Bibliophil does have an export feature -- I haven't tried it since last year so I don't know if it's still functioning. It will export your titles, authors, date read and ratings (but NOT your book reviews) to an Excel spreadsheet that you can then save on your own computer. At least, that's how I understand it (my computer knowledge has some serious gaps). I keep an ink-and-paper reading notebook as back up, so I don't really need the Excel document. Now if the spreadsheet came with my book reviews, I'd be much more interested in having it.

For a while I was addicted to answering the Trivia questions at goodreads. But after forty-three jillion questions about the Harry Potter and Twilight books, my enthusiasm waned. I started skipping those questions, not realizing that when I did it was bringing my average down. I contributed several questions of my own and it was fun to create them, but the feedback was not good: it seems that many thought my questions were about too obscure books and were difficult, very difficult, or really really difficult. One of my questions is about the setting of Joe David Brown's novel Paper Moon: Was it set in Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, or Missouri? The answer is Alabama because I am referring to the book -- after all it's a trivia quiz at a book-reading site -- but most people choose Kansas because they have only seen the film where the setting was changed to that state. I knew it was a bit of a trick question, but I didn't know that people could get so irate when tricked! Then I learned that some participants have learned a way to cheat, and that's how they can answer 20,000 questions (roughly) with 99% accuracy. Sheesh! I gave up. I also liked the group "What's the Name of That Book?" -- at first. I was able to identify nine or ten books for people and it thrilled me that I could help and the queriers were pleased. However, I have gotten very little response to my own queries. I guess that once again it's the too-obscure thing. Most of the questions seem to me to be about fantasy/sci-fi/romance and YA titles -- genres that I know very little about but are obviously the most popular. Every site has its good and bad points. I was quite thrilled with goodreads in the beginning; but once the newness wore off, I began to go days and weeks and months without visiting it. I haven't yet got my library fully catalogued, and it's in a state of chaos -- unlike Pam's neatly tagged and well-reviewed library -- so I won't provide a link so you all can view it until I make it presentable. :-) I'd still say, though, that goodreads' good points outweigh its bad. Well, after I tell you all that you can't see my goodreads library, I remember that I keep running up against that very thing, "Private" libraries, at goodreads; and it quite irks me! I'm guilty of hypocrisy. I understand that some folk may have books that they don't want others to know about it; or they make their libraries private so they won't get unsolicited comments and friendship requests; or, like me, their catalogue is a work in progress; or maybe they're just shy...I don't know. But I like to look at other people's libraries and I'm disappointed when I can't. And when I read a review that impresses me, I like to look up that person's library; so when I hit that stone wall that says "Private," I sigh.

cool! thanks for all of your feedback. We've added the multiple dates read feature. There are some tiny bugs to iron out. I'm also gonna add a way to add the same book more than once. This way you can have different reviews and ratings for the same book if you want. This would be a bit different from multiple dates read, since the review will be tied to multiple dates in the first instance. And, to answer jwttrans' feedback, yes - the no ISBN issue is a big one. And that is (at this point) the next top priority! Allow to enter a book without an ISBN.

Just had our first book club meeting after summer hiatus; books discussed were Go Set a Watchman and To Kill a Mockingbird. Of the 9 present, 8 rated GSAW 'meh'. One HATED it. I was that one...IMO it was not a book. It was a very early, very very very badly written mess of an idea that was read by a genius editor who spotted a nugget of gold in the childhood reminiscences and managed to wrestle Harper Lee into pulling together TKAM. By all accounts Lee (very rightly) never wanted Watchman published. Frankly, after reading both books I suspect Harper Lee never wrote another book because Mockingbird was more or less a heaven sent combination of editing and one Big Idea, and I doubt she was capable of creating anything else. Anyway, now she is blind, deaf and has dementia. Her sister Alice, a sharp and protective woman (a lawyer herself). who watched over Harper Lee died last year and suddenly two months later her now-fully-in-control attorney discovers and sells the new book for publication. I call bu**sh*t on the whole thing. It isn't a book, just a cash grab and it should never have seen the light of day. Actually reminded me of when I attempted to read Fifty Shades of Grey. I can handle off-putting themes, I can handle unsympathetic characters. But I can't handle bad writing and in both cases, the writing was so execrable I simply couldn't hear anything else. I mean, 'the musky smell of clean Negroes'...I can't even.