LibraryThing

Catalog Your Own Books Online: The LibraryThing Experience

LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for book lovers. You can contribute tags, ratings and reviews for a book. When you normally review a book you can rate the book one to five stars and a make comments. You can also participate in member forums where LibraryThing connects people based on the books they like.

Your profile is pretty easy to set up and it connects you to people who share your interest in the books you love. There are over 1,700,000 users and 82 million books in the system. Connecting with other book lovers is easy on the forum system is called Talk. You can read what others have to say and post messages.

You can also choose to become an early reviewer. This is where you can get pre-publication copies of books in exchange for your reviews.