Online Book Communities

I love books, but I never thought I could share my love for them through online book communities.  The suggested online book communities are: Goodreads, LibraryThing, Shelfari, Booklikes, and Biblionasium. I hope my shelves help people fall in love with reading, just like me.
 Fingers crossed!

Goodreads is a site that is user-friendly, a time saver, and manageable. I didn't have to figure out this site like I had to with others. Identifying  what I read, currently reading, or to read is fairly easily. I didn't have to go in one -by-one personally to change the category.  It is my favorite so far. I like easily manageable sites!

LibraryThing is a site that is well-organized and has everything you need on your homepage.  It has  add books, your bookshelf , and recommendations for you on your homepage. There is no hide and seek going on with this site. Everything is easily found by tabs and a thorough homepage.

Shelfari was the most complicated site I have come across so far because I had to go and edit every book on my shelf to mark  it as "READ!" I had to go through many steps to set up my profile. I am not even done because I wouldn't share friends and facts about the books I read. I only reached 65%.  Here is what I did on this site.

 

Booklikes is NOW the toughest sites I had to join to share my books. First, it couldn't load and  refresh took forever to update my profile.  It also took more time to actually have a decent  blog, but when it came to create my shelf I hit a dead end. I couldn't figure out how to add books to my shelf. So it is bare. Epic fail!!! After an hour, I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT!!!!!

As for Bibionasium, it showed me an option for my ESOL students. It has been difficult to find children books to use in class to help them acquire language and vocabulary while learning the structure of English.  I cannot build 25 books to use with my students because I don't want to overwhelm them with the number and how much they have to read. I want to build it within in time because I want to use this app in class. It is a bright and user friendly app that can help me reach my students to the max.

 

 

 

To close this entry, I choose Biblionasium and Goodreads because they are easy to use and would not take a lot of class time to use and show students. I didn't have to roam the website to figure it out, so I know students would not get frustrated using these two sites.

 I personally will keep up with Goodreads because it everything I like: it is easy, pleasing  to the eyes, and organized. No complaints over this site, so I choose it.