Goodreads or Shelfari

Goodreads is an easy website to navigate. I signed up for it approximately a month ago and have not had any difficulty finding my way around the website. It is easy to set up your account. I used a gmail account to sign up for Goodreads and noticed that the tutorial did as well. I believe that any type of email will work (yahoo, facebook, hotmail, etc.) but I'm not completely sure. Do alternate emails, besides gmail, work?

I also found a helpful website for people who are new to Goodreads.

http://www.goodreads.com/help/list 

This website can help you navigate through Goodreads if you are having difficulty doing so or answer questions such as: how do you block people? why give out your address? etc.

My favorite function about Goodreads is the recommendation of books it gives you after you rate 20 books. I rated a couple of my favorite and it actual recommended a lot of books that I had already read and enjoyed. I would recommend using this website.

Mrs. Fried is having a giveaway of her book "Nellocott Is My Darling." The entries will be closing in 22 days (February 27, 2013). She is giving away 10 copies of her book. 263 people have entered to win! Only 10 will come out successful. Go enter to win her book (I did).

I like the book selves that say "books I wouldn't admit reading." That's the only creative bookshelf name I saw so far.

Shelfari is a website that is powered by Amazon. This website might be helpful to you if you have an Amazon account. If you do not have an Amazon account then they will ask you to create one before you can sign up for Shelfari.

I like the layout of Shelfari as far as website design. I just had an easier time navigating through Goodreads.

Overall, I believe that Goodreads is more user friendly. They only ask for your email and a password to sign up. Shelfari asks for an email, password, and for you to create an amazon account. Goodreads also offers a lot of clubs that you can join and groups that encourage reading and writing. I would recommend both, but I would suggest Goodreads to new users.