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"Book lovers already have a few choices when it comes to social networking and cataloging: LibraryThing, Shelfari and more general services like Listal.  Now there's one more.  GoodReads, which launched today, allows you to list which books you're reading or plan to read, offer to sell and swap books, write reviews and get recommendations from friends.  There's no recommendation engine here: instead, it's all about getting suggestions from other users.  Books and authors have their own pages, and of course you can buy titles through Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other online bookstores - that's the standard business model for all these sites.  \nIt's pretty good: it's a little hard to find new friends on your first visit (GoodsReads needs its own version of MySpace's Tom), but its overall simplicity is appealing.  That said, I still miss the dynamic recommendations served by the likes of Flixster and Listal: those sites keep you clicking by constantly serving up related media.  \nGoodReads also has a \"widget\" for posting to MySpace, hi5, Facebook et al, although calling it a widget may be a little overboard: it's actually a static image.  On the upside, I doubt MySpace will block static images anytime soon.  ;)\nUpdate: When I say static image, I mean as opposed to a Flash widget.  However, GoodReads point out that the image changes based on your GoodReads activity, so in a sense it's dynamic.  \n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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