Thing #11

LibraryThing is amazing! Simply put! I love the interactiveness of it. It's a book club and discussion forum for people who can't make it to a book club in person. I could envision using this with my book club students or recommending it to teachers to use in their classrooms for response journals. Students can search a large database of books, and when they add a book they like, LibraryThing gives them recommendations for similar books with similar tags! Students can even find groups of people interested in similar literature and hold discussions with them! Students primarily become turned off from reading when they feel they are being forced to read something they aren't interested in. With LibraryThing, no matter their interest, there are a group of people ready to talk to them about it. And no one can judge them because they have the anonymity of the internet!