Juiced on Writing

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.

Bibliophil.org has a lot of features including cataloguing, friends, sorting by many fields, ratings of books, recommendations, loaning of books, search for best price, wish lists, data export, mobile access, and it's all free.

Reader Squared - catalgue, tag, find friends, discuss books and authors.

The Penguin Podcast is a longrunning podcast from Penguin.co.uk, featuring book extracts, author interviews and features. Fortnightly

Listal not only does books, but music, movies, games and more. Tag them, and share with a community.

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.

Mediachest allows you to catalogue, track and borrow books, cds, dvds and games. Good groups features - use it for families, friends and co-worker groups for your exchanges.

Douban is a Chinese book loving community

Squirl beta - catalogue books, stamps, coins, comic books, records, join groups

Shelf Centred allows you to catalogue movies, books, video games via ISBN or keyword search. Organise in a shelf, make wishlists, and find friends. You can't see these lists until you've registered up (free)

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

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

Wordie (pronounced wurd-e) calls itself "Like Flickr, but without the photos."\nIn Wordie you can make yourself lists of words and phrases, and these are visible to all other wordies. The words can then be discussed. \n\nThere is a random word, a mobile version, and a supporting blog. Words displayed have options to go lookup at various websites such as wikipedia or amazon, and there is an image search also. You can register to leave a comment against the word also.

Juicespot allows people to comment on books, review them, and recommend.

Frugal Reader allows users to trade books for free, discuss them and other features.

Podiobooks.com is a site dedicated to author podcasts, where readings are created for the author's books, in a serial release.

A first-time author, a virtual unknown, can have his book rapidly climb to the top of just about every best-seller list. But that's what Timothy Ferriss of The 4-Hour Workweek did in 2007, and the way he did it was just as remarkable as what he achieved. Here, the Write to Done blog interviews Tim on his book.

373,067,200 creative ideas for writers - randomly generated prompts.

3D Mindmapping application - free 20 day trial version, available in various versions but quite expensive.

Wordpreneur's Eldon Sarte promises how to make money writing, presenting tons of information for writers looking to get paid.