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[minervasolo]

So LJ is run by bastards, and IJ is eye-bleedingly ugly, and JournalFen is all about the comms. None of these are things that are making my happy right now.

LibraryThing pleases me, though.






It's quite sweet, really. You catalogue your own books, and you can get reccomendations based on them, see how many other people I have them (I am one of only two people to have Roman York, for example, and one of ten and a half thousand to the The Odyssey), read reviews and summaries, and generally just have mutual booksquee. Adding books can be a bit of a pain if, like me, you tend to buy second hand and from British publishers. But you can search by ISBN, which really helps (especially if you persuade Amazon to list everything you've ever purchased from them, which is why my list is mainly made up of course books). They've borrows CSS Zen Garden's idea for a hihgly customisable user interface, too, which is nice ^_^

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I would like to point out that IJ is only eye-bleedingly ugly on its default layout. It has other layout options - not sure how many in total, since they've added more since the last time I looked and have still more in beta testing. I'm also not sure whether you need to have an account with them and be logged in to be able to change the layout.

Either way, the eye-bleeding ugliness is not unchangeable. :D

~Le Frog

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Where in IJ is it? I've logged in with OpenID, so I have access to a certain number of features.

I admit, the clunky phrasing on the site pages wasn't exactly drawing me in, either, and the fact I had javascript turned off left me with the impression that the site was almost impossible to navigate (turning it on revealed that there was, in fact, a menu!). Despite my discovery, it's still not exactly easy to navigate, as evidenced by the fact I really can't work out where you go about changing the site skin.

There's nothing terribly wrong with it, but it's still very primitive. It's annoying, though, because sophistication comes at the cost of, well, 6A, and SUP. I'm more comfortable on JournalFen, as an LJclone, and I don't think I want to start afresh with a journal again. Which is what SUP and co are relying on, but if there's one thing LJ teaches you: dig your heels in, and eventually they'll give up and go away!