LibraryThing/Goodreads Nonfiction/Fiction
22 June 2009
I think the choice of which book cataloguing site to use – LibraryThing or Goodreads – in the end depends on your reading material. For me I buy and read mostly non-fiction. I would read anything from autism to Zen Buddhism. Not all books I will read from cover to cover. Not all books are meant to be read from cover to cover. So how do you rate these books?
Essentially Goodreads is for fiction readers who want to read and rate their novels, poetry and drama they have read. And LibraryThing is for nonfiction readers who want to catalogue and organize all their books on a database.
It is not a competition between the two. LibraryThing and Goodreads may be online services for books but the short of it is they serve different people with different purposes.
