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Librarything allows you to catalogue your books, using amazon searches, the Libary of Congress or other world libaries. Review, and rate these, and share with friends. Import from anywhere. Tag, list by book cover or lists, there are large discussion groups also, an early reviewers club, and LibraryThing widgets to share your book collection in various ways on your blog. Free accounts allow for 200 books. Over this, a small subscription yearly or a lifetime membership is available.

Books Well Read offer cataloguing facilities, sharing, but private comments on books (rather than public reviews) if the user just wants to make notes on their books. You can also add multiple entries per book. If public, these can be classified as spoilers.

Bookcrossing - share books via this famous community - register the book, and leave it to be picked up locally at a park, coffee shop or anywhere you purposely leave it. You can also hold a library of books read onsite for yourself.

One way to enhance a person's standards of living is through reading books with an excellent substance. How can it be possible? Well, as they say, opening a book means opening a new world. It's amazing how one book that contains words can give so much wisdom and knowledge to a person. It exposes readers to the world's realities, bettering their perspective of the world by helping them understand it. Truly, self-improvement starts with reading. If you are someone who has a passion inside of you to write a book, you should. You should not be hesitant to get started. Not only will you be able to impart knowledge to others, but it will also make you feel contentment because you finally got an important message out. This way, you make a valuable contribution to the world. Overall, if you are thinking about writing a book that can change your readers' perspectives on how they see the world. The writing process can be daunting. You have to consider a handful of points so you can get through it efficiently. However, no matter how exhausting it gets, nothing can compare to how rewarding feeling you'll get. This article will help you by making it possible to write a book with powerful content. The points below will guide you as you write your book.

Bookcrossing has a unique way of sharing books - it's users leave their old books on park benches, coffee shops etc. But the site itself also offers a community to discuss books, authors and characters.

Titlz intends to provide data and trends on the book publishing industry - historic data, sales rankings on books on Amazon, trends on topics and titles. Although still in development, book industry professionals can currently use TitleZ for free.

Not every book can be a thriller or a heartbreaker. But yours can. It is a superb way to stand out from the crowd - to produce a book that stands head and shoulders above other books in your field. Keep them reading, pull at their emotions, and your book is more likely to make its point.

Especially with the recent growth in self-publishing and ebooks there has been an explosion of new books across all genres but how many people are writing books that could be described as 'general fiction', 'contemporary fiction' or 'literary fiction'? Or what about 'quiet fiction'? Are writers too concerned with their demographics and less with writing books that need to be written?

You are very capable of setting and achieving your goals when it comes to writing a book. Be prepared to celebrate your small successes along the way. They will lead to your ultimate goal of holding your completed book in your hands. I can speak from experience that becoming an author of a published book is one of the most special moments you will ever have.

7 people share how a certain book changed their lives. Inspiring stories that may have you running to the library or ordering a book!

Poet H. Nelson Fitton published his first book, "Musings" in December 2009. Fitton, 88, of the Franconia area is the author and editor of his book that presents a collection of more than 200 poems written throughout his life, many that have been published prior to the release of his book.

Book Jetty allows you to catalog, rate and review books, check availability through libraries (from 11 different countries), discuss books with firends, display on your blog

Bookrabbit is an online bookshop, but with social networking thrown in also. Catalogue your own books, create your own categories, find friends, read other catalogues, join a book group. Now allows imports from LibraryThing and Shelfari.

Tescos is a top supermarket in the UK, and on the front page of their online books area, they have several top charts for books.

A cover is more than just a title and an image. On the back, people read the author's bio. They read the reviews. They look at the author's picture. But most of all, they read the back cover blurb. Those few lines answer the book buyer's critical question: "What's this book all about?"

If you plan to self-publish your non-fiction book, the most important thing you will ever write is the cover blurb for your book. Here's how to do it right.

At Winner one can Find Science Fiction Fantasy books from Winner Trilogy an online book store, offering information on new releases, old favorites and forthcoming Science Fiction.

Winner is a complete science fiction book club with original series of books and all-new short fiction. One can get all information on science fiction and fantasy books with their authors, cover art, ratings, bibliographies and commentaries.

Book Tribes provides more book lists, groups, sharing and tags.

What's on my Bookshelf offers cataloguing, tags, popular tags, and users can trade books using a points system