Task 7--Social Readers Advisory--CHECK!

This was a great task! I had known about all of these sites and had previously done a project on Readers Advisory 2.0 sites for a class a while ago--and unloaded all I knew/learned on Nancy T to supplement our For Readers page of our website. Which is where you can find most (if not all?) of these. And while I do read like a crazy person, again...I don't feel the need to "social network" about what I read. I do like suggestions/recommendations though, so they're very interesting to browse. Boulder's Good Reads page seemed to me kind of bland and not very active, so I wasn't a big fan of that. Library Thing seemed clean, easy and appealing, if only a smidge "cataloging/tagging" heavy. Shelfari seemed equally simple with many of the same features. Good Reads maybe didn't seem as user friendly as the others, a smidge clunkier, but the discussions were interesting, and I like that you can explore most/all of the site before or without registering. I picked Shelfari, and it's fun to play with, but I think unless you have a pre-established group to hang out with on these sites, it gets boring fast. My favorite was LitLovers though. If I had seen it before, I forgot about it. I LOVED the quick recommendations with 3 different styles--that's really handy. Recipes and discussion Ice Breakers are very, very cool. The courses seem awesome. Thought provoking and easy, and gets you to read new things. For those of us that like free, literary challenges, I guess. I enjoyed this site the most. I don't know about an MCPLD Good Reads account. I'm a fan of our blog for that purpose for now. ::Shrugs::