Comments on: On Social Book Networking http://markcnewton.com/2008/05/31/on-social-book-networking/ Wed, 23 May 2012 18:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mark C Newton http://markcnewton.com/2008/05/31/on-social-book-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-221 Mark C Newton Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:18:40 +0000 http://blog.markcnewton.com/?p=146#comment-221 This is true, and I confess to being the same to an extent. While I'll never have books I haven't read on main display, I will have books there that I think are amazing, and then I can bore people until they read them too. That is, if I'm brave enough to let anyone near my books... I think re: the virtual shelves that people are less likely to fill them with books they haven't read, since they're more like a database - it's more 'look how much I've read'. Which is another danger entirely... This is true, and I confess to being the same to an extent. While I’ll never have books I haven’t read on main display, I will have books there that I think are amazing, and then I can bore people until they read them too. That is, if I’m brave enough to let anyone near my books…

I think re: the virtual shelves that people are less likely to fill them with books they haven’t read, since they’re more like a database – it’s more ‘look how much I’ve read’. Which is another danger entirely…

]]> By: Tim Akers http://markcnewton.com/2008/05/31/on-social-book-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-220 Tim Akers Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:59:32 +0000 http://blog.markcnewton.com/?p=146#comment-220 I always get nervous when I go to someone's house, and they have that one bookshelf near the front door. These are the books they *want* you to see, understand, the books that they feel comfortable admitting to or the books they want to impress you with. I'd rather paw through the rotty cardboard boxes in their back closet, to see what they actually read. Which, when discussing virtual bookshelves, gets you to the question of virtual honesty. Are people posting their actual reads, or what they want you to know they're reading? I always get nervous when I go to someone’s house, and they have that one bookshelf near the front door. These are the books they *want* you to see, understand, the books that they feel comfortable admitting to or the books they want to impress you with. I’d rather paw through the rotty cardboard boxes in their back closet, to see what they actually read.

Which, when discussing virtual bookshelves, gets you to the question of virtual honesty. Are people posting their actual reads, or what they want you to know they’re reading?

]]> By: Mark C Newton http://markcnewton.com/2008/05/31/on-social-book-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Mark C Newton Sat, 31 May 2008 13:37:32 +0000 http://blog.markcnewton.com/?p=146#comment-217 One day you'll back on your list and smile... And because you're a book geek like me, that's why you do it! :-) One day you’ll back on your list and smile… And because you’re a book geek like me, that’s why you do it! :-)

]]> By: Part-time Punk http://markcnewton.com/2008/05/31/on-social-book-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Part-time Punk Sat, 31 May 2008 11:24:16 +0000 http://blog.markcnewton.com/?p=146#comment-214 I use LibraryThing, and so far all it's managed to make me do is waste even more of my life adding pointless data to something nobody apart from me will ever read. Why do I need to know when I last read a book, when and where I bought it, which edition I have? Why do I keep adding information to it? I use LibraryThing, and so far all it’s managed to make me do is waste even more of my life adding pointless data to something nobody apart from me will ever read. Why do I need to know when I last read a book, when and where I bought it, which edition I have? Why do I keep adding information to it?

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