allconsuming

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I spent some time tonight playing with allconsuming.net, a cool site that could use some critical mass. It's basically a collection of info about books people are talking about. The front page lists books recently mentioned on blogs, as well as the most mentioned books of the last week. Clicking on a book will get you a detail page, with blog excerpts and purchase links. (You can use a LibraryLookup bookmarklet if, like me, you'd rather borrow than buy.)

Once you sign up as a member, there are tools for managing lists of your favorite books, books you're currently reading, books you've finished, etc. You can also compile a list of "friends" (allconsuming will recommend people who are reading the same books you are), and sign up to be notified when they mention new books, and stuff like that.

I was planning to add a "current reading" list to my journal, like Chris has on his, but unfortunately getting it updated from allconsuming requires a script tag, and LiveJournal seems to be silently removing my script tags. I've got an alternate plan, but it'll take me a while to get to it. Meanwhile, if you're wondering, here's my page.

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Allconsuming is a reasonably convenient way to do it, although (I should've mentioned) Amazon's search engine was screwed up last night, which we think is why Allconsuming's was too.