Ryan has a really good habit of keeping track of all the books he's read and writing up little descriptions. It's something that I've thought about doing for a long time but never really got around to it. So I forced myself to join goodreads which is a social networking site (what today on the internet isn't a social networking site now?) based around books.
I'm primarily using it because it'll track my read, currently-reading, and to-read lists and I don't have to do any work, which I like. I'd thought about writing something similar for my blog which would let me do some fancy database magic and keep a record of all my books but why reinvent the wheel? So, if you're interested in what I'm reading you can follow me Corman @ Goodreads.
I wish I could get more excited about this because I read a lot and I absolutely love books but I'm suffering social networking site burnout. Between this site, and my profiles on myspace, del.icio.us, stumbleupon, facebook, twitter and now goodreads, I'm starting to find all the different ways to connect and talk to people overwhelming and redundant. Some people only message me on myspace, some only on facebook, some through email or by comments here. It's not that I don't want to hear from you out there, I do. It's that "checking my email" isn't just checking my email, it's now logging into at least six different sites, dealing with six different interfaces managing six different sets of saved / archives messages. Exhausting, or maybe I just haven't had enough coffee. But don't stop writing in, I like hearing from you all. I just need to figure out a better way to manage it.
Posted by Ben Corman at 2:46 PM