I had signed up for Goodreads in The Distant Past, when I was starry-eyed young thing. I had added maybe two dozen books, a couple of coworkers as friends, connected it to Facebook, and promptly forgot about it after that point. It wasn't until I was promoted to Librarian did I look into the service again.
I like the Listopia feature, but I don't like-like it. It's not a very well curated area, in the sense that a lot of the lists suffer from just swarms of people piling on books each time. Some items that appear on these lists are only tangentially-related to the lists's topic. On the other hand, it came in handy when I had a customer asking about historical fiction - Goodreads' userbase had constructed a pretty comprehensive list, and most of the titles on it were ones we owned as a system.
I feel the whole UI needs to be redone, however. The whole thing just seems janky and uncoordinated. It would likely intimidate the less computer-savvy users of the world, and thus they would opt to avoid a service that may otherwise be quite useful to them.
Annoying quirk - unless you are REALLY paying attention, you could be leaving yourself logged in on that site. It can create an amusing comedy of errors at work, but its a stupid thing to default to when logging in to the site. Users should be in control of their access, not have to be made to opt-out.
I commented on Rich S.'s review of a book, "Night of the Living Trekkies" by Kevin David Anderson.
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