Library Thing was my first book website and I left it about three years ago due to the smugness and literary snobbishness of the users and owners/staff.
I am so far behind on LM account updates, but with one of the founding members leaving I don't see much incentive to get going on those updates. BL is enough work as it is.
My incentive for hanging in on Leafmarks is some of the promised updates, particularly with series and the bookclubs. At least it does have a way to export your book data to a backup file if the worst happens.
And I'm hanging in there a really long time because of the already in place controls on things like privacy, images, options like choosing to mark a post as mature content ... choices, choices, options, choices, privacy, choices, filters ... all the control a reader has is still better than every other site I tried. The seeming lack of recent activity by remaining founder is disturbing me and I wish they'd go ahead and let everyone add books because currently I get the impression the majority of the librarians actively making edits are fanfiction readers who became librarians to add their fanficiton. (Not opposed to anyone tracking whatever reading they are doing -- just strange to have that a qualification for access to edit the book database and they fricking mostly refuse to keep the url info in the url field).
I know, all brand new or newly growing book sites are always full of updates and listening to new member requests and then it slows. If Leafmarks stays slow next year, I'll have some decisions to make. If Leafmarks makes promised updates and gets more active -- particularly if series features like next book in series and expanding the group features where they can compete with goodreads groups -- they will easily become my main book site. And I don't even have anything kept private or avoid mature content -- I just like that readers get to choose whatever settings they prefer.
I am so far behind on LM account updates, but with one of the founding members leaving I don't see much incentive to get going on those updates. BL is enough work as it is.
And I'm hanging in there a really long time because of the already in place controls on things like privacy, images, options like choosing to mark a post as mature content ... choices, choices, options, choices, privacy, choices, filters ... all the control a reader has is still better than every other site I tried. The seeming lack of recent activity by remaining founder is disturbing me and I wish they'd go ahead and let everyone add books because currently I get the impression the majority of the librarians actively making edits are fanfiction readers who became librarians to add their fanficiton. (Not opposed to anyone tracking whatever reading they are doing -- just strange to have that a qualification for access to edit the book database and they fricking mostly refuse to keep the url info in the url field).
I know, all brand new or newly growing book sites are always full of updates and listening to new member requests and then it slows. If Leafmarks stays slow next year, I'll have some decisions to make. If Leafmarks makes promised updates and gets more active -- particularly if series features like next book in series and expanding the group features where they can compete with goodreads groups -- they will easily become my main book site. And I don't even have anything kept private or avoid mature content -- I just like that readers get to choose whatever settings they prefer.