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Your Wisdom has been permanently increased

I spent the better part of the evening cataloging books I've read. It would have taken less time had I not been concerned with trying to find out when I had actually read the books I listed. Searching through old emails, chat logs, and my own fragmented memory, I was able to get quite a few of them.

I realize, as I enter in hundreds of entries into yet another neat online social gadget, that I am committing even more personal information to the Internet. Though, for one reason or another, I feel that this time spent doing data entry is worthwhile, if only in relation to the sappy lists of favorite movies, quotes, etc. on Facebook and the like. That somehow, with every new book I read, or remember reading, I am somehow imbued with extra points of book-geek street-cred. I must admit: I probably lose cred in other places considering this is how I spent my Friday night.

Also: LibraryThing's privacy policy states that all information, if it ever goes outside of LibraryThing, remains personally unidentifiable. Something that Facebook can't really claim, particularly regarding many of their advertising partnerships.