Reader's Advisory on the Web

There are a multitude of internet sites these days to help you in your search for a good book. We make it easy to start from our webpage. Just click on Brigham City Reads and it will take you directly into Library Thing http://www.librarything.com/. Other sites like this are Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/ and Shelfari http://www.shelfari.com/These are social networking sites for readers and their books. Library Thing is the most "library" like, drawing its data from online library catalogs, including the Library of Congress.

Overbooked http://www.overbooked.org/ is the resource for lists of books with starred reviews and hot titles in all popular genres. Knowing which titles received starred reviews in several journals is a great indicator of a book that is likely to be popular.

StoryCode http://www.storycode.com/ What Should I Read Next http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/search and What's Next http://WhatsNextNEW.asp are quick, easy tools that generate read-alikes based on thousands of titles that members have entered. These sites are a good choice for unknown or obscure titles.

Whichbook http://www.whichbook.net/ has a mood-based recommender. Users employ a series of 12 sliding scales to choose the mood of the book they want to read: happy to sad, safe to disturbing, sex to no sex. Alternate scales for character, plot and setting are also available. Whichbook is also the friendliest site for visually disabled readers. Because it uses mood and appeal factors, not plot descriptions, titles, authors, or subject schemes, this site may take a little getting used to.

Susan