[edly]

Made an account just to comment: Goodreads seems to be way more interested in selling books than recommending books, and they want to sell books from Amazon primarily, then other major online retailers. I'll give points for including "smaller" retailers like Indiebound, but they're at the bottom of the list.

I just switched to LibraryThing and I'm in love with it. It not only predates Goodreads but it runs circles around it. Go to a book page on LibraryThing and you're treated to the most common tags for it, people with similar libraries to yours who have it in their libraries, member recommendations for similar books, lists the book appears on, forum conversations, and a full list of translators, editors, and illustrators. Want to acquire the book somehow? You can configure LibraryThing to have links to major retailers and even search for local book shops and libraries and have them appear in all book pages. AND, if you want to swap a book for another book instead, it gives you links to swap sites with how many are available and how many are requesting said book.

[stonesweep]

You're not the only LibraryThing user around - we get drowned out in these HN threads because the UI isn't sexy.

[edly]

Honestly? I think LibraryThing's UI is the best I've used when it comes to sites of that type. I think the only thing that's a little unclear is adding books, but for managing books and their metadata, the interface is detailed and offers very granular options for filtering and sorting.

[pjmorris]

Big LibraryThing fan. I paid a teenager to label bins and catalog the books in each bin and made each bin a LT collection. If I can't find something on my office shelves, I check LT to see if it's in a bin. It's really handy.

[dcrtr]

Sorry to sound dumb but I don't follow, you had your physical books in a bin? And you paid this teenager to categorise them into LT? What was the value for you. Again sorry it will be making me sound like an idiot asking this ;)

[pjmorris]

1. We were moving. They had to come off the shelves anyway.

2. I've got more books than shelves.

3. Until I figure out my book/shelve situation, the bins make it easy to keep the books out of the way in storage, but turn up a particular book when I need it.