What is AboutRead?

Public libraries have been playing an important role along our reading journey. There are about 150 million titles in 10,000 public libraries in United States and Canada. Whether we can make good use of such a great resource depends on if we can find the right books to read. However, most libraries do not provide book reviews on their website, which makes book borrowing process very time consuming.

Even though borrowing books from local library is free, it's still disappointing when you find that the books you borrowed are not so interesting. Therefore, most library visitors may visit websites, for instance Amazon.com, to get information about book reviews, recommendation or best seller lists to have an idea which book they want to borrow. Then they perform library catalogue search to see if the books they are interested are available in their local libraries. This book search process needs several switches from different websites.

Aboutread.com is designed to help library visitors borrow great books in a simplest way by gluing all the information including book reviews, popular lists, award winning titles, local library catalog search on one page. With one click you will find the book you want to borrow from your local library. The coolest feature of Aboutread.com is that it can automatically detect your local library and thus there is no need to input your library information. Currently, the registered libraries in Aboutread covers 95% population in the United States and Canada. However, if you find that your local library is not registered, please contact Link2Library.

Another important feature of Aboutread is that you can organize your readings to different online book shelve. For instance, you can add the books you owned to the ‘for sale’ book shelf, people in your community might want to buy them. Or you can add the books you already read to a book shelf in case you want to read them again later.

The founders of Aboutread believe that a good book can change a man’s life like a good friend does. We wish that Aboutread would become a useful tool along your reading journey.