The link below is to an article about having your tweets (from your Twitter account) made into a book.
For more, visit:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/convert-tweets-into-published-book/
Category Archives: Social Networks
Article: The Best Book Recommendation Services
The link below is to an article that lists five of the best book recommendation services available. If you have used these services you may or may not agree with the list. If you know a better, please recommend it in the comments.
For more, visit:
http://lifehacker.com/5595842/five-best-book-recommendation-services
Shelfari – Closing My Account
This is just a short message to say that I’m closing my account at Shelfari. Why am I doing this:
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I have an account at Goodreads. I have been using both Shelfari and Goodreads alongside each other and just prefer Goodreads. Goodreads looks so much better and is far easier to navigate. Shelfari looks so old, dated and is slow and difficult to navigate in contrast to Goodreads.
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The reading group I had at Shelfari was terrible to use. I have started one at BookClubIt, as mentioned in an earlier post – I am very happy with it and will use that instead.
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I have offered the Reformed Reading group that I operated at Shelfari (there was no life in it anyway) to other members in the group to take over, so I have no more ties there. Shoould no-one take it up I will close that down also. There were only 9 members I think.
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There is too much effort involved in running two mirror sites (sort of mirror) at both Goodreads and Shelfari. I would prefer to concentrate on the one and use my time more productively on other tasks – wesbites, blogs, etc.
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Did I mention I dislike the Shelfari design a lot?
Anyhow, that is basically it I think. The only think left is to mention the sites I am at:
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BookClubIt – At the BookShelf Reading Group
At the BookShelf (Reading Club/Group)
I have started a book reading club/group in association with the Blog here – ‘At the BookShelf.’ The reading club/group will feature some of the books I post about here and will give opportunity for members to obviously discuss the books being read. This is something I’m quite excited about and look forward to seeing grow. I hope you will get involved with the club/group.
The reading club/group will also be networked with my websites, including the http://particularbaptist.com site, providing a social network feature that has been missing at the site for some time. In doing so, I will also try to network the website, the Blog and the Facebook page into the particularbaptist.com community that is slowly being built. Please get involved – over time as the network grows, the interaction increases and the fellowship expands, I’m sure it will be a blessing to us all.
The book reading club/group is simply called At the BookShelf (the same as the Blog).
Visit at:
http://www.bookclubit.com/bookclub.php?id=404
Bookish: A New Social Network Coming Soon
I have come across an article about a new social network for book lovers called Bookish. Check out both the article and the site below.
For more visit:
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/hachette-penguin-simon-schuster-aolhuffpo-team-up-for-bookish_b29478
Visit Bookish at:
http://bookish.com/
The World’s Funniest Proverbs, By James Alexander
‘The World’s Funniest Proverbs,’ by James Alexander is 154 pages long (my copy). It brings together some of the funniest sayings in the world – well they are generally clever and slightly amusing if nothing else. The book provides some light relief from reading those somewhat more heavy and taxing works that some of us tend to read. There are only about 5 or 6 proverbs/sayings per page, so the book doesn’t take long to flick through and/or read.
Why read it? Well, it provides some amusement and perhaps helps to take the mind of more serious matters for a short time if nothing else. There is always a wealth of information and content here for clever and witty status updates on Facebook and/or Twitter too.
I haven’t spent a great deal of time reading it – but I have flicked through it when time permitted and when I just needed something a little lighter for a while. It’s good for that.
Available at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Funniest-Proverbs-James-Alexander/dp/1906051070
There is a copy here:
http://ebook-freelibrary.blogspot.com/2009/12/worlds-funniest-proverbs-by-james.html
At the BookShelf 