If you haven't gotten your fill yet on the book social network or maybe you've outgrown www.shelfari.com, www.goodreads.com, www.librarything.com, www.booksprouts.com, www.readingtrails.com and the rest of the gang then here are some latecomers to the crowd:


filedby.com - Is a book community focused around authors and authors get really nice profile pages, however premium pages aren't free and as we know 'not free' isn't very cool in the web world. Yet they've got some publishers behind them and also offer less known authors a chance to really promote themselves. One drawback I found however, is when you sign up as a reader there is no way to import your book list but they're currently in public beta so let's hope they take care of that.
You can read the full press release here

shortcovers.com/ - This site is multifaceted and really well integrated, you can buy books, enjoy the book community, and also access snippets, reviews and more from your mobile or ereader as well as your desktop.
You can download the app here: shortcovers.com/mobile

Sadly, www.lookybook.com, closed its doors to the economy and in www.schoollibraryjournal.com, it's noted, "“We were fraught with the perfect storm of issues,” says cofounder Craig Frazier, also the author and illustrator of the "Stanley" series (Chronicle) of picture books for children. “While we had seed money to get started, it became difficult in this environment to get money. It would take an angel coming out of the woodwork to step up and reverse Lookybook's closure."

"If clicks were cash, however, the site, which opened its virtual doors in November 2007, may have flourished. It was attracting 55,000 users a month before shuttering, along with 14,000 subscribers, who used the site to peruse the roughly 550 children’s books, some of them decades old; share their favorites; store them on a virtual book shelf; and, of course, buy them from publishers."

and speaking of the economy and angels, I came across this site: www.jobangels.org earlier in the week and I am paying it forward.

I'm not sure what happened but I got this in my email tonight:

Regrettably, we have come to the last page in our adventure together. Thank you for your enthusiasm, support, and patronage.There’s a brand new frontier ahead. Please continue to support the creators and publishers of fine children’s picture books by exploring all the new and inventive ways they will be brought to you.

Lookybook CEO/Founder

Some of you may remember that Lookybook was a fantastic UK-based book community built around children's picture books that you could interactively flip through.

Today being International Women's Day I wanted to bring attention to a very special book: My Little Red Book By Rachel Kauder Nalebuff.



The genius behind the book, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, amazingly was still in high school when the idea of collecting women's stories about getting their period for the first time. Rachel is heading to Yale next year. She is also donating all the proceeds of My Little Red Book to women’s health charities so that it may benefit girls beyond its readers.

"The accounts range from light-hearted (the editor got hers while water skiing in a yellow bathing suit) to heart-stopping (a first period discovered just as one girl was about to be strip-searched by the Nazis). The contributors include well-known women writers (Meg Cabot, Erica Jong, Gloria Steinem, Cecily von Ziegesar), alongside today's teens. And while the authors differ in race, faith, or cultural background, their stories share a common bond: they are all accessible, deeply honest, and highly informative."

I think this is an absolutely phenomenal idea - I mean don't we all have our own story and don't you wish your mom, or grandmother or sister or any other woman had shared hers with you too?

You can browse the book here:





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