A poor start to the week. After wasting quite some time trying to figure out not just how to use RSS feeds, but why on earth I might want to, I have decided to move on and return to RSS when I am feeling more positive.
And so to LibraryThing. This is a fun place to be - here are my books. The first book I added to my Library probably neatly sums up my feelings about LibraryThing, Flickr, Picasa and RSS Feeds.
It's taken a book about one of my passions, patchwork and quilting, to introduce me to some of the concepts of Zen Buddhism. The author relates creating quilts to understanding Buddhism's Eight Keys to Happiness. One of those keys is "right purpose". "If your purpose for making a quilt, or your purpose for doing anything for that matter, is clear to you, it's easier to commit yourself to the task."
I can see the value in all these sites and I appreciate the opportunity to learn about them because the day may come when they serve the right purpose for me. Because I love having books, reading them, talking about them, sharing them I might come back to LibraryThing sooner. It was certainly easy to join, fairly intuitive to use and fun to play around on - but then so too is the Book Club I belong to.
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