How many of you use Shelfari?

I have an account with Shelfari.

I use it as a place to post my book reviews (I have about 400 reviews there); I also have an account with Librarything and Goodreads. I am a freelance book reviewer (my blog is at http://www.deadtreesreview.blogspot.com)./

I have an early model Sony e-book reader, not a Kindle.

Like others have said, go for it.

1. Yes, I had a Shelfari account before Amazon bought it.

3. I use it to keep track of the books I've read, the ones I'm planning to read and the books I own.

4. I have the Kindle device.

Since you have a book pubilshed on Amazon, if you join Shelfari you'll get the " Author " badge. ( Something similar to the " top contributor " badge )

It will be on Shelfari and people can get to know it exists since it's new and review it.

I've seen some " Amazon authors " on Shelfari though.

Sign up for it, it's a nice site for bookworms.

1. No.

2. I haven't heard of it until you mentioned it now, but I checked it out and it looks interesting. I might sign up.

3. N/A

4. I have the Kindle app on my Droid, but so far I only use it to download the free books.

I don't want to sound rude nor do I wish any disrespect to emanate from this question, but are you a fairly well-known author? I only ask because surely promotion of any kind can never hurt a writer. I would say go for it and get your book out there in any way possible. It looks like a decent and entertaining site.

Any chance we could know the name of your book so as to check it out? Through a personal message or otherwise?

I've never heard of Shelfari before, nor do I have a Kindle (too poor, XD - library will have to do), but I tried looking for useful sites. Being challenged at anything computer-related, I wouldn't know if they're particularly helpful, but it seems like there's more happy what-an-awesome-new-thing articles on it than others (not necessarily all by customers/users o_o)

This one seems good -

http://www.shelterrific.com/2011/04/25/site-were-p...

The first comment by Ashley seems to have some links to negative reviews on it.

Amm Y!A results for something along the lines of Shelfari -

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&biw=10...

Please excuse the lame searching techniques, but I figure it works with Y!A. :P Maybe I should take a how-to-use-Google class sometime. :p

Good luck. :)

1. I don't have an account but my husband does.

2. Yeah :)

3. He doesn't really use it to discover new stuff that much, but it is kinda good to see what books other people with similar tastes like. He mostly uses it to record and 'tick off' stuff he wants to read. And a bit of general browsing.

4. Nope, no kindles here.

(Personally, I'd go for it - it can't hurt.)

Well, no. I have never actually heard of Shelfari. Nor do I have a Kindle.

So I'm not all that helpful...

But I would like to just answer this so I can say congrats to you, Steven.

So...CONGRATS :D

I've checked out the site, but actually started using www.goodreads.com

But I do agree, that either site can be helpful for book promotion.

I've heard of it a couple of days ago. Not something I'm interested in checking out. I use goodreads and lot of published authors are there, too.

As RunningBear says, it can't hurt to try it out.

I don't have an account and I've never heard of it before now.

I don't own anything like that.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Just try it out see what you think of it, if you don't like it then no harm is done.

1. NO

2. no

3. n/a

4. no

i buy my books from amazon.com or my local bookstore. or i just check them out from the library.