Early this year I was look­ing for an online book­shelf to man­age my books. It had to be online so that I could access it at a whim from every­where. I did some research and I dis­cov­ered Shel­fari which I’ve been using for almost a year now. Since then Shel­fari has come a long way. The folks over there did an awe­some job and I’m glad to have found the site. I’m using it quite fre­quently these days – though I have yet to add all my books – and I thought it’s time to praise the service.

Shel­fari fea­tures an appeal­ing design and is very easy to use, as long as you don’t use the more sophis­ti­cated func­tions. Search­ing for books is very easy and you can do so by title, author name, or ISBN. Since they have access to Amazon’s data­base your searches only rarely come up with noth­ing. After you found a spe­cific book you can add it to your per­sonal library with a sim­ple click. Addi­tion­ally, you can pro­vide some infor­ma­tion on the book, e. g., whether you own the book or not, how much it cost you, your review, tags, and so on. Some of the addi­tional infor­ma­tion is pri­vate and only you can see it. Read more…