I have been checking out a number of applications on recently as I become more active on the social network. The application for the book site Good Reads have been one of those I have engaged with a bit. I already have an account dating back to 2005 on Library Thing, but their application for Facebook is still in development (edit: ). Since a couple of my friends were using Good Reads I thought I would check it out. There were a number of problems from the moment I began to use the application. The biggest: it would not import all of my books from Library Thing. About one hundred or so were missing. That was not a huge deal, I can only go in and manually add them, but then I began to notice the wrong editions of books were being upload even if I typed in the correct ISBN! Good Reads seems to be pretty buggy in general. I ended up manually adding my books to Good Reads over winter break a little each day, but I am very disappointed with how this works. Nevertheless, until Library Thing has a presence on Facebook this is the best library application out there. I will look into the third party Library Thing application and see how that one works.


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