What I like about LibraryThing: the attractive visual images of the covers, plus the links to what other people are reading. I stuck in a bunch of different books and found lots of paths away from them to similar reading.
On the other hand, it’s lists that I prefer. Give me an old fashioned annotated bibliography any day! Perhaps it’s just that I haven’t created a library web page– that’s where I expect LibraryThing would shine. I also found it a little frustrating scoping out the LT and WordPress relationships– until I realized that the blogs that showed me LT book jackets were not WordPress.
Another tiny reality: when I’m really busy as I have been lately, new technology is way down the list. Cooking, reading, talking to friends– they all come much higher than figuring out how to make code work or how a new tool interacts with the old stuff.
On to the next thing, I say!
