Comments on: Google’s “My Library” (and Other Bookish Social Networks)

By: Life-Changing Books Now on Google’s “My Library” | Open Culture

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:38:43 +0000

[...] why not add them to our “My Library” page on Google, a new product that we briefly mentioned yesterday. You can access the collection here (or get it by rss feed). And, as you’ll see, we also [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:37:49 +0000

Disappointing. May be google will improve it in their next release. For now, I love the Books iRead app on Facebook. Let’s me create book club and invite my friends.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:25:20 +0000

Thanks for the link. I’ve been all over Google’s My Library since it launched. The full-text search is what won me over — something LibraryThing, Shelfari and the other bookish social networks are not going to be able to match. But widgets for the web and Facebook would be nice, for sure.

By: Dan Colman

Dan Colman — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:54:24 +0000

Thanks for mentioning LibraryThing. It was one of the items flagged in Deeplinking’s compilation.

By: Carol A

Carol A — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:39:44 +0000

I tried out “My Library”, yes, very useful BUT has anyone at Google ever heard of the Dewey system used in libraries? Or indeed any method of organising books under subjects? Even searches by author can be frustrating; one search found nothing by an author, yet one by title found the book, complete with the “non-existent” author’s name (and yes, it was spelt correctly). Report card: good, but could improve.

By: Gigi Rives

Gigi Rives — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:30:18 +0000

This sounds like Google BookSearch meets the fabulous LibraryThing.com