Books are such a powerful medium. Sometimes with all of the technology that has come in the last century it is easy to forget how revolutionary the printing press was. Books are not going away and Shelfari is here to make your experience with books even better!!
Why do I love Shelfari? I love it for three reasons.
You are what you read!
Express yourself through your book collection! Why just show off the books you identify with in your living room when you can post them on-line for all your friends to see them when they want too!
Listen to your friends!
Most of us buy a book because someone we know recommends it to us. Shelfari makes this easier by linking you with your friends and their bookshelves on the Internet. All done on your own time whenever you feel like exploring the world of books.
A good book demands a Response!
Love it. Hate it. Books are crying for two way interactivity. Shelfari is a great place to rant and rave about why you couldn't put a book down. Or if you can do the world a service and save your friends from wasting their time!
Happy Reading!
Josh
Love the site!! It looks fabulous--great work!
Posted by: Tembi | October 10, 2006 at 09:46 PM
Salud! Wonderful work--so excited for you fabulous gentlemen. Thank you for your contribution to the book loving world :)
Posted by: Amanda | October 11, 2006 at 08:29 AM
It would be nice to offer the e-mail addresses of authors mentioned- should these become available from readers. Nice to have an opportunity to thank authors for their works!
Posted by: John Galavan | October 11, 2006 at 11:57 AM
Nice concept, the page seems to load wrong. I'm getting alot of overlap. Also sent you helpfull hints via your feedback channel. Good Luck!
Posted by: Marc V | October 11, 2006 at 01:07 PM
Great idea! It would be great if you made it so I could post my shelf on my bookblog. Can you make the coding available?
Posted by: mcd | October 11, 2006 at 02:22 PM
nice concept. i'm assuming the motivation for someone to maintain their "shelf" is to discuss the books with others and show off their collection? it may be very beneficial to add the ability for authors to profit off their reviews from amazon commissions, say if a visitor is convinced of buying the book of their shelf. would be a nice to way reward shelfari members for their hard work.
Posted by: ian | October 11, 2006 at 03:10 PM
Great. I love that you built it, hate that I was thinking of the same idea, and beat me to it :-)
Posted by: Dan Birdwhistell | October 11, 2006 at 05:11 PM
Great concept... I look forward to the day that we can put in our blog's addresses so people can find us on the net easier. As well, I can't wait until you add groups or 'book clubs'. We have a group here in Indy that meets and discusses Marketing books - I'd love to have a club and have everyone signed up here!
Thanks!
Doug
Posted by: Doug Karr | October 11, 2006 at 06:18 PM
What a sweet idea. Myspace meets netflix for bibliophiles. My friend referred me to you after he discovered you on Digg. I hope that the issues I've been having with the site are all due to the infusion of traffic, and not due to some problem with the site itself. I really look forward to building my shelf when the page is a bit more reponsive.
Posted by: beau | October 11, 2006 at 11:18 PM
I wish I could add more than 1 ISBN at a time. If performance does not allow import from file, could we at least paste in 10 ISBNs at a time? I have zero interest in adding hundreds of books manually.
Posted by: reslez | October 11, 2006 at 11:51 PM
I took all the time to import my library into Delicious Library and I don't want to do it again. Please email your users when the import feature is enabled.
Posted by: Thomas Reynolds | October 12, 2006 at 09:04 AM
I saw an article in the newspaper on Shelfari, and I just had to check it out. I actually don't own many books and get them at the library instead, so maybe it would be nice if there was another section for books we have read and do not own. And another thought I had was a book wish list (for those we want to read and/or buy). Thanks for the new service, and I can't wait to see what you come up with next!
Posted by: Camden | October 12, 2006 at 01:59 PM
This is EXACTLY what I was wishing I had yesterday. THANK YOU.
A feature you may want to add is to mark a book in your collection checked out to someone (and when/by whom info) so you don't have to export the spreadsheet to track such things.
THANKS!
Posted by: Cassie | October 12, 2006 at 02:34 PM
Okay, so I found a place to note that it is lent out. Awesome!
Posted by: Cassie | October 12, 2006 at 06:27 PM
It's a good site, I like it. Is it possible to find someone who has the same book as you in a specific search though?
Posted by: ed | October 15, 2006 at 08:52 AM
Hi, this is a great service, I was looking for something like it yesterday, and after looking at several services on ProgrammableWeb I saw yours. Great design...delicious eye-candy! I have an idea for the engineers: an option that'd be nice to have is when you click on a book, if besides "buy from Amazon" if you could have "find at local library" and be able to do a search from a list of local libraries. To get ideas you could check out this site: http://www.amitgupta.info/E41ST/ which gives users the option of a primary local library, and a secondary library too.
Thanks!
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