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Bookcrossing - share books via this famous community - register the book, and leave it to be picked up locally at a park, coffee shop or anywhere you purposely leave it. You can also hold a library of books read onsite for yourself.

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Huge writer's site with Writer of the Month, forums, articles, journals, poetry, interaction. Publishing Days are Mondays and Fridays.

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FanStory is an online community featuring publications of writing work, reviews, user rankings and contests. The home page has featured poems, stories and highly ranked poems and stories from the community members.

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Noovo has just come out of private beta. It works as a lifestreaming blogging aggregator. Add bookmarks, video, audio, text, quotes, clips, images - everything. Also use the Noovo technology to get recommendations for more content on your interest topic.

More features than Tumblr, however slightly harder to use.

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Ning allows users to create their own social network, complete with many tools including forums, user homepages, invite emails, badges, comments, and colloboration. Free.

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authonomy is a website from HarperCollins which promises some interesting dynamics. Part social network, part self-publishing (on the net), the site is setup to let authors publish their manuscripts onto the web, and have these rated by, commented on and read by the authonomy community.

Top rated or supported books are promised that in the future HarperCollins wants to look at these for possible publishing. The site also contains top ranked books on the frontpage, and an active forum.

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Bookcrossing has a unique way of sharing books - it's users leave their old books on park benches, coffee shops etc. But the site itself also offers a community to discuss books, authors and characters.

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Reader Squared - catalgue, tag, find friends, discuss books and authors.

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Wordie (pronounced wurd-e) calls itself "Like Flickr, but without the photos."\nIn Wordie you can make yourself lists of words and phrases, and these are visible to all other wordies. The words can then be discussed. \n\nThere is a random word, a mobile version, and a supporting blog. Words displayed have options to go lookup at various websites such as wikipedia or amazon, and there is an image search also. You can register to leave a comment against the word also.

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BookMooch - exchange books.

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