Online Book Communities

Goodreads was sort of easy to navigate and use when you're looking up books to add to your collection. The only bad thing I found was the user needs to make sure to save to the correct selected collection, because otherwise you'll be back tracking to correct your mistake. I like the overall user rating and I liked how I could add my own rate to the books too. It may be difficult at first but with practice I think students could create their own book collection.

LibraryThing was actually a lot easier  to use then Goodreads. I was able to find the books a lot quicker, rate the books, and the cool thing about this site is I had the author listed, the date of the publication, and more. I believe students would like browsing this site verses Goodreads. The only drawback again the adding to the "right" collection and its not completely appealing unlike Booklikes and Biblionasium. Just remember to select the correct collection otherwise you'll have to backtrack like I did in the GoodReads webpage.

I absolutely loved Booklikes. It took a while to add the books because you couldn't simply add on more books to the collection at once like Goodreads. I liked that I could set up my own shelves and have a background to add my books. The book covers are easy to see and display looks like a digital library shelf. You can add a description to your book shelf that you created and title the whole webpage collection. It gives you the amount of books within your collection as well. This is by far my favorite and I would like to think that my students would find it super easy to browse through and use.

Biblionasium was super cool to work with and I can really see myself optimizing this website in my class. What I liked most about this website was after selecting the book to my shelf I could also click on boxes to indicate that I liked the book, recommended it, make it required reading, and set in the classroom library. This website even gives a book summary for the books I selected and added to my library. I have a classroom wishlist that students can add their own suggested books.  Parents can connect to my website as well, and I can challenge my students with books too. I think with a little more time and practice I could totally have this site used in my classroom or library one day. I like the school community connection and showcases new books or have my favorites listed to see if students would like my choice.

In conclusion, I would recommend Biblionasium and Booklikes to be used and optimize in the classroom, because they offer so much to students and they're very eye-appealing. If I had to chose only one choice then Biblionasium would be the final choice, and I simply like the idea of students and parents having that access to my book shelf. The classroom wish list may even get filled in with generous donations from parents or the school community. It gives me something to think about while I continue teaching and finishing up my degree.