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The following Web sites help readers find new books or enhance their reading experience in a variety of ways: with reviews, e-books, award lists, lists of favorite or "best" books, background information, and search tools that allow one to search for books by genre, plot line, character type, setting, time period, etc. These sites are useful for individual readers as well as members of book discussion groups.


General Sites

  • AllReaders.com - Search for books by plot, character or setting
  • Bookspot  - Contains reviews, lists & suggestions-great for book discussion groups
  • NoveList - find books that "read alike" available to Maine residents only
  • Overbooked - Advice for readers

Social Networking Sites

BiblioTravel http://www.bibliotravel.com/ A free online resource for
identifying stories that are set in distinct locales started by two
librarians.


Book Blogs http://bookblogs.ning.com/ “Our members read books, blog
books, write books, and publicize books.”


Book Crossing http://www.bookcrossing.com Where books take on a life
of their own. BookCrossing is earth-friendly, and gives you a way to
share your books, clear your shelves, and conserve precious resources
at the same time. A book registered on BookCrossing is ready for
adventure.


Book Glutton http://www.bookglutton.com Our intent: build an
experience that is simultaneously a book group, a computer, and a
book. Chat chapter by chapter, comment on each paragraph.


Book Jetty http://www.bookjetty.com BookJetty is a social utility that
connects you with your friends' bookshelves and checks books'
availability in the libraries.


Book Movement. http://www.bookmovement.com/ “BookMovement.com was
founded in 2001 to give book clubs a way to recommend books to each
other on a national level.”


Books I Read http://apps.facebook.com/ireadit/ A Facebook application.
Must register to use.


Books Well Read http://www.bookswellread.com The goal of BooksWellRead
is to be the online destination of choice for people who want to
'digest' what they read by capturing their thoughts in writing.
BooksWellRead has been designed to be simple, fast, and easy to use.


Crime Space http://crimespace.ning.com/ A place for readers and
writers of crime fiction to meet.


eBooklists http://www.eBooklists.pbwiki.com RAwiki being constructed
by librarians who were in graduate school together at Indiana
University.


Goodreads www.goodreads.com Keeps track of what you’ve read and what
your friends are reading. Also on Facebook.

Library Thing www.librarything.com Helps you create a library-quality
catalog of your books and connects you with people who read the same
things.


Reader2Reader. A UK network that allows readers to discover and
suggest books to each other, chat and share reader experiences or do
author/title searchers. http://www.reader2reader.net/


Read Me. http://mssv.net/wiki/index.php/ReadMe User editable wiki of
book suggestions and queries.


Revish http://www.revish.com Revish is a place where people share
their reading experiences. You can use Revish to keep and share a list
of books you're reading, write reviews of books, find recommendations
from other readers, and a whole lot more.


Shelfari www.shelfari.com Allows you to share what is on your
bookshelf with others and discover new books. Also on Facebook.


weRead http://weread.com/ “weRead is a community for book lovers.
Whether you love classics or popular fiction; whether you love Dickens
or Dan Brown; is a place where you can find others who share your
reading tastes and through them discover new books that you will love.”


What Should I Read Next? http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/search
Searchable database of real readers’ favourite books (over 47,000 and
growing) to suggest what you could read next.


What’s On My Bookshelf http://whatsonmybookshelf.com/
“WhatsOnMyBookshelf, a book trading community, allows members to
exchange their books using a simple point system. Users maintain their
own profile page with friends, book inventory, and wishlists. Our goal
is to facilitate the trading of books in addition to connecting people
with similar reading interests. Sharing a book is the creation of a
common place for dialogue, friendships, and ideas.”......................................................................
 


Reviews & Recommendations


Genre Fiction

Historical Fiction

Horror

  • Dark Echo - Focuses on horror books, new releases, reviews, reading lists, e-zines

Mysteries

Romance

Science Fiction

  • Locus Online - The Web version of the popular SciFi mag - a great source

  • SF Site - Twice monthly mix of reviews, articles, excerpts & reading lists


Maine


Booksellers

  • Abe Books - Find and purchase out-of-print books online from thousands of stores 

  • Alibris - Another Web used and out-of-print bookseller

  • Amazon.com -You can buy books, new and old, from this e-commerce pioneer

  • Maine Antiquarian Booksellers - Find all the used book dealers in Maine


E-books

 

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