Goodreads.com: What is it & how can it help you readers

bookshelf community on goodreads

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What is it?

I told one of my juniors about goodreads and he said, “That is what i was looking for from such a long time.” 

For some people it just fills a void.

Goodreads is a world’s largest site for book readers and recommendations. It allows you to 

• build a list of books. Ex. Read, To read and Currently reading are the default shelves
• rate and review those books
• find out what your friends are reading
• get recommendations
• form book clubs and groups
• facebook sync

bookshelf... an initiative

"They hide the books in the library."
"Hmmm... Hiding books in a library? I couldn't have thought of that."
"Seriously yaar. Waise to novels milengi nahi. Aur kisi ko milti bhi hai to wahin kisi kone mein chupa ke rakh dete hain."

In an year or so I had realised that to think of library as anything more than a channel for TBLS will be like too much of an optimistic view. It has its pluses in form of reading room, macs, photocopy and not to forget couples (for couples is what i mean) but that's about it.

So I, along with a few friends decided to do something about it. In our third sem (July-Aug 2011), we made a pool of our books and decided to buy a few more so as to have a good collection and bookshelf was born in Rajiv. Through it people can rent out books they would like to read at low prices. It is a steal for fast readers and we're working on making it one for average readers as well.