livelib official site is social network book readers. A site for true book lovers. Huge selection and genre variety of "best gifts". The main page of the site announces new projects and new books. Here you can directly start acquaintance with novelties of the book market, read interviews of fashionable and popular writers and reviews for debut works.

LiveLib official site. Main page

The Books section looks like a bookstore window. Here you will be offered books sorted under the headings "Most Popular Books", "Top 100", "Best Books of the Year", "Screenings" and others. Selecting the book you like, you proceed to a more detailed description of it. You have the opportunity to read an excerpt from the work, buy a paper version of the book, recommend it to friends, write a review and even give it as a gift. As additional information, you are offered information about the volume of the work, a brief plot and links to it on Wikipedia, on the official website and in the contact group. On the left side of the page that opens, you will see popular tags related to this book.

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The "Genres" section reveals the entire genre palette of modern and classical literature. When you click on the name of the section, you will see a list of genres. Having stopped your choice on one of them, you will see a list of books with brief information about them. New works are marked "New". If nothing from the above list interests you, you can find what you need by entering a tag into the query box.

Section "Genres" Romance novels

You can get acquainted with the biography and bibliography of your favorite authors in the "Authors" section. Also here you will receive information about the film adaptation of his works and interesting incidents in his life.

In the book reviews section, you can read reviews. Do not rush to move on to another section for fear of spoilers or a dry scientific approach. Reviews are written by the same users of the site who were impressed by this or that work. After each review there is a button "Add". From the drop-down list, you can choose a quote, a review, or even add a work to the list of what you want to read. You also have the opportunity to start creating your own collection and form a bookshelf. The reviews are very different - both extensive, with detailed analysis, and short (often just a couple of phrases), but, of course, written after careful reading. Whether or not to trust the opinions expressed is your own business. You can choose from the best reviews of the month or of all time, one-of-a-kind reviews, and reviews written by you.

Section "Reviews"

The "Quotes" section contains the most accurate, wise and beautiful sayings of registered users of the site. Here you can find the best selections of quotes for the month and for the entire publication period, divided into thematic categories. Moreover, by removing certain filters in your profile, you can read unformatted quotes, as well as leave your own.

You can get acquainted with the selections of other users of the site in the section of the same name. Your attention is offered both collective and individual selections, as well as recommendations of famous figures in literature and cinema.

The "News" section offers announcements of books that have been published almost recently and have recently become available to the Russian-speaking reader. A detailed intriguing description will certainly convince you to add these books to your list of what you want to read.

Section "News"

The "More" section offers a wide variety of information, ranging from book lovers to publishers and characters. Here you have the opportunity to visit the blogs of readers and authors, go to forums, learn about events.

LiveLib is not designed just for you to passively read books and sluggishly exchange lines with other readers. The resource offers you participation in competitions where you, as an educated reader, can grow culturally. In the "Competitions" section, you will find out what competitions are held, how long they last, and what rewards you can expect.

Section "Competitions"

Above all, however, LiveLib is a social network where communication plays an important role. Therefore, as in any other social network, here you can make interesting acquaintances and exchange impressions and just conduct friendly correspondence, put likes on your favorite books and comments.

A big discovery for me today was the live library LiveLib which I would like to share with my readers.

Many of us set a goal for a year to read a certain number of books (I set myself a bar of 50), but is everything going smoothly on achieving this goal:

• what book to read this week?
• Will I like this book?
• What do other readers think of her?
• did it benefit anyone?
• Is it really worthwhile author?

There are, in fact, many more questions. Therefore, very often we either read not what we would like, or stop reading a book halfway through ...

I have already written about how and when to read books, but LiveLib can add more color to our reading.

I planned to read books in MyLifeOrganized and Evernote

Before I discovered the LiveLib service, I planned to read books in MyLifeOrganized and Evernote (to copy content).

Convenient, structured, but:

• everything is done manually (the task “Read such and such a book” is recorded and, if desired, information about it can be written in notes)
• there is no information about the book - is it worth reading and will it benefit

The result was achieved, but now I understand what exactly LiveLib was not enough for me to achieve the maximum result. And now I will explain why.

Live Library LiveLib

LiveLib (Live Library, Livelib)- Russian-language Internet project, a social network dedicated to literature. The site provides information about books, writers, publishers, libraries. It is one of the most visited portals of Runet in the field of literature

LiveLib is also famous for being the largest structure of reviews of all kinds of books from real readers (as opposed to those that are written by order).

You can get information through a search in any book:

• what is it about
• What do other readers think of her?
• is there any real useful information or just "water"
• is it worth reading or not
• how many people have already read this book and what are the reviews

There are a lot of user ratings on LiveLib for various parameters:

• genre
• auto RU
• novelties

For those who are looking for a new book that they would like to read, finding what they want is as simple as possible.

It seems to me that finding (even if you download for free) a book on the Internet is much easier than finding something you would like to read.

That's just the question "What to read?" LiveLib answers like no other.

In addition to all this, in addition to the web service, the official LiveLib application is available for both Android and iPhone. So there are no restrictions on the use of the library.

Book Challenge 2016 by LiveLib

A very useful and motivating feature is "Book Challenge 2016 by LiveLib".

The challenge is a commitment to read a certain number of books in 2016, which is displayed visually in a beautiful way.

The bid for 200 books is not mine, but someone swung it really cool. If he makes 200 books in a year, honor and praise be to him.

I, as a modest person, swung at 50

You can see in the Book Challenge:

• Do you fit into the schedule of reading the required number of books
• what books have you already read
• which ones you would like to read (you need to tick the appropriate boxes for such books)

You can even have a competition with each other who has read the most books or who can read a certain set of books faster than another. But this is an amateur. I prefer to compete with my former self - I need to read more books than I read last year.

