Reading Trails combines members’ interests in reading with an intriguing way to browse the relationships between books and authors to present new books you might want to read. Using “trails,” essentially lists of books entered by members based on the relationships between titles the member chooses, one can explore a series of ideas and books. 
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LibraryThing is a venerable reader’s social network that lets members share information about, and reviews of, the books they own or have read. Free accounts provide libraries of up to 200 books, which the site uses to make connections to other readers with similar tastes and make reading recommendations.
While LibraryThing isn’t the most elegant of [...]

We haven’t finished our review of Vox, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding your own in Comments right now!

We haven’t finished our review of Epinions, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding your own in Comments right now!

The Red Room Home Page

Red Room is a community of writers and readers that examines the writer’s life from the inside. If you are passionate about books or want to be a writer, Red Room is a good candidate for you online time. Unlike GoodReads and LibraryThing, among others, which began as readers’ shared [...]

We haven’t finished our review of GoodReads, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding your own in Comments right now!

Reading may not be the first thing you think about when you stop surfing the Web, but for book lovers the social network has been a godsend, helping them discover new authors and books that they’d never find in their local bookstore.
Shelfari, a readers’ social network, was recently acquired by Amazon.com, so we expect it [...]