Right now I just keep a running list of books I want to read and authors I want to explore on a note on my iPhone, but I was wondering if there was a good app for that. If it could suggest books and authors based on my list, that would be cool, too.

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DM

goodreads.com

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I use notepad on my ipod touch, it can create separate lists.

I just keep a buttload of books in the "Saved Items--To Buy Later" of my Amazon shopping cart. I can look at them thru the Amazon app on my iPhone or thru any web browser I happen to be using. I have dozens of books in my cart, and of course have quick access to user reviews of them. I read lots of books and have always found Amazon the easiest way to plan my future purchases and get them.

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goodreads.com

+1

or maybe [www.librarything.com]

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I was checking out goodreads, and there are some good points, but you have to be able to deal with the same book appearing in both the "Best Books Ever" and "Worse Books Ever" categories on the front page. Clearly member driven!

Pickin's were really slim in a couple of my favorite categories, and I also need to go back and see if new categories can be added. Again, because apparently members are in charge of choosing the categories, some of the books listed under "crime" should really be under "mystery", and vice versa. I did get the names of a couple of good sounding books I've now ordered from the library, and I need to go back and do more looking.

I'm thinking whoever uses Amazon for keeping track of books is onto something, I might start doing it that way. Good idea!

Thanks for the ideas everyone!!! I'm off to check out the links.

It would be so much easier if the Chicago Public Library would just make their own app so I could also send in my request for the books I want to borrow!

DM

PS to AlphaDog- did you ever work out something with your library re: home service???



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Yes!! My little library not only lets me order books online, I am now in their "Outreach" program. I order books, DVDs, whatever I want through the website, and once a month a nice lady delivers what I've ordered and picks up what she brought the month before. It's really cool! I can also do lists of books that look interesting but which I haven't yet decided if I want to order or not. I can also keep a list of the books I've already read.

I find it very strange that I have this service in my little town and it's not available in Chicago. My library uses the Polaris Library System, and I think many libraries in the country use it. That winds up being both a blessing and a curse. The consistency is nice, but there's no way for them to be responsive to suggestions about how to tweak it so it'll work more efficiently. Beggars cannot, however, be choosers!

Ditto laarree.

Amazon shopping cart for stuff I'm interested in.

Pile on my nightstand... and bookshelf... and end table... for stuff I've got.

Yep, Doc, I've got the same piles. I love books. If I ever get a device for eBooks, I can see using it for reference books, but it will never replace my piles.

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I had to stop buying books. I couldn't walk into a book store without spending at least $50.

Issue number one is that I can't really afford them. Issue number two is that I went through a period several years ago when I moved 5 times in 6 years.

As a single girl, getting help to move is hard enough. Getting help to move when half your boxes are books is virtually impossible.

My collection was whittled down each time I moved and at this point, I own very few and the library is my friend.

DM

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If I ever get a device for eBooks, I can see using it for reference books, but it will never replace my piles.

I've had ebooks on my cell phones since before the turn of the century. They don't replace real books, but having a small library on my cell phone is a heck of a convenience when I'm on a long trip and I've finished my paperbacks.

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I had to stop buying books. I couldn't walk into a book store without spending at least $50.

...And that's just for one oversized paperback.

Yeah.

That's why I started hitting Goodwill for books.

$1 hardcover and $.50 or $.75 paperbacks.

I'm presently in a small apartment where there's little room for bookcases, but I can't bring myself to throw away books. I enjoy re-reading many of them and others are useful for reference or just nice to have in a collection.

Periodically, I drop off a box at my parents house to sit in their basement until such a time as I own a home with a room suitable for a library.

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I had to stop buying books. I couldn't walk into a book store without spending at least $50.

I know the feeling, Deborah. I've got it mostly under control now; looking at what I actually spend on books per annum thru the magic of Quicken reports over the last several years has helped put a brake on that. The numbers were not astronomical, but were more than I was comfortable with.

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Not practical or effective for everything, but I like using the Kindle app to save samples of books I might want to read. Of course, the book has to be available via Kindle in the first place, but this is an easy way to mark a book for possible purchase while getting a taste of it at the same time.

i'll stick in my pitch for www.bookmooch.com and www.paperbackswap.com

its a great way to get rid of books you're no longer interested in and get great books in return.

warning: you may end up with more books than you started with!

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