#11 LibraryThing

I've been a member of Librarything since January, and I really love it. I even paid the one time subscription fee to get a paid account. (NB: You don't have to pay for the site at all - it's free - but if you get really serious about it and want to catalog more than 200 books, you can pay to upgrade to an unlimited account). Librarything is interesting in that way, since they suggest that you pay $10 for a year's membership or $25 for a lifetime membership, but let you choose how much you pay: 9-20 for a year or 19-55 for lifetime. The creator of the site is pretty active in the forums and with keeping his blogs, and I've seen him say most people really do pay the suggested fee, or more.

This site is not only useful for keeping track of just how many books you own, but also what they are about, what other people think of them, and what other books on related subjects you might like. The site reccommends books according to what you already own - what books do other people with similar libraries to your own, that sort of thing, One thing I wish I could do, though, is go in and tell it to stop reccommending me so much manga. I like manga a lot, but not so much as I used to, but because I have a lot in my library, as well as books about Japanese history and culture, nearly 2/3 of my recs seem to be manga.

I mostly use the site to keep track of what books I own and haven't read yet. I use tags 'reading' and 'unread' to remember these. So whenever I feel like reading, I can just go to my bookmark of the 'unread' tag, and pick one. (The number of books with this tag is quite a large number, so I can't keep them all on their own shelf somewhere.

Another nice thing about the site is the groups, where people discuss their favorite genres of books, or many other kinds of topics. 'Librarians Who Librarything' is actually the largest one on the site, I believe. ;)

I feel a little weird about linking to my actual library, though. I don't mind thousands of strangers being able to know every book I own, but somehow I feel awkward letting people who actually know me see it. So instead, I made a new account, and added the books I currently have checked out from the library. I also went ahead and added tags, so everyone could see how I usually do that, too. If anyone has any questions about the site, feel free to ask me, because I'm on it pretty much every day.