Lovely LibraryThing

Here's the Thing: I've been keeping a list of every book I read since 1989. Following a reader's advisory workshop where this was recommended, I adopted the practice because I'd read a book and like it. But often, a week later--sometimes just a day later--I couldn't remember the author or title. Because I have them in order within month/year, I'll occasionally go back and see what I was reading at some key point in my life. Or I'll look to see what year I first discovered a treasured author. The problem arises when I want to look back for the title of a book I can't remember and have no idea what year I read it. I flip through page after page of titles, hoping it will jump out at me. LibraryThing could change that. With careful, descriptive tagging, I could create a better library for myself.

Finding Feeds

For beginnners like me, Bloglines is the easiest to use for understanding, searching and organizing feeds. I like the idea of having feeds located in one spot from the blogs I like and intend to read regularly, but don't.

READ Image

The ALA Read Poster Image Generator is quite fun and easy too. Here I thought the people I know with a READ image owned the software! In any event, it's easy to use and for this post, I've even imported the pic of a girl I know who reads, reads, reads...

Bloglines, bloglines

Got my bloglines account and a list of nifty new subscriptions too: comics, fashion, books... This thing wasn't too hard, at all!

iPhone Envy

Never thought I'd say this, but I want an iPhone, not the Verizon model I have. The clarity and size of the screen, easy touch set up, incredibly intuitive interface...honestly, regular cell phones can't compare! And the applications--free applications--available for the iPhone are incredible. One I'd find invaluable is AroundMe which brings up not only a list of restaurants, coffe shops, taxi services, etc. based on your current location, but the phone number and google map too.