TeleRead's Fave Books (according to Librarything)

According to the 15 member strong Teleread Librarything group, today the most popular books seem to be:

1. The Longest Night (Angel) by Christopher Golden (2),
2. Believe by William Shatner (2),
3. The Shadow by James Luceno (2),
4. The Eyes of the Shadow by Maxwell Grant (2),
5. Gray Fist (The Shadow, #15) by Maxwell Grant (2),
6. All the Troubles of the World (Creative Classic) by Isaac Asimov (2),
7. Fantastic Four: What Lies Between (Fantastic Four) by Peter David (2),
8. No No Not Rogov! by Cordwainer Smith (2),
9. The Lady Who Sailed the Soul by Cordwainer Smith (2),
10. The Blondefire Genome by Sean McMullen (2)

Of course, the fact that two people own copies of these titles is not statistically significant. But still….William Shatner !? (And to think that I had pigeonholed him for his musical peformances and gameshow performances).

There is a wide gap between what we own and what we actually read. There is also a gap between what we think we read, and what we actually read. Just yesterday, for instance, I started reading the hilarious Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman (read excerpts here). It is a light fun book, but I kept thinking to myself, “I can’t believe I’m reading this! Don’t I have more important things to read?” Similarly, I own some books merely because I am too lazy to throw them away.

Facebook has one or two applications that allow people to share the books they reading (Read Baratunde’s complaints about Facebook applications here). Amazon has reader wishlists and Listomania Lists (which I find incredibly useful; here’s a silly one I compiled).

Book commerce people have become adept at creating recommenders and taste correlators for print books. Wouldn’t it be fun to have an informal way to share ebooks with like-minded people (even if you could only share a chapter)? It’s easy to collect books, harder to digest them. Orhan Pamuk, in an interview with Charlie Rose, says that the memory of having read a book continues to enrich you for the rest of your life. If true, doesn’t that mean in fact that we have no more need to read additional books? Well, maybe no time for William Shatner books anyway.

The final question is: where do you find recommendation for ebooks that were not originally print books? That’s not an easy question. The Wowio new  free ebook feed is fine for the PDF-obsessed. The Project Gutenberg new ebook feed is great for those who like to roll their own ebooks. The Mobileread ebook uploads page gives better-formatted public domain stuff, and their ebook recommendation page offers some places to start out. Readers of genre fiction can usually find recommendations on specialty sites (Mumpsimus and DearAuthor come to mind).

Where do you go for  ebook  recommendations?