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This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 at 11:02 am and is filed under integration, social software, librarything. . Good to see LibraryThing getting a nice write up in the WSJ (via techmeme ) I've mentioned the service before as a good example of how you can get the data . LibraryThing users have the ability to paste a widget into a blog template, thus allowing users to see a list of what they're reading, or a random selection . Tim Spalding has taken discussion forums a big step forward over at LibraryThing. The concept is simple but could make a real difference because it allows . I love how LibraryThing has build up a community around books, and I was excited to hear how we could apply this in the library world. . LibraryThing for Libraries integrates with your current catalog to add book recommendations, tag clouds, ratings, and patron . . Anybody who has ever spent too many hours on Amazon or Netflix rating and browsing will love LibraryThing, a service where you can choose all the books you . As I unpacked boxes (and boxes) of books I entered them into LibraryThing. My lifetime membership is going to come in handy (it has already helped me weed . LibraryThing offers many features that result from all this classifying and . LibraryThing also makes book recommendations based on the collective . Here's an exciting new development from Librarything. I really want to try this out, but I'm not convinced that I'm going to be able to just paste a widget . Today's ToDo: Go to LibraryThing and poke around. If you want to know what the web will be good for in its next cycle this is a place to visit and reflect . Radegund recently posted a “book meme”, listing the 106 (no idea why that number, but hey) books most listed as “unread” by users on LibraryThing (a kind of . Michael Webb has recently posted an article on LibraryThing. I have also recently signed up for this service and catlogues about 100 of my (many!) books. . I recently found myself in the rather odd position of trying to explain LibraryThing to several of my colleagues. Without getting too much into that . I got carried away playing with LibraryThing this morning. It's like Flickr for books. I don't know how I missed it, since people have been talking about it . Library Thing. 02:41 From: sharontaylor2000. Views: 49. Add Video to QuickList. Popular Gore Spoof in the Library. 04:23 From: mobuzz. Views: 122 . I just dug into LibraryThing a little bit. I am sorely tempted to spend the $25 on a lifetime membership. I maxed out the free 200 book entries already by . LibraryThing is easy to use even for Web 2. 0 novices and applicable to libraries. I've read where a school library has put their books into LibraryThing so . I discovered LibraryThing a couple of weeks ago, and I’m in book lover’s heaven! I could instantly see major potential here, and I’ve already started to get . I may have mentioned LibraryThing previously, but have had an opportunity to check it out a little (pun intended). LibraryThing is a social networking . LibraryThing has scooped up a bunch of good ideas, and Book Burro continues to make almost all of my earlier fussing around with Greasemonkey unnecessary. . Shelfari, the popular social network for book lovers, is currently being lambasted for this practice, especially by LibraryThing, their chief competitor. . LibraryThing allows you to catalog your books online. That’s cool enough for those of us who have rather large personal libraries. . LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. Because everyone catalogs together, you can also use LibraryThing to find . LibraryThing updated. Only 25 books so far this year. I’ve been checking a lot of books out of the library and returning them unread — too busy to read, . Abby (LibraryThing's librarian) says in a comment here that LibraryThing will allow users to add things like movies and music later this summer. . I’m only about 900 books into our library, but I really can’t say enough nice things about LibraryThing and the people who run it. . I was pleased to notice that Shelfari has shot past LibraryThing (according to Alexa anyway). I was always put off LibraryThing because there was a fee if . Check out How LibraryThing. com Can Help You Find Your Next Favorite Book to Read - Submitted by Sabah Karimi at Associated Content. Commenter Reese mentioned All Consuming in a recent thread, which led to finding LibraryThing. Interesting and useful, perhaps, to those who prefer a . I first came across the LibraryThing website about a year ago. The idea is remarkably simple - it allows you to catalogue your books, tag them and review . I usually try to keep these posts short, but after seeing Jonas suggest that people take a look at LibraryThing. com, I thought I’d share at some length my . My Librarything account has been down for two days now. It is making me a little worried. I have all kinds of crazy books that I am dying to read saved on . The fine folks at LibraryThing have announced a major new feature: Talk. LibaryThing is, as I have mentioned before, a hybrid of social networking, . Tim Spalding announced today that the new LibraryThing widget for library OPAC’s will be revealed at CIL2007. From the looks of the widget image he put up, . LibraryThing is a thing of loveliness indeed. At its most basic level it's an online cataloguing application - you enter your books (200 for free, . Then LibraryThing may be just the tool for you. Developed for booklovers, this online tool not only allows you to easily create an online catalog of your . Following from member Mark's suggestion at the October meeting, the WUUG now has a LibraryThing group where we can share our technical libraries and borrow . Tim Spalding at LibraryThing has introduced a new wrinkle in the tagosphere…and wrinkles are welcome because they pucker space in semantically interesting . There was an action on me from last week to take a look at the suitability of LibraryThing [1] as one channel by which to push out information about . Not like I have time today, but I got an account at LibraryThing. It’s a way for those of us with extensive (or even not-so-extensive) libraries to . I have spent most of today making a library of my books (no, I mean making a library of a small number of my books) on my library at the LibraryThing - a . Stuff that interests me. : LibraryThing and CueCat Redux. I'm still in love with LibraryThing. It's the coolest internet thing ever, besides Blogger and Netflix, of course. I think I might join because I can only . Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and LibraryThing. to amazon librarything tagging on 2007-03-02 09:57:27. 0 . LibraryThing just released Common Knowledge, the innovative, open-data "fielded wiki" they have been talking about for a month on 10/10/07. . I came across a site called "LibraryThing" that has a unique (as far as I know) feature for recommendation. While most sites try to suggest strongly . Over 1. 7 million books are singletons on LibraryThing, and five million books belong to a work in 10 or fewer members’ libraries. Sure we have 100000 Harry . LibraryThing is the leading social-networking site for bibliophiles, and it offers authors an opportunity to enhance their profile.

