I love Goodreads! Imagine Facebook, but all about books. You sent up a profile on their site and then get busy.

Keep your own little library of what you have read, are reading and want to read. Connect with your friends, make new ones in the many groups, or continuously annoy the ones you have by sending them repeated invites to your latest distraction. I swear those last twenty invites were not me.

When you are done socializing, you can also write book reviews, talk to authors, begin that collection of quotes you know you’ve always wanted to and find ideas for what to read next.

I LOVE Goodreads. Did I mention that already?

Years ago, I went looking for a place like this online and found an early edition start-up and competitior still in business called Shelfari. They, however excited I was initially, turned me off very quickly by spamming my inbox with message after useless message. And no where on their site was there a button that let you delete your account. It took me months to get the account and the spam gone.

Like a scrapbook of your reading habits that can be as much – or as little – as you are willing to put into it, I was so happy to find Goodreads. So happy that I added as many books as I could think of right away, organized them into shelves by genres and became a weekly patron of the local library. I’m not really sure which is egging me on more – reading more or reading more so I can play more with Goodreads.

But in the great mass that are online time-wasters , Goodreads is VERY high in my books – pun intended – because it lets me indulge the inner librarian and historian that my inner child longs to be. Without the spam. Check out my profile and see if it’s for you too. Don’t forget to send me a friend invite! Time to get back to the galaxy’s third worst poetry ever.

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