Enter Reading Trails, a new social network that takes a fresh approach to finding books online. The site lets you piece your book breadcrumbs together to create a trail, for example, "Fairytales with a twist." User trails are connected through intersections, which are just books that are shared across multiple trails.
To get started with the site you can either view existing trails or create your own. Trails are user-defined, and allow for adding books, descriptions, and tags. Once more and more books are added to trails, you'll start to discover where your literary interests intersect with other users. Finding those intersections can be a pretty handy tool for discovering must new reads or passed over diamonds in the rough.
With Reading Trails you can also create widgets from trails, purchase books through Amazon or Abebooks, find books at a library, write reviews on books in other trails, and share trails across various social sites. And if you're looking to follow in the footsteps of literary professionals, you can browse the trails of established authors and professors handpicked by the Reading Trails teams.