I have recently become a user of LibraryThing. As a fairly heavy reader, I’ve found it one of the most useful social applications I’ve tried.
While it takes a while to enter your books (I’d estimate I’ve only done 10% of my collection) it is already showing me useful recomendations for books I haven’t read.
Interestingly, the basic application is really just a metadata repository. The software then extracts social infomation from the users who have added the book, including recommendations based on ownership patterns and tagging.
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Yeah,
It’s a nice one isn’t it? And the idea of what yu read is going to lead yu to a community who think the same same way is enticing. But if yo take melvil dewey’s perspective, back in (say) 1865 and want to come up with a taxonomy which is useful, then in the end you up saying, “so what is all this information for? to what purpose will it be put?
And then it dawns on you, if the communities don’t communicate, nothing happens.
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