Summing up: Using MyLifeOrganized+LiveLib

For book reading planning, I leave MyLifeOrganized. Only in MLO it is possible to plan "when to read" and "whether I have time to read a book in a week or another period."

I add LiveLib as an add-on that will allow you to choose good and correct books.

I launch the Book Challenge 2016 from LiveLib as an element of monitoring the achievement of the goal of reading a certain number of books per year. But at the same time, I don’t remove the goal in MyLifeOrganized - let them duplicate each other. At least until I decide if I can control the reading of my books in only one service.

And what interesting and useful services do you know that can really help in choosing and reading books?

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Social networks have ceased to be a curiosity and have firmly entered our lives. In addition to "global" networks, more specialized networks have appeared - for professionals or like-minded people with the same interests. These networks include livelib is a social network for book lovers.

To experience all the possibilities that the LiveLib network offers, you need to register. The registration process for LiveLib is quite simple.: you need to enter your email address, create a username and password. All other information is optional. Click Register and you are a LiveLib member.

Where to start? You can start keeping your reading diary - a list of books read. To add a book to the list, click on the Add Book link in your LiveLib profile. Use the search on the site: enter the title or author of the book or ISBN number in the search bar and click Find.

In the search results, click on the plus sign next to the book. You can choose the status of the book (I want to read it, I'm reading it now, I've already read it), the copy you have (paper book, audiobook, e-book), tags (choose from those offered or add your own). You can add personal notes to the book that only you can see, or add it to your favorites list.

If the book you need is not in the list, you can add it to LiveLib yourself. It can be added manually or imported from Ozone. If you decide to add books manually, carefully read the rules for adding books to the site. Please note that if you are new to the site (i.e. just signed up for LiveLib), you cannot add books yet.

You can add reviews to books on LiveLib, rate and comment on reviews of other users. Just treat writing a review responsibly, otherwise it can be sent to the non-format section. If your review, in your opinion, does not pull on a full-fledged review, but is more like a slightly chaotic set of impressions, you can add it to the "Stories" section. You can also add your favorite quotes from books.

But LiveLib not only helps you keep a list of books you read - you can also find something to read here.. The site has ratings of the best books (the most popular books, the rating of the TOP 100 most highly rated books, ratings of the best books by year), lists of book novelties, lists of screened works, as well as lists of books compiled as part of flash mobs, when some LiveLib users recommend others what to read.

Also on the LiveLib website you can find biographies of authors, make selections and "anti-selections" of books (personal and collective). There is a forum for communication, and users with similar interests can be added as friends. LiveLib cooperates with publishers and bookstores, conducts interviews with book authors, organizes various competitions and giveaways of books.

Keep in mind only one thing - you can’t read books online on LiveLib, the site is not an electronic library. You can't buy a book here either. But users will always tell you where you can get this or that book, moreover, in the description of many publications there are links to stores where you can buy books in paper or electronic form.

The motto of the LiveLib project is " We save knowledge!". This is a social network for those who like to read and share their impressions of what they read with like-minded people.

1) read in an organized manner.

many read from time to time, case by case. nothing to do? read. boring? read. but in order to read quickly, it is better to set aside a few hours, set a pomodoro timer and read several times for half an hour with five to ten minute breaks. In this way, you can read a book in 1-2 days.

2) read fast. about it, which time I already write about it.

3) make life more monotonous and boring. (my story)

my life is just like that. I rest a lot and, as a result, I read. sometimes just to fill free time.

if life is interesting, then there will be little time left for reading and blogging (therefore, there is an opinion on tumblr that if a person does not write anything, then his life is getting better, although this is not always the case)

4) get rid of your friends. (my story)

meeting friends takes time, and you have to read, right? therefore a simple truth: there are no friends - there is time, there are books.

5) Take a book with you everywhere.

different situations can come across when there is time to read: a queue, time on the bus, subway ...

6) use e-books and read on your phone.

The phone, I think, is always with a lot of people. in your free time you can read and not it. I, for example, always have a lot of books downloaded to my phone and tablet. yes, of course, the phone has a small and glowing screen, so you can ruin your eyesight. but then you have e-books at your disposal.

7) listen to audiobooks and do needlework.

many books can be found in audio version. and for this it is not at all necessary to buy a subscription or pay for each book separately. you can find audiobooks in telegram, vkontakte, soundcloud and podcasts (there you can still adjust the playback speed, which is very convenient, because audiobooks are very slow).

and if just listening to audiobooks makes you sleepy, then do some needlework or other very background and not in need of a full focus lesson. the main thing is that it relaxes you and takes your hands with your eyes. I usually draw or embroider.

Audiobooks, by the way, are convenient to listen to in transport.

8) track reading.

I don't know if this works for everyone, but it helps me. there is a book call on livelib. I started participating this year. and added my family to it. so my dad began to buy a lot of books and read more+faster.

numbers have a magical effect on people, so seeing how good you are, your brain wants to be even more good, that is, it starts to want to read.

I know there are people who are against reading tracking, but if your goal is to read a lot, then this might help.

9) compete.

in the same direction as the previous point. my dad introduced his friends and acquaintances to the book challenge, and now they are competing to see who has read the most. strange hobby, but it motivates to read.

10) don't stop. (my story)

this point is my mistake.

after reading a book, immediately start reading the next one, enter into a book binge ... yes, it really helps to read faster, but this month, in April, I will stop after reading a book, I will give my brain a rest, I will discuss each book (at least with the most myself), retell it (to myself) and write an essay either in the notebook I bought today on rings, or in a blog. By the way, today I have already written an essay about “Martin Eden” for 9(!) pages. And, I ask you, if anyone has read it, share your impressions, I really want to discuss this book with you.

(P.S. the “my story” paragraphs are not required at all, these are just my personal characteristics)