bilingual readers
Last night I stumbled across Douban via Book and Sword: Gratitude and Revenge (previously known as Silent Dreams), and what joy! It's a site that you can connect with bookworms + the iPod generation around the world--build up your own connection, click on a book cover and you'd be able to find out who has read it or is in the process of reading the tome. (That's what I would call networking gone mad.) Basically, it's like owning a virtual bookself, without having to sit in Richard and Judy's living room, or going through the pains of assembling a cheap IKEA shelf. I wondered why most readers are based in China, and later found out that this idea was in fact born in Beijing. It would be nice if UK had something similar. The only downside is that some of the book covers are American editions, and do not look like the ones I have bought in England. Oh well. Go and sign up.