Readernaut is a social network for book lovers. Although you may find several other sites that tried to merge the books and reading aspects around the social networking features, the completeness of Readernaut’s offerings are likely the most important thing that make its users to get excited about it.
At first glance, Readernaut bears a strong resemblance to some other book communities such as goodreads, LibraryThing, revish, aNobii, Shelfari, just to name a few. Since book-oriented social networks are not the new things anymore on the Web, we know that all of these are trying to increase the reading-experience of their users as a whole.
At present, you can add the book you’re currently reading, keep track of the pages of book by jotting down the page number, thus a timeline will be generated, or share the reflection about what you read by making a note beneath the book on Readernaut. From the recent notes posted on Readernaut, you can leave your commentary, browse the books and the readers as well as build a network of friends. Not sure it is due to the influence of Twitter, you’ll find the word called “Follower” that is the curious who would like to get the book recommendations from you. To enhance the visual treats of Readernaut, two (2) separate pages that are the “Books” and “Newbies” are being built for this purpose. From there, you’ll get to know the top ten (10) most popular books or the book lovers you would want to follow via the nifty charts. Meanwhile, you also can tag your favorite books on Readernaut.
To create your own book listings, you can search the books from Amazon’s database since Readernaut’s search function is fully integrated with Amazon. From the book search returned by Amazon, you can either add the book in any of your lists such as “Reading,” “Plan to read,” or “Wishlist,” etc. or buy the title straightaway from it. It was on the basis that Readernaut presumably makes the affiliate revenue if you complete the buy.
