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October 1, 2006

Great Find: Library Thing

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 2:15 pm

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Cat Morley of Designers Who Blog found this one for me. I have a feeling I know a few follks who are going to love it. . . .

Great Find: Library Thing

Permalink: http://www.librarything.com/

Audience/Topic: Everyone who reads

Content: Imagine your own Library of Alexandria, a personal wonder of the world. Then imagine you wouldn’t have to pack and move it each time that you changed where you decided to live. Heaven. Yes?

Library Thing boasts over 3.8 million books on member bookshelves for you to peruse. It can search Amazon, the Library of Congress, and 45 other world libraries. It’s a social network of people with similar libraries to yours. Tag your books as might on Flickr. Import and export titles. Library Thing even has it’s own blog! Click on the title shot below to check this wonderful use of technology to match readers with great books and people who love them.

Library Thing

It’s so much fun to see what’s there!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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19 Comments to “Great Find: Library Thing”

  1. October 1st, 2006 at 2:50 pm
    Stéphanie said

    Hi Liz,

    This looks like a great find. Thanks for sharing it. I bet I’m going to love this…
    Bookworm + online catalogues + sharing/networking = winning combination.

    I’ll try it out.

    Cheers!

  2. October 1st, 2006 at 2:53 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Stephanie!
    I saw that you’re moving. Congratulations!
    It does look like a real bookworm’s delight, doesn’t it? Yum. :)

  3. October 1st, 2006 at 5:15 pm
    Martin said

    Finally … a social networking thingy I can really get into. Very nice find.

  4. October 1st, 2006 at 5:16 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Yeah, Martin,
    You were one. I thought you might liek this one just a little bit. :)

  5. October 1st, 2006 at 5:54 pm
    Martin said

    Yeah, just a little bit. :-)

    I’ve got a feeling I’ll be spending a few hours there every week - starting with right now …

  6. October 1st, 2006 at 5:56 pm
    ME Strauss said

    It does have that potential to be very addictive, doesn’t it?

  7. October 1st, 2006 at 5:57 pm
    seanrox said

    Hi Liz. Nice find. Thanks for sharing!

    I’ve got one for you. Take a look at DVD Profiler which is a great way to catalog your DVD movies.

    I’ve been using it for a while now and at some point I’ll have all my DVD’s cataloged but for now I have a few of them if you’re interested in checking out my list.

  8. October 1st, 2006 at 5:59 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Oh Sean,
    That’s nice! Maybe I’ll put that one up next week. We’ll have our virtual dream house dens decked out in no time. :)

  9. October 1st, 2006 at 6:02 pm
    seanrox said

    Indeed Liz. It’s really nice. You can even print out your entire catalog of DVD’s, so when people come over and they want to watch a movie, you can hand them a nifty guide to all your movies.

  10. October 1st, 2006 at 6:06 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Do come in.
    Please have seat.
    Your drink will be here momentarily.
    Do you have a movie choice this evening?
    Here’s a menu that you might select from.

    Too cool.

  11. October 1st, 2006 at 6:11 pm
    seanrox said

    We’re such geeks. Hehe. I love it!

  12. October 1st, 2006 at 6:13 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Classy geeks, if you ask me. :)

  13. October 1st, 2006 at 8:40 pm
    Scott Ahlsmith, CTC said

    As I was merrily entering a few of my books in the LibraryThing, I kept thinking about your library-with-each-book-in-a-separate-building analogy to describe life if the telecoms and cable guys neuter network neutrality.

    It was an Orwellian moment as I was secretly connecting the buildings to thwart AT&T’s attempt to keep me from reading something from Comcast’s list. We were using the LibraryThing to stick it to the man!

  14. October 1st, 2006 at 8:44 pm
    ME Strauss said

    How funny, Scott! I’ve got the visual complete in front of me. I’ll never be able to look at that picture again in the same way. You are silly evil!!!

  15. October 1st, 2006 at 10:29 pm
    Pedro Laboy said

    this is a great website. i have already spend a couple of hours in this site. thank you for sharing this with us.

  16. October 1st, 2006 at 10:32 pm
    ME Strauss said

    HI Pedro!
    Welcome. Thank you for stopping back to let me know you enjoyed it!

  17. October 23rd, 2006 at 5:55 pm
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  18. October 31st, 2006 at 4:22 pm
    les said

    Hi……I recently compared librarything and 2 other social networking sites you might like to read. Its just here:-

    http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2006/10/librarything-shelfari-and-gurulib.html

  19. October 31st, 2006 at 4:28 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hey, Les,
    Welcome and thank you for sharing your comparative review. Your review is thorough and unbiased as far as I can see. Looking through the comments tell me you must have done a great job, because you brought them running to talk about the features you didn’t mention. :)

    Thanks again!

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