Buying More Rollins Books

The Power Plant's been having a 3-day sale. So I took the opportunity to go to Fully Booked and buy the James Rollins' books that I've been waiting to go on sale. They're actually old books -- way before the Sigma Force series started with Map of Bones. I bought Amazonia, and the last copies of Subterranean, Excavation and Sandstorm at the bookstore. The four paperback books, after deducting the 20% discount came out to less than PHP1,000. Pretty good deal, I think. I did not get Deep Fathom because the cover had a bit of crease.

The recent fourth installment of Indiana Jones -- the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is available on book, and it is written by James Rollins. I'm not sure if Rollins wrote the book from which the movie was adapted, or whether he just wrote the book based on the movie's screenplay.

Shelfari Widget

Shelfari is a free website where people can go to rant and rave about books. One can search through its database for the book covers and synopsis of the novel, then make comments or reviews about it. Shelfari is a "Web 2.0" site, in the sense that, its contents are mostly user-generated. It uses a lot of AJAX technology that makes the interface really spiffy and interactive.

I revisited Shelfari today while doing some reading on Google's OpenSocial API. Shelfari is supposed to be one of the sites that already supports OpenSocial. So I created an account for myself at Shelfari and added some James Rollins books I recently read like The Judas Strain and Map of Bones. Then I used Shelfari's widget tools to automate the adding of a mini bookshelf to the right column of this blog. The bookshelf now shows the current book I'm reading. Very amazing what it can do!