Poetic License

I’m not so impressed with Library Thing. At first, I thought this would be a great way to catalogue books, tag them, post reviews, and share with students and other teachers, but honestly…the execution isn’t so great.  I explored the Library for over an hour and didn’t find it user friendly at all. I tried all the buttons to search including adding some “groups,” but most of the groups were abandoned and the search engine seems persnickety.  I don’t understand why there’s an Amazon Search, a Library of Congress search and over 600 others. Isn’t there an easier way?  Maybe I need a better tutorial, or maybe Library Thing just has some bugs to work out. I wonder what others thing too.  When trying to add “tags” my library addition kept getting deleted. Not user friendly and unless simplified, I think I’ll pass…

I really do like Del.icio.us as a social bookmarking site and got busy searching tags and adding websites to my own list. I found some wonderful sites about YA literature, but by no means a complete list.  I like the fact that my bookmarks can be used from any computer, but wonder if I have to upload the links to Del.icio.us on each computer as I use them.  For instance…I’m on a laptop now and have bookmarked the Post Del.icio.us URL as well as the Del.icio.us website itself.  Do I have to do this again on my computer at school? I’m assuming so.

Here’s a link to my personal list created in less than an hour: Terri’s Del.icio.us list