My friend Sahrah emailed me a link to goodreads (yet another web 2.0) website. After the huge impact of facebook on the world around me, not to mention all those other major web 2.0 websites, goodreads almost seems like yet another site jumping on the bandwagon. There are its pros and cons as usual, but I wonder if this site will really help the book industry? It almost seems like an extended version of Amazon’s ratings and reviews with a little web 2.0 sharing slapped on to it. The reviews are short and sweet which is great but they are listed over page after page and it begins to be overwhelming or rather the effect of those individual reviews are diluted. Each review no longer carries as much weight to help the book because there are just so many on one page.
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The positive thing about goodreads (at least from my standpoint for today) is that I ran across a fantastic cover of one of my favourite books, Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. This was the Centennial Edition. I am almost almost encouraged to buy it. So close to clicking on the buy button, but why stop? What stops me?
I already have a great hardcover edition with illustrations from Readers Digest. Otherwise, I’d love to pick this one up. Great illustration and use of colours here. Not so sure about the typeface for the title, but it’s decent.
