8. Library Things

A reader has recommended a "blog" called Library Things. When I looked at this site, I experienced one of those moments when you marvel at what you can do on the web.

This is a site where you can list books in your collection. To do this you use the Amazon Books list and it takes only a few seconds to identify books that are commonly available. It took less than five minutes to set up a screen like this.

As well as identifying the books, you can tag each book for example as travel, novel, lounge, study etc. Click on the picture to enlarge it in order to see how I posted a list of some of my books.

Once you have done this, you can do some most interesting things. You can find out who shares your book interests and make contact with them. You can join a group of people who share their views about a book.

I am wondering whether this really is a blog though. You can put up information regularly on the site. You can invite others to comment. But it is not a diary and so is it a blog?.

I am also wondering whether the web site Friends Reunited would be called a blog. This is the

Database to help trace old school friends and organise reunions.

Again you can put up information regularly on the site and invite comments but it is not a diary.

Another possible candidate candidate is Ebay but since the emphasis in this case is upon buying and selling rather than providing information, it is not likely that it would be thought of as a blog.

For a rather different reason I ruled out Judy's Tips as a blog in my first post. She usually provides information for her readers and does not usually seek responses.

Judy Goodlet however has written to remind us about the meeting in Southampton on December 20th in aid of the Radio Solent Daisy Appeal. Just click on Judy Goodlet to find out more.

To go straight to my first post about Judy Goodlet just click here