A few days ago my boyfriend and I were talking about our ideas on cool websites we should start. He mentioned a social networking site centered around books. He said it would be a great idea because most people read for the hipster cred it may give them.
This site would be a way to publicly list all of the books the person has ever read, write reviews, post books they want to read, and look at other peoples’ pages with this same information.
What a great idea, I thought, and promptly went online to find the site we were both certain already existed.
Good Reads is just the site I was looking for. I hadn’t heard of it before searching it out online, so my guess is it hasn’t gained anywhere close to the popularity facebook has. It does, though, offer a few great ways to show the world how much you read.
It offers book lists, quizes, ways to interact with other book geeks, buy books, and other fun little activities. It also provides the option to develop a personal profile complete with your very own “bookshelf”.
So if for some reason your current social networking site isn’t good enough, you can always try out Good Reads.
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