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So I’ve got Adsense on my blog now, hope­fully in a taste­ful way. I’m wrestling with doing the feeds as well, but that’s a more ugly prospect: adverts on my own site are one thing, hav­ing them show up in aggre­ga­tion on PGO, for exmaple is an anti-social other. (Yes, this is me mak­ing my mind up against it.)

I’ve also added the “Now Reading” plu­gin for Wordpress, which does the dual duty of keep­ing track of what books I’ve read and want to read out­side of LivingSocial Books, and giv­ing me asso­ciates links for the books — i.e. if you buy a book from Amazon based on a click from my “library” pages, I get the kick­backs, rather than some­one else. There’s also the added ben­e­fit of the mar­ket­ing speedbump.

The down­side is that you don’t get the social net­work­ing effects of LS, point­ing you at new books. Unfortunately the peo­ple I know on LS tend to read mostly fiction/fantasy. I think it’s been 2 years since I picked up a pure fic­tion book of any type, honestly.

The next step is to start tag­ging and review­ing the books I can hon­estly remember…