As you probably noticed, I added a new feature to the blog: aNobii panel in the sidebar.
If you’re a bookwork like me, it’s a place for you. You can list all the books you’ve ever read, rate them, tag them and share them with others.
I’m new there and, what can I say, I’m not the most accessible person in the world, but if you are, this might be a good place to make new friends, who have a similar taste as you.
For me, it’s more like a treasury of books I’d love to read.
I treat my profile as a little collective. I wanted to add something similar as a wordpress page, but it would be a pain to keep it updated. I accidently found this widget and decided to take advantage of the situation ;).
So now I manage the whole thing in just a few clicks.
I organize my collection by Author’s name, but I could also do this by status, title or rating. I can switch book’s status between options like “not started”, “finished”, “reading” etc. I can add a specific date when I finished reading a book and thanks to this aNobii counts the number of books I read and number of pages: at this exact moment, I have 17 read books (3 re-reads included) which is a total of 7890 pages ;). This year, I mean and I’m not done with adding my books! Some of them simply aren’t there yet (yeah for polish books…).
A re-read. I can add a “re-read” date and it certainly works for me since this year I read the whole “Black Magician Trilogy” by Trudi Canavan twice. Firstly, I read it in Polish and then re-read it in English. And what’s the point in adding the same book twice even if the language is different?
When I’m done with status I can add tags. Most of my collection is tagged under “! The Loved Ones” simply because I hardly remember the bad books x_x, except for the few ones I have on my bookshelf… and those are yet to come ;).
There’s also a whishlist panel, so I can keep track of books I plan to read.
To each book, no matter what the status is, I can add a comment, but I guess I should call it a review. Might be useful, but personally, I’d rather write such things here ;), so there would be the slightest chance that Vihainen wouldn’t die too soon ;D .
If I get tired of a book I can put it under “tradable” category. After specifying a few details like book’s condition or price it is ready to be sold.
If I lend a book and the person who borrowd it is a member too and he/she doesn’t feel like returning it, I can send a reminder ;) [beware Catastro~! <3].
Last but not least, I can share my books with you guys, right here, without spending the whole eternity on coding pages or getting lost somewhere in the middle of adding books. I don’t have to host book covers or any information, this small plugin is all I need.
There probably are features which I didn’t mention here. Either because I haven’t noticed them quite yet or I don’t really think they are very important.
If you want to find out if I missed something, simply sign up! Especially, if you read more than two books a year ;).
[Side note:] It’s kind of the first review-like entry on the blog. I know, I suck at this kind of stuff, but I will do my best to improve, so don’t be too harsh on me and I wait for some feedback <3.
Like, from all 3 of you who may read it: Ria, Ari and Catastro XD.
