Shelfari is a technological gift to all book lovers. It's the premier social network for people who love books. On shelfari you can make your virtual shelf, divided to status sections ( I plan to read, Reading, I've read) which makes it well-arranged for you to know the books you've finished or what you still reading and your future reading plans. Also you can mark the books as favorites, owns, wish list. The (owns ) makes it easy for people you know to know what books you have in case they want to borrow something. The wish list could give your friends good suggestions of books to give you as a present. Additionally, there's a feature to put your shelf on your blog.
As a social network you can have friends there, see what they are reading, recommend them books and they can do the same to you, post them notes or any member on Shelfari asking them about a book they've read or telling them what ever you want. Of course, you can invite your e.mail contacts to Shelfari. There are groups as well, that you can join and discuss the books with members or discuss any related issue to the subject of that group. If you liked the group you can invite your Shelfari friends to it.
I think the most amazing thing about Shelfari, it lets you discover new books that may interest you. They offer an editorial review that describes the book and if it doesn't help you can read the reviews written by the members to decide if you are going to read that book or not. The tags of the book may also help to determine what kind of book is that. After reading the book you can write your own review of what you think about it, add the tags and rate the book.
Lots of Arabs and Omanis are there on shelfari, which could mean that reading popularity is increased and this is a good indication. So far, the Arabic book still absent from Shelfari for some reason, which I guess is that it doesn't support ISBN numbers of the Arabic books, because Shelfari connects to databases of English books and few other languages, but this may be fixed soon.
Shelfari is an encouraging environment for reading, which could help to raise reading ratio in our countries.
As a social network you can have friends there, see what they are reading, recommend them books and they can do the same to you, post them notes or any member on Shelfari asking them about a book they've read or telling them what ever you want. Of course, you can invite your e.mail contacts to Shelfari. There are groups as well, that you can join and discuss the books with members or discuss any related issue to the subject of that group. If you liked the group you can invite your Shelfari friends to it.
I think the most amazing thing about Shelfari, it lets you discover new books that may interest you. They offer an editorial review that describes the book and if it doesn't help you can read the reviews written by the members to decide if you are going to read that book or not. The tags of the book may also help to determine what kind of book is that. After reading the book you can write your own review of what you think about it, add the tags and rate the book.
Lots of Arabs and Omanis are there on shelfari, which could mean that reading popularity is increased and this is a good indication. So far, the Arabic book still absent from Shelfari for some reason, which I guess is that it doesn't support ISBN numbers of the Arabic books, because Shelfari connects to databases of English books and few other languages, but this may be fixed soon.
Shelfari is an encouraging environment for reading, which could help to raise reading ratio in our countries.
It just makes reading more fun, that's why I liked it :)
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I do not know how you guys manage to join a million social networks! :P
Amazon has recently announced that it has acquired Shelfari!
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