I'm doing the 7-day trial. Trying to figure out how useful it is. I'm curious about others' experiences, do you use it a lot? Also, that "book spaces" thing - do you use it to literally keep track of what shelf it's on? I was thinking of spaces as a metaphorical thing (more like a category listing) until I saw the example page was all about bookshelves.

Aospovat,

     I did the 7 day trial and then joined for a year.  I keep my journal private because it is just for me.  I wanted to see if by writing some things out, I would remember books that I've read better.  I'm so bad to forget a book about two books later.  I think that it is helping.

     I use the book spaces literally.  My spaces are something like this:  sack for PBS listings, books to go to Cindy (a friend that swaps with me before we list them back on PBS); books to go back to Cindy; shelves in study.  I'm not sure that I need to do that because I pretty much know where they all are, but I might forget.

I've been using it since October.  I like it.  I used to try to keep a reader's journal, but it wasn't "handy". 

I like using the journal to keep a tally of books read, and it also gives me an idea what my "trends" are.

I like having all of my TBR books listed, also.

somone was telling me that they use it for insurance records of all their books. I use mine to keep slightly organized!

Nope  :)

OK, so journals can be public or private ... if some are public, where can I find them? I don't see a way to read other people's journals.