If there is any one thing I like, it’s books. I love just having a book. It’s my favorite gift to receive(though I don’t really like gift cards to book stores) or give. It’s the reason I got my Sony Digital Reader. One of the great things now is the networking that exists through books.
My Library as it is now
About one and a half years ago, I joined goodreads, and it’s so great. It’s main use is for communicating books you’ve read, want to read, and mainly what you’re reading now and then network with others based on the books.
More recently I found LibraryThing. It’s different in that it’s oriented towards books you have, which is how I use it. It has a limit for a free account to 200 books, which is more than my current library, but if it comes to it, you can get a monthly or lifetime membership at a reasonable, variable rate. The great thing is you choosing how much, $1-20 per month, or $19-55 for lifetime.
My current profiles for those are located here for LibraryThing and here for goodreads, which will soon be placed in my links section, as well as links to my Amazon Wishlist, Picasa gallery and other similar things.
While I’m actually writing something on the ElementalComputing blog, I might as well give some news about myself. I have been mulling for a little bit recently(you would know if you follow me on twitter) about foreign languages, and for at least a year I have always wanted to get started learning a language for the purpose of reading literature in said language. Well, I’ve finally decided on which to learn. The final three contestants were Latin, Italian, and German with German winning. I remember starting this mini German course in the 6th grade, which I dropped out of after a week due to it conflicting with participating in Mock Trial. This past week of teaching myself has been interesting and fun. One thing I decided to do just today was to start writing/speaking bits of my journal in German.
Overall it should be a fun experience. Auf Wiedersehen!
