Have you ever thought of Goodreads bookshelves as a window into your mind?
Do you do Goodreads? I’ve found that it can be a useful place for discovering new authors who write in genres you like. And you can keep track of authors you already read. For example, when I heard the other day that Michael Pollan was almost due to release a new title, Cooked, I put it on my Goodreads “to-read” shelf. I suppose it’s like an Amazon wish list, except only for books.
Only it just occurred to me that my Goodreads shelves are open for public viewing and, in a way, they feel more revealing than a hundred Facebook photos. You can shelve books you’ve already read, which you can rate as well, and even review if you want to, and you can shelve books you want to read, like I did with Pollan’s Cooked. And then someone can come along and look through your shelves. It’s like giving them a look into your brain, for on those shelves are the ideas, the knowledge that you’ve consumed.
Or at least they are the ideas, the knowledge that you claim to have consumed.
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