Thinking about my LibraryThing reviews

This past year I have been writing reviews on LibraryThing for each book I read. My reviews are between two to five paragraphs in length and, I hope, useful and sometimes fun. A regular visitor to this page can see a snippet of each review to left of the page placed there via a useful widget from LibraryThing. Click on the snippet and a window pops up with data about the book and my review. I think it’s cool.

At first I was writing these reviews as a kind of exercise. Gathering one’s thoughts about a book helps, well, to gather one’s thoughts. Putting those thoughts into words helps refine one’s impressions, and sometimes it can provoke a bit of rethinking. Plus it’s fun to look back six months or a year later and remind yourself what you thought of that book that is now propping up the far end of your bookshelf.

But now, some 57 books later I find that I’ve produced a fair amount of material – more than 30 pages in the file in which I draft my reviews. I’m wondering whether there would be any sense in repurposing that material here on my blog. I’ve already got the LT widget. Would it make sense to produce a blog post as well for each book? (Copyright is retained by the reviewer on LT, so there is no issue raised by doing this.) Is there a good reason not to do this?

On the other hand, is there a good reason to do it?