Goodreads, LibraryThing, and Shelfari.
Since I've used Library thing for several years and have a lifetime membership, I admit to a personal bias. Goodreads was okay but the library sites looked more like book discussion lists. Was impressed with the High Plains cat., they've done a great job adding Library Thing enhancements to their catalog and the catalog is easy to use. It was so nice to see a decent catalogs compared to the symphony workflows crap our system has now.
Both appear to be okay, both have book discussion groups etc. I preferred the library thing enhancements used by libraries in their catalogs to the goodreads use by libraries.
Thought the slam the boards idea was interesting. Because let's face it our jobs as a librarian have become less a "librarian" and more a tech person helping patrons use the computers. I really miss the "good old days" where I could do more "reference work" and this sounds like fun.
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