Week 5: Things 11&12

I think both LibraryThing and Rollyo are really interesting and useful tools. I used LibraryThing to catalog all the books I'm reading for Great Books. I liked that it also told you how many other people were reading that book; I can definitely see which books are going to be the most popular, if they aren't already. I also enjoyed reading the tags other people put on the books, as well as their personal reviews and insights. I think that if I had a large collection of texts, LibraryThing would be a very useful tool in organizing that collection.

Rollyo is a search engine that searches other search engines, but only the ones you WANT it to search. I liked that you could personalize your options, for example if you were looking for an apple pie recipe, you could narrow your responses to those within cooking related search engines. I probably would have used this alot while in college. I'm not sure it would replace "Google," as I'm somewhat conditioned to resort to "Google" initially, but i definitely think I could try this more often now that I know about it. It's also pretty cool that they don't make you sign up before you can use the service.