If you have not read his stuff I urge to try.

Well, here is a link to my Shelfari profile, you should be able to see my bookshelf from it. http://www.shelfari.com/o1514982234

I recommend Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series for fantasy.

Stuart Woods Holly Barker series or Stone Barrington series for detective/drama novels (with some spicy love stuff too)

Dean Koontz spins a pretty good horror novel, my favorites are "Seize the Night" and "Lightning"

James Patterson's "Sail" is a murder mystery that is so awesome your head may spin.

Currently reading, this.

It describes a mid-20 year old Canadian, dropping it all and heading to teach in Bhutan, opening her eyes. Quite enjoyable read.

If you're looking for a 'good' book, you can't possibly go wrong with The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. It was up for the 2010 manbooker, and is one of my all time favorites.

I put 'good' in quotation marks because there are some books, like say, Brothers Karamazov, that are spectacular, but are difficult and maybe not as easy to glide through.

When I some times just want some thing to suck me into another world, and to really show me some thing new, I cant help but think of this book.

I set myself two goals for this year: 120 books overall, and 20 non-fiction books. So far, I'm at 81 books total, 12 non-fiction. I haven't used Goodreads, but I use Shelfari to keep track.

I've never heard of Shelfari. Does it suggest new books for you based off of your previous reads? (And are they GOOD suggestions and not just "Here's a bunch of books by the same author/here's a list of our 50 most popular books"?)

(Just made a profile and am playing around with it. http://www.shelfari.com/quarkity)

• Academy X by Andrew S. Trees
• Servant of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts
• Do Not Disturb edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel

I started with GoodReads and switched to Shelfari because I like the appearance of a real book shelf.

Here's my shelf:

http://www.shelfari.com/o1514358309/shelf

I don't really use many features of the site. I just use it to keep track of what I've read and what I have on-deck.