Monday, September 17, 2007

The reader’s Den - Shelfari


There are finer fish in the sea than have ever been caught. If you are look for one such fine fish that you’ve never caught, then here’s a site that you must visit – http://www.shelfari.com/ . Welcome to the reader’s den. If you consider book as your best friend and would like to showcase the books you’ve read then this is where you have to be.



Seattle based social media site Shelfari, was co-founded by Josh Hug and Kevin Beukelman and was officially launched in October 2006. In February 2007 Amazon.com saw its future in this social network and invested in Shelfari



Once you’re the member of this online community of book readers, you can enjoy all its features, like create your profile where you can also upload your photograph, add friends, open your own book shelf where you display all the books you’ve read. Shelfari also allows you to display the books that your reading currently, and also the wish list to display those books you would like to read sometime in future. Apart form this you can also organize your books by adding tags which helps you to categorize the books. The members are free to comment on the books they’ve read and also hold discussions. You can also form your own group within the community where you can interact with the member of similar reading tastes.



If you are curious to find out what books your friends read or may be even like to compete with them, then don’t forget to invite them to Shelfari! And if you’ve still not visited shelfari then take your own sip and find out how mouthwatering it is.

2 comments:

Dschauffer said...

I have been a member of Shelfari for about 3 months now and it keeps getting better and better! I find all my new reads from the website and get invaluable recommendations from other bibliophiles on the site.

Dave Hanley said...

Thanks for mentioning Shelfari. This is very informative!

I thought I'd mention that we just launched our new blog widget. You can use our new graphical shelf design or simply post a list (choose titles, authors, book covers, and/or buy links) that conforms to your blog style. Would you mind taking a minute to check it out.

Thanks again supporting Shelfari. We depend on bloggers to get the word out.

--Dave