readings list!
I found out about allconsuming.net through some RSS aggregating software, and they have this particularly cool service where you can use their feeds to list books you’re reading (with thumbnails from Amazon.com too). You can also keep track of books you’ve finished, those you’ve purchased but haven’t read and those you’ve given up on (at present, mine are The Art of doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming and Moo by Jane Smiley).
After some struggling with (and subsequently, giving up on — note semi-recurrent theme) making my own SOAP and Perl/PHP and RSS-parsing (their RSS feed of current reads doesn’t give the author nor the picture! boo, suck, etc.) scripts, I used the provided javascript, and just messed about with the CSS. Rather satisfied with the result — it doesn’t render properly in IE for Mac, but who cares.
Anyway now I have my own auto-updatable book list (see right). Yay. Highly recommended.
Must… stop… tweaking… blog.