Friday, 8 April 2011

# 11 LibraryThing

Being an avid reader, I spent loads of time in this site. I set up an account and found lots of my favourite books quickly and easily. I was fascinated to discover that the Kite Runner had 29,859 people who had catelogued it. I spent some time looking at the different groups and thought there were some novel ideas eg the read a book with a fabulous front cover challenge. I can see how this would appeal to many people but do wonder where they would get the time to participate in challenges and group chats. I don't feel the need to have an online catelogue of books at this point, though I do feel it's a great way of keeping a record of fabulous books read as I have a terrible tendency to forget what I've read and then can't recommend them to others.I wouldn't think there's much scope for this in the primary classroom. If anyone uses it in a primary classroom, please let me know how useful it is. Checked out Yarra Plenty's new website. It was also easy to navigate. I'd love a job that involved writing book reviews!!!