Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. The feature was created because they are particularly fond of lists over at The Broke and the Bookish. They'd love to share their lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!
Each week they will post a new top ten list that one of our bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All they ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.
Top Ten Bookish Websites/Organizations/Apps, etc. (aside from book blogs):
1. Goodreads - Seriously...can you think of a better way to compile all the books you've read, should read, want to read, must read, yadda yadda? I can't.
2. Netgalley - It's like the Netflix of books, only better. You can get eARCs of some of your favourite upcoming titles if you meet the publisher's criteria, and it's amazing with an e-reader.
3. Galley Grab - Simon & Schuster is made of genius. Providing eARCs of some amazing upcoming titles, it's another great way to snag the books you're dying to read.
4. Random Buzzers - It's a little bit like social networking with books. It's a great place to put your reviews, participate in fun quizzes and challenges, etc.
5. Shelf Awareness - This newsletter is amazing. First, you have great articles about anything bookish you could possibly want AND you could (possibly) snag a galley or two.
6. YAlit - Want a compiled list of some of the most amazing upcoming and past titles featuring links, publishers, release dates and more? This is an excellent source.
7. IndieBound - I'm a huge fan of independent book stores and those little places with tons of character that sell books in your town. Want to find a smaller retailer and encourage others to go indie? This is for you.
8. The Book Depository - If you don't know about this site, I feel really, really sorry for you. And you should check it out. Stat.
9. Book Cover Archive - Are you a cover slut like me? This is like porn candy for us. Trust me. Drool at your own risk.
10. Blippr - 160 character reviews of your favourite books (and more) PLUS you can connect it to your other social networking platforms. Win-win situation, folks!
A list every book blogger should know by heart - thanks Melissa! I am relatively new to this business so every link helps!
ReplyDeleteI love love Goodreads :D Oh and bookdepo is the best place in the world. In your face amazon
ReplyDeleteSome new booksites, thank you!!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely agree with Goodreads, Netgalley, Book Depository and Shelf Awareness!! I would have liked galley grab a bit more if it had Kindle support.
ReplyDeleteGreat list and a couple I will have to check out. Thanks for the info!
ReplyDeleteIf Goodreads and Book Depository are men, they are both going to be my boyfriend :P (Woops, two boyfriend, how greedy am I?!)
ReplyDeleteVery good list you got there plus some that I have never really heard of before!
Goodreads, Galleygrab, Netgalley and Book Depository are my faves too. The rest I haven't heard of so will have to check them out :)
ReplyDeleteI had never even heard of goodreads until I started blogging. How insane does that sound?! Now it's my personal online-library-all-things-resource.
ReplyDeleteI love the IndieBound Next lists. Goodreads is where I track all of my books. I haven't heard of Blippr. I'm going to look it up.
ReplyDeleteI love all of these sites! Some of them I never heard of but I will have to sign up for them!
ReplyDeleteYALit will be very useful to me! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteSome of my favourites on there and a couple I haven't checked out yet. Yay!
ReplyDeleteOmigod, wait, there's a BOOK COVER ARCHIVE? *goes to check it out*
ReplyDeleteAwesome list! I definitely love all the sites you mentioned!
Awesome list! Thanks so much for posting it, I'd never heard of many of these, now love them!
ReplyDeleteI think you'd like What Do I Read Next that automates book recommendations for you.
http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/
Ok, the book cover archive thing is really cool. New time waster! Love your list.
ReplyDeleteOooo never heard of Blippr, definitely going to check that one out! Galley Grab is awesome, I just wish they would make it so you could read them on the Kindle, it's hard to keep reading them on a computer, but I can't really complain because at least their available:)
ReplyDeleteThis is a great list! I would have to add in Shelfari. Although it's not exactly a great resource (we can get what we need from goodreads easier) it's a great place to network and it was what introduced me to the whole online book scene in the first place (several years ago) and where I met many of the online friends I'm friends with today.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I knew about YAlit!! Thanks so much Melissa - love this week's TTT!
ReplyDeleteOoO great links. Thanks. I was wondering how some people got so many arcs *off to go look at the links now*
ReplyDeleteGreat list! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWow, I didn't know about quite a few of those sights, so thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI have a confession - I'm sort of scared to join goodreads. Half the reviews I check out there seem to have some sort argument going on in the comments and that's intimidating to me.
NetGalley definitely tops my list! It's totally addicting though. I'm a member of GalleyGrab but rarely get request to review books :( Oh well! Love Goodreads! I must check out Book Cover Archive.
ReplyDeleteI officially love you. I say that a lot and I'm finding that the longer I book blog, the longer the list of complete but book loving strangers, I have declared undying love to.
ReplyDeleteYou are one of them. Your list has saved my life (I kept wondering how you guys stay on top of this stuff by just word of mouth. I knew there had to be sites but I had no idea which ones and I'm too chicken to ask.)
♥ Trish
Just a YA Girl