Tips from Idea15 Web Design

It’s been just over a year since I joined Goodreads, the social networking site for book lovers, and I can’t imagine a day without it.  Goodreads lets you list and review books you’ve read, see other people’s reviews, see what books they have read, and join book clubs.  You can organise your books into “shelves” and browse other users’ shelves as well.  It definitely appeals to the inner obsessive-compulsive in all of us which likes to list, organise, and categorise things. Your “friends” grow to include both your real-life friends as well as total strangers who happen to share the exact same book interests as you, which gives you a great mix of people beyond the brainless status updates so common to most “friending” sites.

Thanks to Goodreads, I’ve been able to discover some fantastic books I never would have known about otherwise, and I even got to read a preview of a book that my favourite author is still writing.  It’s also nice for me to see what my web design colleagues are reading both for work and for leisure; it would be pretty boring if we only stuck to computer manuals, so it’s great to be able to share our personal interests as well.

Why not give it a try today.  Here’s me.