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I have to be careful what I say on here- we wonder sometimes, but it seems people actually are listening to us. The other day we got the following email message in our inbox:

Hi Adam and Jessica,

I came across your blog for the first time today and have really been enjoying it. I love the phrase ‘travelogue of the mind,’ it’s so descriptive.

Since you are LibraryThing fans and have written about Web 2.0 sites, I thought you might be interested in checking out and posting about a site my friends and I recently launched called Squirl (http://squirl.info). It’s somewhat similar to LibraryThing, but where LibraryThing focuses on books, we let users create archives of pretty much anything. Books, but also music, movies, comic books, and many categories of collectibles. Cataloging your collectibles is at the core of it, but it also has social networking features, including a new ‘Groups’ feature, and the ability to upload photos of your stuff a la flickr.

Thanks for your blog, and your time. Hope you have a chance to check out Squirl :)

Regards,
Kristy

Really nice email, I thought. I checked out their site, and they’ve done a really nice job with it. I think it would be a great way for people to share their passion for collecting and find others who have similar interests. Better than just keeping it on a dusty shelf, I suppose.

I’m sticking with LibraryThing, since books are the only thing I collect any more, plus I really don’t need to sign up for another web service (my list of web ID & password pairs topped a hundred a couple of weeks ago!). For those of you who have some obscure collection you wnat to share, check Squirl out.