. Leading the charge in book-tagging is LibraryThing, which has signed up nearly 50000 users since it was launched last August. Members enter books they own, . I started using LibraryThing because I liked its tagging power (for browsing and searching). I also liked its less-commercial book pages, fondness for and . legallypuzzled figured out the (nonstandard) MAGICNUMBER URL to do an ISBN search within my local (county) library system from LibraryThing entries, . LibraryThing is a great new app that let you catalog you’re books. It’s in early beta and although it needs a lot of feature as far as search, design, . Tim Spalding has upgraded LibraryThing to include a few RSS feeds (151440, to be precise) for its online catalog. Feeds include books cataloged by each . That's the idea behind the LibraryThing author program—giving readers a window into authors' tastes, and authors a great new way to connect with their . Signing up for LibraryThing is fast and easy. All you need is a user name and a password. We do not require any other information. . This one hour class deeply explores the Web 2. 0 service, LibraryThing. Spend one hour with us and learn how to sign up for an account, add books, . Another potentially useful resource in the struggle to achieve some organisation around here: LibraryThing enables you create your own online catalogue of . . of the blogosphere (the portion you want. at least), podcasting, streaming video live into Second Life, and very cool book tools like Library Thing. . LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. LibraryThing is a webbased service, that allows you to register your books. (1-200 books are free. ) A lifetime unlimited account costs 25 dollars. . Suggester is Library Thing's Novel List. I say on the whole it is just as good - it is much much faster - no log in, no seven screens to nav through . Ky është thelbi i programit për shkrimtarët në LibraryThing. U japim lexuesve një dritë mbi shijet e shkrimtarit dhe shkrimtarëve u japin një mënyrë krejt . The name of the place is LibraryThing and basically it gives you an opportunity to catalog your bookshelf, as well as, create a must read list - while at . The Goddesses have started cataloging their books on LibraryThing, and we'll be adding more on a regular basis. Our username, if you want to look us up, . LibraryThing offers many options the average online library catalog does not. For example, it allows a library’s collection to be browsed via book cover . LibraryThing! This is nice. A virtual personal library?!? Awesome!! Luckily I don't have too huge of a collection, so not much typing . One of the best book-sites around celebrates its first birthday today - congratulations, LibraryThing! In just a year, the site has grown from scratch to a . This past weekend I entered many of my books into a delightful website, LibraryThing. It’s the internet incarnation of those wonderful old wood card . root/widget-librarything. View revision:. Name · Size, Rev, Age, Last Change . . / · branches · 5760, 10 months, matt: Adding offline . Cindy came home last week, raving about LibraryThing. What is LibraryThing? It's a website that allows you to catalog your books while at the same time . I’m addicted to LibraryThing. It only took a few hours and I only have a start on cataloging my library. This is great stuff! . For the heck of it, I decided to try out LibraryThing, a book cataloging/social networking site. I figure it will be good for me to have a comprehensive . LibraryThing is an online book cataloguing website and it's GREAT. I discovered it via LibraryStuff and have been gradually cataloguing my collection ever . Establishing a catalog for my library on LibraryThing was surprisingly easy. (I say that from the viewpoint of one who typically struggles with most social . Librarything All the cool kids (if book obsessives have a "cool kids" section) are joining LibraryThing- an easy to use, online way of keeping track of your . Bedford Public Library recently implemented LibraryThing for Libraries in its catalog. We've posted info about it on our web site. . LibraryThing is a neat online service for cataloging your library (free for up to 200 books). It delves into social networking territory, allowing you to . I’ve been circling some ideas about LibraryThing for Libraries lately; listening to some of the excellent talks at The Future of the ILS in Illinois got me . The creators of LibraryThing have added a new feature for members who are also authors. (Since I mentioned being an author in my profile, I got to be part . I'm being sucked into a giant, all-consuming vortex called Librarything. com. Yeah, OK, I knew about this some time ago, but only the other night did I . LibraryThing for Libraries is Here! Now, for about 75% of our books, . there is a form there or you can contact casey@librarything. com directly. . Earlier this month, I mentioned that Unbridled Books would be participating in LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program. It’s a relatively new program, . The first part of that bibliographic record is straight out of the library’s PAC, but nicely tucked below is a tag cloud piped in from LibraryThing’s . Be a LibraryThing Author , Internet news with Adelle Bradford. LibraryThing is a web site where people can catalog their books and connect with people who like the same (or different) books. . Abebooks. com Acquires Major Stake in LibraryThing. com - A Social Networking Site for Bibliophiles. By fjordaan in Public bookmarks with changelog conditions copywriting legalese librarything personality policy privacy simple terms tsandcs . LibraryThing is a free website that helps people catalog their personal libraries and connect with thousands of other readers with similar interests. . Ms. Fleet will also set up a new LibraryThing account just for the Blatant Bibliophiles. See Ms. Fleet for the user name and password. . I have finished the upload to LibraryThing. Visit our profile, or the view of the books more directly at our catalog. Now the book covers on the right hand . Maybe it's learning that there are only three people "working" for LibraryThing, or perhaps the "Unsuggester" won me over. but LibraryThing librarian Abby . Bookmark for LibraryThing | Catalog your books online by webchick tagged with library, books, reading and described as . If you like reading books then take a look at Librarything. com. It is a cool site where you can catalogue some or all of your books. Librarything has announced a neat new feature where users can sign up to receive advance copies of books in exchange for writing reviews. . I have commented previously about LibraryThing and mentioned how a nice import utility for data from DeliciousLibrary or other tools would be a great .