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Originally Posted by pking36330
Everyone that took time to contribute this thread needs to go NOW to GoodReads.com and create a free account and populate it with all the books you've ever read.
It has a great link to Amazon's catalog of books, so if you type in 'Anne Rice' it returns 133 books that you can check off as read (quick rate 1 to 5 stars or enter a lengthy couple of paragraphs if you so desire).
When I found this website a few weeks ago it was actually FUN going through my library and cataloging what I own. Along the way I would remember other books I've read but don't own now and I'd enter them also. You can find books you might have read by looking through the lists on the site ('Best Books of 2008', 'Worst Books of All Time', etc). I discovered that I have 23 books IN MY HOUSE that I've been meaning to read and just haven't done so. I only read 3-4 books a month, so GoodReads just saved me some serious money over the next six months (maybe I can squirrel it away and buy a Kindle).
I enjoy the features and ease of cataloging my reading list on GoodReads and sharing my list with my kids. I even convinced one of my kids to read one of my all-time favorites because he saw it on my list. I know he'll enjoy The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart as much as I did.
I hope by the time I purchase my Kindle 2, GoodReads will have become the 'Official Kindle User Catalog' and be somehow integrated in the system.
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That seems like a lot of work
