Social Reading

Social Reading is simply wonderful. As a library assistant, and the coordinator of the library's two book clubs, I find social reading sites such as goodreads.com and vision.gnb.ca very useful. Many reading suggestions for my book clubs were found on those two sites. I already had a Vision account, but I had never created a list before. I decided to create one for one of my book clubs (specifically, listing books we have read in 2013). It will be practical to create lists for both book clubs so that I can refer to it whenever I am wondering which books my book club participants and I read in a specific year. I already had an account on goodreads.com (since the fall of 2013) and I log in on a daily basis to update the reading progress of books I am currently reading, and to see the reading activity of my friends. I have also signed up for the 2014 Reading Challenge, on GoodReads, challenging myself to read 36 books in 2014. I have already read 5 books since January 1st and am currently halfway through my 6th book. As far as comparing the two sites (Vision vs. GoodReads), I personally find they are fairly similar in the sense that they both offer users options to personalize their reading shelves (read, currently reading, and to-read), they both offer ways to share with others, and they both offer an option to follow other readers' reviews and reading shelves. I always recommend both sites to library patrons.