Sometimes that which you come away with isn’t what you went in looking for.  Case and point, while reading Will Richardson’s blog this weekend, which by the way is a great read so no offence to him by not posting about his content, I noticed that he included a little widget on his page highlighting various books.  Turns out this is powered by a nifty little twist on social networking called LibraryThing.  This site allows you to create an account and add books to your profile, subsequently encouraging comments and personal ratings on the various books in your ‘library’.  You can read other user’s comments, participate in dialog about the books, join a book group around particular interests and search for books based on ratings/tags/etc.  You could even put together a library of other people’s libraries.  I think I’m going to include a book widget on here so I can share some of my reads too.

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