Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Delicious, Librarything and Goodreads

I've peeped through delicious a few times before, but hadn't thought too much about using it for real until now. My personal bookmarks are all-a-shambles, considering I've been collecting them through my long years on the internet. These days too, I come across a lot of articles I find interesting, end up tweeting them and losing them in amongst a flurry of status updates, so if I can get into the habit of using delicious, I might be able to keep them in some semblance of order. 

Unfortunately I trend towards chaos so we'll see how that goes in the long run.


Onto LibraryThing! Which I have to admit, since I am used to Goodreads and the sheer accessibility of Goodreads from my ipod touch and phone through apps, is a bit of a moot point for me. 

On playing around with it, joining and attempting to add my known books to it, I've found it a fairly arduous process so I think I'll stick to GoodReads! My bias has already been sold. Oops! -- I've just exported my GoodReads book list and imported it to LibraryThing which eases that pain. 


GoodReads, to me has a simpler user interface. Not to mention I've already added most (at least 60% = 136 books) of my owned/read/to-read books to my shelves.

I will explore LibraryThing a bit more, but the current lack of apps is a big downside. 

1 comment:

  1. I think you will find delicious a useful tool, Chandra. Like you I trend toward chaos but have found that although my delicious is not as organised as I would like at least I have all my info in the one place at my fingertips and with the use of tags can relatively easy find my stuff.

    Thank you for sharing your thoughts on GoodReads and Librarything. I like "simple" so looking forward to checking out Goodreads when I have a moment.

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