Goodreads Galore

Just under one month from now will be my two year anniversary with Goodreads. After an invite from a fellow book lover, I joined the site and wasn't quite into it at first, but that all changed when I discovered the necessary ingredient: more than one friend. The site is now approaching its 5th birthday and is the book-lover equivalent to Facebook (it's "Facebook for books"). So when I was only sharing the books I was reading with one other person, it wasn't as exciting as it could have been. You might say it was only one sixth of the fun it is now.

So not only am I now updated about what my friends are currently reading, I can see what ratings they give to books while keeping track of my own little reading records. I could easily have made a notebook into a journal to keep track of what I read and my thoughts, but how much fun is that when I can share it online with my friends? Plus, Goodreads has recently been giving away books as preview releases and I was the lucky winner of FOUR books. How unfortunate that they all arrived right as my semester started. But nonetheless, they're added to my reading list and are waiting patiently for me to pick them up in my spare time.

In this time when our society turns to the internet for everything, why not bring books with us into that realm? Whether we are reading the hard copies that we own, rentals from libraries, or electronic copies on Nooks or Kindles, we're still reading and Goodreads reflects that.