This is the first ever post on the Big Bookshelf. See the ‘about’ page for more details, and stay tuned for news of developments.

The Big Bookshelf started as a project idea for Libraryhack, a web data mashup competition in Australia. We’re inspired by Sutton Bookshare.

There’s a lot of big things in Australia – a big banana, a big pineapple, the list is endless. And that got us thinking…

If we were to share information about the contents of our bookshelves online we could easily share our books with our neighbours and we’d end up with the biggest virtual bookshelf in the Southern Hemisphere.

But we’ll start small, first.

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