Anobium Punctatum is the technical name for bookworms, which is a bit of trivia you might never get around to use, but it will let you get some insight as to why the people at aNobii.com have christened their site thus.
aNobii.com is a community of readers from around the world, which have personal shelves (site jargon for profiles detailing what one has read and/or is planning to), to which they add or subtract titles from the catalogue of almost four million books in 20+ western and Asian languages. In order to start using this site’s services, you need to create a profile and after that upload your books, which you can handpick by imputing ISBN numbers or titles, or import from other web sources like blogs or Amazon wishlists. In each user’s profile, the books are sorted out into stage of reading (unread, reading, finished, abandoned) or by use (reference). The feature available from this site don’t differ too much from any other social network: you can find who has also read the stuff you have, or use the bookshelf similarity tool, which determines a percentage of similarity based on the presence/absence of a title in the shelf, and the category into which the book is sorted by the shelf owner. When adding a book to your shelf, you will be presented with the book’s general data (title, author, publisher, release date, cover art) plus a summary which you can submit or which others may have before you.
aNobii.com In Their Own Words
“We are a privately-held company committed to building great tools that let like-minded people connect with each other and strike meaningful conversations. We are passionate about building things that work. We are based in Hong Kong island.”
Why aNobii.com It Might Be A Killer
A feature about this site which I found particularly interesting is the social stuff, because users can not only make friends (which is people they already know) and check out what they are reading, but also keep track of users whom they haven’t met whose shelf’s contents might seem interesting, a systems that resembles more to satisfying one’s curiosity than to spying, and which is probably the only sport universally played by English Majors.
Some Questions About aNobii.com
aNobii.com presents a complete chart with the internet marketprice of the titles which are in any user’s shelf, which is a good thing, as one is inclined to think that is a way of encouraging people to respect copyright laws, but it is also true that the site should probably include links to short stories, chapter excerpts or individual poems, whether they are public domain, or reprinted with the permission of the editor. 
