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ANobii

URL	www.aNobii.com
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Catalog and community
Registration	Free

aNobii is a social networking site targeted to worldwide booklovers. The idea behind aNobii is simple: create an online platform for avid-readers to share reviews, recommendations, and most important of all, find other similar-taste booklovers.

Privately launched in August 2005, aNobii is among the earliest Web 2.0 sites in Hong Kong. However, aNobii soon grew beyond Hong Kong and now it has a sizable international following with over 400,000 members. The web site is available in 16 languages, with data of over 12 million books. It is the market leader in Italy, Spain, Taiwan and Hong Kong..

Lately, aNobii has also developed iPhone App version for iPhone users. It has basically most features which can be found in aNobii site.

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• Cataloging: A user can build a virtual bookshelf by entering ISBN code or the book title, and can also import book lists from a LibraryThing account, Amazon account, Excel Spreadsheet or a list from anywhere (a blog for example). Users can add details to the books on their shelves such as the date(s) read or whether the book is Unfinished or Abandoned, place obtained (library, bookstore, online bookstore, friend’s house…), and rating on a 4-star scale. They can also make notes to themselves or write public comments about the books.
• Wish list: Users can explore others’ shelves and add the books they want to read to their wish lists.
• Margin notes: Users can make margin notes on each page, which is quite useful when the books are used as references.
• Due date alert: For books borrowed from libraries, users can activate the due date alert function. An email will be sent to their mailbox before the due date.
• Buy/Trade/Swap/Lending: Users can trade, swap or lend the books they own. For every book the user is willing to trade s/he can set a price or post a note to a willing participant. They can also enter details of the transaction such as to whom the book is lent and when they want it back. Users can buy books online by following the links to Amazon.com as well.
• Similar shelves: aNobii will automatically select similar ’shelves’ for users. Users can distinguish how similar their shelves have to be in the settings section. When a user finds a person with books s/he likes, s/he can keep track of their shelf onsite, via RSS or even by an email.
• Discussion: Each book’s page will have descriptions and comments. A voting system keeps the most useful or interesting comments at the top. A user's rating and comments about a book can be viewed on that book's page and on the user's shelf. Users can start a discussion on aNobii’s forum directly from a book or message a user directly.
• Shelf stats: Summarize user’s reading history including number of books and pages they have finished; also displays the recent visitors to their shelves.

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

• Ming Pao (2007-07-09). "Web 2.0 'Made in Hong Kong'". http://www.mingpaovan.com/htm/News/20070709/wa1h.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-31. 
• Hong Kong Economic Times (2007-06-27). "Virtual Bookshelf in Hong Kong Impresses Bookworms of the Whole World". p. A35. 
• South China Morning Post (2007-08-02). "Shelf absorbed". pp. CITY5. 

[edit] External links

• aNobii official site