Goodreads is similar to LibraryThings, but with some extra functions - e.g. exploring quotes, and book swaps (only in the US though..)
I think Goodreads would be useful for customers who likes keeping lists of what they have read and have not read. I've come across several who are intereted in looking at their Reading History in MyInfo, and a few who wanted to recommend a book b ut couldn't remember what the title or author of the book was... Although I would probably only recommend this to those who are already confident with using MyLibrary.
For both library staff and customers, Goodreads would be a very useful sorce of recommendations and readers' advisory - one of the booklists on there was "Best books for reluctant readers", and also some funny ones like "The series got worse and worse" etc. Goodreads would be yet anbother place for library staff and customer to interact and talk about books, like Twitter.
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Hey hey :) GoodReads could make a useful readers' advisory tool and you're right, they have some very funny lists which we could possibly use to look for book recommendations for customers. Congratulations - you've completed week 4 and you're ahead of schedule!
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