Thing 14 Social Reading and Book Stuff

Thing 14 Social Reading and Book Stuff should be fun...can't wait!    

     Here I am running way behind, again.
     I started by going down through all the information that was presented. I have been a part of Goodreads for a long while. I am going to try to use the widget on my library page. I looked over LibrayThing. It looked fun and interesting but, I am learning from past experience not to get involved with too much.
     I did register for accounts with Riffle, BookBub, and BookGorilla. I decided to try all three and see which I liked best ( more to come on that later). I have had a membership to WeGiveBooks for several years and love it just as a change of pace to use with my K-2 classes.
     Several days later:
      I decided to see if I can get a Goodreads widget to work here first. So here we go:

Melinda's bookshelf: currently-reading

The Storyteller

by Jodi Picoult

tagged: currently-reading

Enchanted

by Alethea Kontis

tagged: currently-reading

Tampered

by Michele Martin Bossley

tagged: currently-reading

     Hurray! It worked. So, I will try putting it on my library page next.  :) Hurray! That worked fine, too. I just need to decide where I really want the widget.  :) CPCS Library: Your Information Place Right now it is underneath the slide show of new books. Any suggestions on a better placement are appreciated.  :)      Sometimes I just can't believe what I miss. That is how I feel about LibraryReads. I signed up for thier monthly newsletter and can't wait for the next one already. I love reading about what others are loving.         In the past few days I have gotten information from both BookGorilla and BookBub. So far, I am feeling that what comes from BookGorilla is more the kind of stuff I would try.  I even downloaded a couple of the freebies to see. However, I know some students who would like some of the suggestions from both. That is positive.  :) I haven't done much with Riffle and will probably let that one slide.       WeGiveBooks has been a organization I have used and supported a lot with our library program. They always have several titles to use at different holidays and for seasonal themes.  Our students enjoy listening to me read but watching the story via a projector. This works especially well with a large group of young students.         I am still working on ways to deal with the few ebooks I have added to our OPACs. I have to spend some serious time trying to make them easily accessible to our students without a ton of logins.  Hopefully, that will happen sooner than later.  But, for now, I am loving Goodreads, WeGiveBooks and BookGorilla and LibraryThing ~ some new to me, some old friends. I am excited to share new tools with my older students and staff, making this lesson another one that helps out here in the day to day business of school librarianship. That's success!