Book logging services

[deepad]

I've seen a couple of people mention tagging books on LibraryThing with 'Author of Colour' etc, as a way to get recs and make lists.

I don't use LibraryThing because I refuse to pay for a service, but I am on GoodReads and Shelfari, so I was wondering if any of you have a system for organising for either of those. I haven't got into the social

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[copracat]

I am on Goodreads. I haven't started organising but I'm thinking of a poc_author shelf and a poc_character shelf.

A small number of users are using 50books_poc.

I'd also be keen to hear other people organising methods.

[deepad]

Yeah, I was thinking of an 'author of colour' shelf... but I am waiting to hear what the group consensus is.

[seekingferret]

I'm one of those using 50books_poc on Goodreads, not out of any belief that it's the most logical tag but because it struck me as the only tag I'd be sure others here would be using. If something else is better, I can switch.

[deepad]

This is good to know.

I'm not picky about terminology, we could use 'chromatic author' for a consensus, or 'non white or of colour author' or something... I think the essential thing would be to have some kind of agreement between at least most of us on this group how we'd like to tag things so that we know instantly what shelf to look for... yes?

[cacophonesque]

I'm very new to this community, but I am on GoodReads and I've been using a "by-poc" tag.

[dharmavati]

I've bookmarked a GoodReads list of sf/f, romance, or historical fiction by POC authors which I think I found in somebody's RaceFail roundup (or was it at verb_noire? I don't remember), but you can check it out here.

[firecat]

I'm on LibraryThing and Goodreads, and I don't use a label/tag/shelf to identify authors of color, but I would use one if this community reaches an agreement on a label to use.