has anyone checked out shelfari.com?

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not sure if asking this question is maybe some kind of conflict of interest, or perhaps a breach of forum ethics... ;) i'm not internet-savvy enough to judge..
but a friend showed me how it works and it seems pretty cool: you create your bookshelf (or what you wish was on your bookshelf) and then the site matches you up with other people who have the same books as you. i thought it seemed pretty cool, but i was rather drunk at the time.

― cellardoor (cellardoor), Thursday, 16 November 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

"The problem with our large bookshelves is that they are buried in our home where only a subset of people can see what we have read. Now with Shelfari you can show off that book collection to your friends and the world!"

I don't get why that's a problem. Whenever I see someone describe books in terms that make them out to be accessories, I get a bit put off. (and I say that as someone who has an unfortunate materialistic fondness for them.)

― Øystein, the grumpy goblin (Øystein), Thursday, 16 November 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer LibraryThing myself.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

LibraryThing is way cooler. (No, I haven't tried shelfari. Just trust me.) They even have Unsuggester now.

― Arethusa (Arethusa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

the interface is too slow to enter many books at once.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 17 November 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

Which one Milo? You can import a csv into LibraryThing to do many at a time.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 17 November 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, LibThng is rather easy to zoom through books with.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Shelfari is slow, Library Thing is plenty quick

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

Should we do a ILXORITI GROUP? Maybe a silly idea?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 17 November 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

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