What is a Library Thing?

When I first read the title of this assignment I laughed because I thought someone made it up!!!

I mean, what is a "Library Thing?" It sounds like something I would say because I forgot what its called!

It's a social media site for book lovers and allows us to share book collection, review books, maintain reading lists, and chat with users who have similar tastes in literature.

I'm not sure if I would use this site because I normally go onto Amazon.com and read up on the reviews, etc. before buying a book.

I did find the website a bit slow in loading (you remember how I absolutely hate slow things! I know, I need to develop more patience.)

However, I did find the site very user-friendly, it was easy to navigate through and find items. I would say its a good alternative for reviews as well as finding some new reads.....but why wouldn't we use our own calgarypubliclibrary.com website for new reads?

Ummm...hellooooo....am I the only dedicated librarian here?