Facebook rocks with Books iRead

Are you a fan of LibraryThing? Are you tired of keeping track of half a dozen little slips of paper with books you want to read?

If you answered yes to either of these questions, you might want to check out Facebook's Books iRead application. With Books iRead, not only can you build your library online, you can EASILY sort and organize your library around books you want to read, books you're currently reading, books you've read, books you own, and personal favorites. You can also recommend books to other friends on Facebook with one click, write online reviews, review lists of customized recommendations based on your favorites, and check out all your friends' favorites and reviews. Just brainstorming... you can even use iRead for finding read-alikes. For example, I put in M. John Harrison, and it recommended a similar writer of post-cyberpunk speculative fiction, China Mieville (both, as it happens, purveyors of what Martha Bayley at her recent Science Fiction Readers Advisory called The New Weird). How cool is that?

For those of you still hesitating to join Facebook, hesitate no more. The Books iRead application alone is worth the price of admission, a real must for bookophiles. Oh, and yeah, there IS no price of admission. Facebook is free.