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Book websites/database???

sporina · 2012-03-12 22:01:48

is there a website equivalent for books like there is IMDB for movies? Or something close where you can browse books you like/might like etc?

12-03-2012 10:01PM

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is there a website equivalent for books like there is IMDB for movies? Or something close where you can browse books you like/might like etc?

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#2 12-03-2012 10:08PM

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Have you checked out goodreads.com by any chance? Not too sure that's what you're looking for i find it good for discovering new books and reading reviews...

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#3 12-03-2012 10:26PM

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de Faoite_girl wrote: »

Have you checked out goodreads.com by any chance? Not too sure that's what you're looking for i find it good for discovering new books and reading reviews...

have a look here
i started that thread a while ago…

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#4 12-03-2012 11:24PM

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de Faoite_girl wrote: »

Have you checked out goodreads.com by any chance? Not too sure that's what you're looking for i find it good for discovering new books and reading reviews...

thanks for that.. this is good from what i can see so far..

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#5 15-03-2012 04:04PM

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A great website is librarything.com. You can create your online library of books you have read. You can get recommendations and you can see a list of members that you have been matched with, based on similarities between your book collection. You can then get ideas from their library.

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#6 15-03-2012 06:58PM

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Shelfari might be what you're looking for. It uses the Amazon recommendation engine, alongside community recommendations.

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#7 19-03-2012 06:12PM

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thanks i will check out the last two as well..

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#8 20-03-2012 12:51AM

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Literature Online is great for poetry.

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#9 21-03-2012 09:22PM

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Goodreads is great. There's also http://www.worldcat.org/ -- it lists every book ever published.

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