Hello! I work here. I also write on the Open Library Blog, and post to the Open Library Twitter account.
Some Favourite Authors
Iris Murdoch, Dorothy Parker, Roald Dahl, Sylvia Plath, Jeffrey Eugenides, J.R.R. Tolkien, Janet Frame, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter, Brothers Grimm, Douglas Coupland, Peter Carey, Hubert Selby, Martin Amis, Aimee Bender and Alain de Botton.
Some Favourite Books
The Magic Faraway Tree, Amelia Bedelia, Sula, The Colour Purple, The Very Long Dog, In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot, The Odyssey, Girlfriend in a Coma, The Lovely Bones, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams.
Some Favourite Bookshops
San Francisco: Phoenix Books / Dog-Eared Books - http://www.dogearedbooks.com, William Stout Architectural Books - www.stoutbooks.com
, Green Apple Books - www.greenapplebooks.com
, Adobe Books - adobebooksbackroomgallery.blogspot.com
Adelaide: Imprints - www.imprints.com.au
Melbourne: Readings - www.readings.com.au
New York City: Strand Books - www.strandbooks.com
Other bookish websites I like
I've started a group on Flickr called Open Library, where any Flickr peeps who've ever taken a photo of a book they're reading can upload their pics as covers on Open Library. Please feel free to contribute a photo, or join the dots by uploading photos in the pool to pages on OL.
I use a site called All Consuming to keep track of what I'm reading at any one time:
Reading Log
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Canon
13 items | Last modified October 12, 2011Reading semi-random things for a talk at University of Minnesota about their Humanities 2.0 stuff.
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Workless Editions
9 items | Last modified June 22, 2011For Edward as he improves the Open Library workfinder.
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About Book Lovers
15 items | Last modified January 5, 2011Researching books as social objects for a presentation I'll be giving at the 2011 Microsoft Social Computing Symposium in New York.