Have you ever visited the open library? I never had. I didn’t even know it existed until this past week when one of the speakers at the Utah Library Association conference mentioned it. That said, I am certainly not an expert on it. What caught my attention the most is that it seems to be quite similar to Google Books and it also shares some of the features of other book sites such as Good Reads, Library Thing and Shelfari. The main difference though is that it is like a Google Books where the whole world can add, edit and make changes.

It’s created wiki style as well. I have to say at first glance I am quite impressed and I think everyone should check it out. I will be adding this site to my list of things to take a better look at later.

If you’ve used the open library what do you think of it?