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First let me say welcome and hope you continue to post and talk about RA.

You pose a good question. There are so many ways to keep track of what is being read today. I am regisited at shelfari but truly haven't used it much. I have a personal subscription to Bookbrowse and this is where I try to keep track of things I want to read or purchase. Here's what I do. If I see a book I'd like to purchase in the future for our library, rather than making a paper list, I post it on bookbrowse. I give it some tags like holocaust fiction, historical romance, starred reviews or the like. This alerts me to the reason I picked it to begin with. I also indicate if I'm going to wait for the paperback edition. On the personal side I keep a list of future reading possibilities. The site allows me to give it a rating of must read, want to read, etc. It's just another way to keep a list. And I love the other book content on bookbrowse so the subscription price (around $30 a year) is worth it for me.

I also have a Library Thing account. Danbury Library (CT) is using Library Thing heavily and staff there have done workshops in the state about it. I created a new books list and posted to our website using Library Thing. It's easy to use and the list looks fine. I wonder how others are using this.

I haven't really got a handle on how patrons might be using some of these sites. Our opac does not have the ability to create a good keeper list. I have asked for this feautre. This seems the natural place to keep lists of books read and books you want to read. Our vendor (Auto-graphics) recently added the ability to post reviews. This has not taken off yet but I'm hopeful.

Again, welcome.

Thanks for your reply. I began an account with LibraryThing to try it out. Our opac doesn't have list/tag capabilities either. I suppose we could just link to LibraryThing via our Readers Advisory website? I would like to introduce it to our patrons...I like the interactive format of sites like this.

I will check out Danbury's site....