Tuesday, August 21, 2007

LibraryThing What is LibraryThing? Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things. Go ahead and take the tour. What's good? Meet the world's largest book club. Find people with eerily similar tastes. Catalog with Amazon, the Library of Congress or 82 other world libraries. Import from anywhere. Get recommendations. Tag your books and explore others' tags. Put your books on your blog. Enter 200 books for free, as many as you like for $10 (year) or $25 (life). 11:42:49 AM     Soil Survey Maps Available Online (From the Red Tape Blog): Soil survey maps have long been printed and bound into soil survey books free for the asking at local USDA Service Centers, NRCS field offices and public libraries. But they’re being slowly phased out. That’s because, starting today, the USDA Web Soil Survey site will provide secure public access to the national soils information system. Currently, NRCS has soils maps and data available online for more than 95% of the nation’s counties and expects to have data for 100% of counties in the near future. The new site will be updated and maintained online as the single authoritative source of soil survey information, USDA says. 11:38:02 AM     Book Reviews from Investigate Some Good Books participants Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory: Philippa Gregory never fails to impress. She shows us the struggle and faith of a young girl of Spain who was destined to become one of England's greatest queens. Forest Mage by Robin Hobb: A story that is mediocre. Too long and too solemn. Robin Hobb has turned what could have been an exceptional tale into something stale and tasteless. 11:30:34 AM

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