Douban.com seems fascinating. Douban.com is a Chinese book prices comparison website which id combined with the ideas of social bookmarks and tag words. You may consider that it is a del.icio.us for books. User can register a free account, and he or she can add any book into his or her bookmark while others can learn about who had bookmarked this book. You can post and read comments about your favorite books by browsing the tag words, too. Douban.com supports also some cool and interesting functions such as you can put a book list that you recently bookmarked on your weblog sites, and you can even list all the book cover images.

豆瓣這個網站看來有趣。豆瓣是一個結合了社會書籤以及標籤概念的書籍比價網站，您可以將這個網站想像成是針對書籍使用的 del.icio.us。使用者可以免費註冊帳號，然後可以將書本加入到個人書籤當中，也可以知道有那些人將這本書加入了書籤。您也可以對您所喜愛的書籍發表書評，並且閱讀他人所發表的書評，並且以標籤的方式為書籍加上各種標示。豆瓣也提供一些相當酷的功能，例如說您可以在自己的網站上，顯示您最近加入書籤的書籍列表，並且以封面圖像的方式顯示。

I think Douban.com is a good environment to manage cyber communities based on reading. Nowadays bookmarking and tag words seem to be the mainstream of online services, for instance, flickr.com, techorati.com and so on. However, it is surprising that it is Chinese who apply such ideas on books, and moreover I hope that these applications could be applied on not only commercial book prices comparison web sites but also public digital library systems. I hope that such web sites could offer metadata about books in MLA citation style or formatted for citations management applications such as EndNote, too.

我以為豆瓣應該可以成為一個經營閱讀社群的好環境。似乎現在社會性書籤以及標籤概念，已經成為了線上服務的主流，flickr.com、technorai.com 等都是如此。不過，由中國的開發者能夠率先做出這樣的應用，是頂讓人驚奇的，而我個人也希望這樣的應用不僅只是用在商業的比價網站上，也能夠應用在公共的電子圖書館系統上，我也希望這樣與書籍相關的網站也能夠提供關於書本的更多額外相關資料，例如 MLA 引用書目格式，或是可以匯入到 EndNote 之類的書目管理工具中的檔案。