Lovelybooks is a new, free online initiative to get people talking and thinking about books. Developed by Nature Publishing Group’s owners Holtzbrinck, in Stuttgart, an English-language version has just been launched as a beta version. We encourage you to sign up and help develop the site.

Lovelybooks lets you create a virtual bookshelf by adding books from Lovelybooks’ database or from Amazon (USA or UK site), rate and review books, recommend books and meet other readers with similar tastes. So far, there are no subject tags for “science” (see the site’s tag cloud here), so do take the opportunity to rectify this omission by recommending your favourite science-related books.