The basics: Booklikes went a week or two without responding to anyone about problems, even on Twitter and Facebook, during which time several of us uncovered evidence that the site might have been recently sold (no idea yet who the new owners are or what their plans might be). Now BL occasionally responds to people on Twitter or Facebook but not on their own site. It's worrisome enough that people are preparing for the possibility that the site might suddenly be taken down.
Wasn't this place created so that we didn't have to worry about it being sold, by people that were just as upset with Goodreads and other places being sold? Wow. Figures.
Nope. It was just a not very popular, low-membership book recommendation service that quickly reinvented itself to attract goodreads refugees with a framework then took our suggestions to create what it now is (in the beginning there were requested changes and new features at least every Thursday, what started to be called "Thursday Candy."
Weird -- it took me to mine when I clicked on it to double check. Thanks for letting me know! Could you try with the straight URL to see whether that's any different? http://themisathena.libib.com/
Anyway, my user name on Libib is themisathena. Hopefully it'll at least come out OK if you search by name ...
That takes me to your homepage. Very bizarre. I noticed some links should take me somewhere but take me to my homepage. I got there by cutting and pasting your link, so thank you. Followed you back. (And searching me out is fine. I was just out grocery shopping so I couldn't answer earlier.)
So far, I'm irked by a couple things: it seems hard to socialize - like I can't find reviews of books easily because on your homepage, I have trouble accessing the books by clicking on them and have to look them up individually to see if you've written a review. The linking seems just bizarre to me, and makes it harder that you have to search someone instead of being able to open a link to their homepage - or their visible homepage.
So all in all, I'm having a hard time socializing there at all. Same issue I'm having with Litsy to be honest. (I'm having a hard time socializing on Litsy.)
I haven't posted any reviews on Libib yet -- though obviously now that Leafmarks has announced it's going to shut down as of July 1, I'm going to *have* to get serious about Wordpress and Libib -- probably in combination, to replicate as closely as possible, spread out over two sites, the options that I have here just rolled into one.
Still playing around with it. It seems to be fairly new; Broken Tune has described it as "Twitter for Books", which going by first impressions seems to be pretty accurate. You can post reviews, but you mainly interact via short, Twitter-like posts (140-character limitation and all). Also they don't seem to have a consolidated book database (yet), similar to the situation on BookLikes way back when we all migrated here. I may end up using it as a backup solution for my personal library, but I can't see it replacing the social elements of BookLikes (or even GR or Leafmarks).
I have been playing with it a bit every once in awhile since I saw this. As a place to keep track of the books that I own - and even reviews - this seems like a great place. There are a lot of books that I have had to upload, but it's VERY easy to do, which I like. I agree that it won't be a great way to socialize with friends, but in the way, I do kinda like it.
Libib's social still sucks. But it takes imported data very easily, you are safe from trolls, have great privacy controls (can even have public and private libraries/collections), and it will backup your data.
The pitiful Twitter-style feed ... *sigh* ... they keep promising more social so I keep hanging in. So far, promise unfilled but what the site has works well.
I've resorted to Calibre for the time being. Once I've got my Calibre library in shape, I'll update Libib, probably from scratch. Way too cumbersome trying to amend what's currently there, I've found. (Sigh.)
I lost a lot of friends when GR had its meltdown, because few if any of us had any backup options then. So this time around I'm thinking rather safe than sorry -- even if, as I'm saying in my post, most of the above really *are* just backup options to me, at least for the time being. We'll see what happens. Obviously we all hope for the best, i.e., for BookLikes to stay what it is. But this time around I'm preparing for the worst as well. I don't want to lose that many friends all at once a second time, just because we're all wandering off in different directions in the widths of cyberspace.
Anyway, my user name on Libib is themisathena. Hopefully it'll at least come out OK if you search by name ...
So far, I'm irked by a couple things: it seems hard to socialize - like I can't find reviews of books easily because on your homepage, I have trouble accessing the books by clicking on them and have to look them up individually to see if you've written a review. The linking seems just bizarre to me, and makes it harder that you have to search someone instead of being able to open a link to their homepage - or their visible homepage.
So all in all, I'm having a hard time socializing there at all. Same issue I'm having with Litsy to be honest. (I'm having a hard time socializing on Litsy.)
The pitiful Twitter-style feed ... *sigh* ... they keep promising more social so I keep hanging in. So far, promise unfilled but what the site has works well.