LibraryThing

Here's a web site Husband found in the wee hours last night. It's essentially a catalog of books the site's members own or have read. Based on the data it has, it will make recommendations to you: you type in a book you've read and it will give you other books read by people who've read that one. The really interesting thing is that it will also give you unsuggestions: books that never appear in the libraries of people who've read the book you've typed in. What have I learned?

• Evangelical Christians don't read Umberto Eco.
• Tolkien readers don't like Mary Higgins Clark.
• There are a lot of knitters on LibraryThing, and they don't seem to share my taste in books.
• I am willing to spend 15 minutes (so far) looking at titles and authors of books that don't often appear on shelves next to my favorites.