LibraryThing
I signed up for LibraryThing to keep tracks of my books. It’s kind of like a Flickr or Facebook for books, if you’re into the social linking aspect.
I like it because it also suggests books based on what you have in your current catalog and what other people who have the same book in their catalog read.
I was hoping that it had a “currently reading” widget that I could add to my sidebar, but they didn’t exactly. I had to fiddle with their existing widget a bit.
edit: I’m retarded. I found a super easy way to implement a “currently reading” feature.
I chose to use their standard weblog widget and chose to display the ‘Recent Books’, but set it to only display the latest one. Then, in the javascript part, I replaced “tag=alltags” with “tags=nowreading”. Then, all I have to do is tag a book I’m reading as ‘nowreading’ and tada, the javascript displays it.
I also chose ‘no style’ instead of a default style-sheet because I wanted to center the book’s cover and put the title on a new line. The CSS I used:
.LTwrapper {padding: 4px; text-align: center;}
.LTitem {font-weight:normal;font-size:9px;}
.LTitem img{display: block; margin: auto}
.LTprovided {font-weight:normal; font-style: italic; font-size:7px;}