Track your books with Anobii. Sexy and Simple.

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aNobii is simple and useful book tracking system. I don’t think there is any imaginable feature they have left out.

After a quick registration you select your book shelf language. Add the books you own, either by title or ISBN. It is possible to import book list from other services, but you can also use an excel spreadsheet or a list from anywhere.

When your books are on your ’shelf’ you can start having some fun – checking the status finished, reading, not started or reference, setting tags, origin, …

Reference is an interesting feature. This obviously means you have the book on hand to gather information when required. However, a handy tool within aNobii is the ability to add Margin Notes. Each note can be assigned to any page of the book. This is very useful for reference material.

Rating and tagging for each book is a feature that sets aNobii apart from its competitors.
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Community

For each title you can specify if it’s tradable or not. For every book you are willing to trade you can set a price or a note to a willing participant.

If you’re like me you lend books out a little too much. aNobii have a Lending section for each book that lets you add the person who you’ve lent the title to – if it’s a friend on aNobii they show up automatically.

Tell it when you lent the book and when you want it back. Now set a reminder, if you like, and enter the borrower’s email. No more rogue novels!

Friends

Since we’re looking at a community of bookworms, you want to find like-minded bookworms, right? This is easy.

aNobii will automatically select users who have similar ’shelves’ as you. You can distinguish how similar their shelves have to be in the settings section. When you find a person with books you like, you can keep track of their shelf on-site, via RSS or even by an email.

With a growing database of users, and the ability to specify what location you’re in, making friends to swap books with will be a breeze.

While browsing books, you can add titles to your wish-list, hopefully attracting others to offer swaps and to remember what you have to get.

Discussion

Each book’s page will have descriptions and comments. A voting system keeps only the most useful or interesting comments at the top. Make new ones for each of your books, they will show up at the book’s page with your rating.

You can start a discussion on aNobii’s forum directly from a book or message a user directly. Check out its Amazon info page or Google Books. See what other users have the same book or check more from the author.

Buying

At the bottom of each book’s page is a list of Amazon stores and the book’s price from each. From Japan or the States, which is cheaper? You can even set your currency and which stores you want to show up.

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aNobii is just about perfection when it comes to an online library. It comes out in the details, and after a quick look over you’ll see what I mean.

While there’s always room for improvement, aNobii provides as much of a community library where you can realistically keep track of your collection – privately or publically – as you’ll find anywhere.