Anobii . It is a social network for readers . It allows you to rate the books you finish, link them to the review , add books to the wish list or to be read and find other readers whose shelves are similar, or not, to yours, in short, you can share the readings, comment on them and look for them.
Whose rare name comes from the Latin , is an abbreviation of “common furniture beetle” or what in plain language becomes the woodworm , one of the tenants favorite of the libraries that together with fingerlings of silver and some types of beetles enjoy consuming large amounts of paper and digging mazes in the leather of the covers.
Summary
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- 1 History
- 2 Characteristics of Anobii
- 3 Advantages, disadvantages and recommendations of Anobii
- 4 Sources
- 5 External Links
History
Anobii
It began its adventures in 2006 , it emerged with the intention of facilitating the bonding between people who share tastes and love of reading. Its users can organize their favorite titles according to “shelves” and categories, in addition to qualify such books with points, add comments, make recommendations and meet members of the same social network who share their literary tastes.
The company was acquired in 2010 by a fledgling British company made up of investors led by HMV Group . Publishers such as HarperCollins , The Random House, and Penguin also support Anobii today.
Anobii Features
- It is available in Spanish
- It allows the user to regenerate the database of the social network and allows him to include new news or modify incorrect data.
- You have the option to share the shelf updates on Facebook and Twitter .
- You have a gadget to add to your personal website or blog .
- It has an App for iPhone and Android .
- It allows importing and exporting a list in Excel , HTML and CSV format with all the books.
- Its search engine is useful for finding both works and readers.
- It includes a tool to create reading groups, book clubs and discussion forums .
- It constitutes a very good learning tool if its contributions are considered as PLE: user compendium, applications that make it possible to share and discuss content and access from any device.
Advantages, disadvantages and recommendations of Anobii
Disadvantages
- Difficulty to include new books and that does not allow to include books without ISBN (some from Amazon for example).
- It only allows adding volumes with ISBNs, a fact that not all books have.
- The approval of new developments or the modification of incorrect data take a long time, we speak of months, to validate those changes.
recommendations
- Recommended for managing personal libraries in a comfortable way, keeping track of readings and statistics, cataloging books, etc.
