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Originally Posted by Catlady
I don't have a clue about RSS feeds either, and I don't do Twitter or Facebook. Never even heard of LiveJournal or Google Reader before.
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If you go to Karen's Books on the Knob site, she has an RSS feed button. You click it and tell the thing where you want to look at the posts. All RSS feed is is a way to grab all the blogs you want and list the blog name and usually first paragraph. So I have my sent to my yahoo front page (not a good choice--pick google or one of the others.) Anyway, when I want scan all the blogs I like, I go to ONE page and there they are. I can quickly see if anyone has posted something of interest.
But. I like the email better. Sometimes I don't get to my blog page.
Another place you can follow DailyCheapReads is goodreads (Karen, I don't know if you are on GR. Need to check.)
I LOVE goodreads. GREAT place to keep track of your books. SHelfari is pretty good too and with Shelfari when you set up an account it gives you the option of adding all your books to your shelf if you bought them from Amazon. You can create lists of books (to read, thoughts, stars or no stars, where you bough them and so on) or not. There are some good reading groups too.
Goodreads has a lot of book giveaways, but mostly I like it because I can keep track of my books. IT has "friends" sort of like facebook, and that is very handy for lending of ebooks and also reviews or bugging my good friend about what she is reading (we read a LOT of the same things. She marks 10 books as reading at the same time and I know she's only reading one.) But anyway, that's just friend's and war and books.
I really like GR and Shelfari. There's an active sci/fi group at Shelfari and a VERY active (6 or so groups) cozy group at GR. I find some EXCELLENT reads through the comments people make on those sites.
I find them both easy to use.
Oh--to see the daily bargains from DailyCheapReads, you "friend" Daily. Then you go to your "home button" and every time a bargain is posted, it's cross posted on that home page. So if you follow both Karen and Daily, you'd see both of those posts.
I love having a "bookshelf" there. I keep track of a wish list and books I hear about that I might want to check out later.