Organize Your Book Shelf Digitally With Shelfari.com

I spent the better part of the day getting one area of my life more organised thanks to www.shelfari.com

Now I can say my reading is much more organised. Well at least my reading of books. You see anyone that knows me well knows that I have invested alot of time and money into reading books all the topics I had no clue about or I wanted to get a deeper understanding. Things like Leadership, business, marketing and the list goes on and on. I started out with John C Maxwell’s The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You. I just wandared in the bookstore and picked up the most interesting book I saw on the topic of leadership. I didn’t do much deliberating or research. I just wanted to immerse myself in the area, by getting a perspective from someone else. That book really changed my life and my perceptions of leadership! I found myself with a very good concept of what leadership was all about and being very inspired to learn more.

After I that, I began to purchase more books randomly and read to broaden my horizons. After a while my purchasing far outstripped reading and today I have a situation where I own more books than I have read.

At the start of this year, 2009, I decided it was very important for me to get back into a good reading routine.

I knew that ideally it would be great to have some kind of listing which shows the books I owned and the books that I have read etc. I also decided to make a special effort to blog about the books I have read and share my thoughts with you on my blog on an on-going basis. Help you to decde what is worth reading and what is not. 

 

Shelfari.com does a wonderful job of helping me organise with this “read more” – New Year’s Resolution.  It is easy and it is very Web 2.0.

Once you sign up for a profile you can start to add books to your bookshelf which you can fit in under the following categories :-

• I plan to read
• I’m reading
• I’ve read
• ****************
• Favourites
• Own
• wishlist
• ****************
• Import Books 

I basically now have a digital representation of your book shelf so that you can keep track of all the books you own, planning to read etc. It will help me decide what to read next!

And of course being a Web 2.0 solution it will allow me to connect with other people who have also read the book and see what they thought etc. Each book has ratings, a listing of people who read it and comments. Shelfari is just what I was looking for. And I was not even looking for anything!!

 

I would recommend Shelfari to anyone and encourage our Caribbean Authors and writers to make sure their book is listed on Shelfari!  

 

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