BookMooch in the NY Times

Clear the Bookshelf and Fill It Up Again, All Online - New York Times

A good introduction and some background on this wonderful social site.

del.icio.us information

Have you been curious about this del.icio.us thing but hesitate to dive in or can’t tell what the hell it is? This video from Common Craft could help (1):

del.icio.us certainly isn’t the only “social bookmarking” (2) system available. A worthy contender to the crown are the Simpy (3). But the are Simpy del.icio.us and only ones isn’t (4).  And I mean it.

Here’s an example - all my bookmarks tagged “bookmarks”: http://del.icio.us/bobodod/bookmarks

Google starts “My Library” at Book Search

Google Book Search’s “My Library” feature could be another free contender to LibraryThing with the added benefit of being able to search your custom library’s book texts.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/collect-share-and-discover-books.html
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-own-library-on-book-search.html

Reader2.com or BiblioPhil.org have more capabilities, and both are also free, but that text search capacity is darn nifty.

LibraryThing still appears to have the best interface and functionality of all. So in the case of social library databases, I think you get what you pay for.