Books and Reading

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Book Crossing
Breath new life into books instead of letting your old favorites collect dust - pass them along to another reader. Book Crossing allows members to connect with other readers, and trade and follow their books through 'reading and releasing'. Users are able to tag and track their individual books by marking them with BCIDs (BookCrossing Identity Numbers). Once the BCID is registered on the site, the book can be followed as it's passed from reader to reader.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/

Goodreads
Goodreads is the largest site for readers and book recommendations in the world, with more than 6,900,000 members who have added more than 240,000,000 books to their shelves. A home for casual readers and bona-fide bookworms alike, users can recommend books, compare what they are reading, keep track of what they've read and would like to read, find their next favorite book, form book clubs and much more.
http://www.goodreads.com/

LibraryThing
LibraryThing is a cataloguing and social networking site for book lovers, which helps you create a catalogue of books, books you own, books you've read, books you'd like to read, books you've lent out, whatever grouping you'd like.
http://www.librarything.com/

Shelfari
Shelfari�s members can build virtual bookshelves to express themselves to their friends and to the world, discover books that are popular in their trusted circles of friends, influence peers by rating and discussing books online, discover and learn from people with similar reading tastes, participate in online book groups to further explore literature and share ideas, and interact with and learn from authors. The site is owned by Amazon.
http://www.shelfari.com/

WeRead
WeRead allows members to get personalized recommendations for new books and authors, find people with similar interests and add them as friends, share their ratings and reviews with the book community, and take quizzes, become part of book-clubs and join discussion boards.
http://weread.com/

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