Making Use of Goodreads

I'm a big fan of Goodreads, the social networking website that focuses on books: what you're reading, what you've read, reviews and recommendations, etc. I even have a fair number of books marked and rated on my virtual bookshelf, thanks to a friendly competition several years ago with Steve Diamond when we raced each other to post as many book ratings as possible; I won, but he's read (and rated) many more books than I have in the time since.

And that, dear reader, is the issue at hand: it...