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If I'm not mistaken Shelfie only works for books that are readily available in ebook format. That helps cut the price and it's a good thing but when there's no ebook it's no help.
I live in a retirement home and a number of people here read, a few on Kindles or Kobos and most in paperbacks. What always surprises me is how they'll share a grocery bag of books with one another with no care for what they might contain. Quite a few of them, when I ask them what they like to read, can't name an author or a title. They just read whatever might be in the next bag of books they get. They begin each book and if they enjoy it they keep reading.
I can't really fault those people; they're reading both good and bad books, at least by my tastes, and plenty of both. It's easy to say they have no taste but it's just as easy to say they're open-minded. I can't imagine reading that way but they seem to enjoy their reading as much as I do.
I did loan an old Kobo to a woman last year with about a hundred books on it because I couldn't get her to tell me what she liked. When she bought her own she returned it and said she'd read every book that didn't have curse words in it. If one did she stopped and went to another book.
Barry
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