About a year ago, one of my friends showed me a website called Goodreads.com. This website is devoted to reading and sharing your favorite books with others. The website allows you to share your book recommendations with your friends and also gives you recommendations based off of the books you have in your own personal My Books library. This website allows you to rate books, add books to your virtual book shelf, explore quotes from different literature, and even set book goals for yourself such as trying to read a certain number of books in a year.
I really like this website because it is almost like facebook for books. You can update your book status by saying what book your currently reading or what book you just read or books you want to read in the future. Each book you find on the website allows you to rate it, give comments, or mark it as read, reading, or want to read. I really like this aspect of the website because it allows me to find books that I want to read and put them all in one place so I can go back and look at them later I think that websites like Goodreads are really great websites to get students involved in an online book reading community. They will be able to see that reading and loving literature is a popular hobby and they can share their own thoughts about books with others. A website like this can also help give students book recommendations when they are deciding what to read next. I really love this website and I think it's a great website for any literature lover to try out.
Here is the link to the website: http://www.goodreads.com/
This website is so great! Thank you so much for posting it. I can see myself becoming addicted to it. I am happy not only to know that there is a site like this but also for what it represents. I am glad that to see social media being used for something constructive. Hopefully sites like these will be used more by kids and need to be publicized more so that people know they exist. As our world becomes more geared towards technology I think it is important that we have educational sites like these.
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