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Great Find: Library Thing

October 1, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

Catalog Your Books Online

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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Comments

  1. Stéphanie says

    October 1, 2006 at 2:50 PM

    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!

    Reply
  2. ME Strauss says

    October 1, 2006 at 2:53 PM

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

    Reply
  3. Martin says

    October 1, 2006 at 5:15 PM

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

    Reply
  4. ME Strauss says

    October 1, 2006 at 5:16 PM

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

    Reply
  5. Martin says

    October 1, 2006 at 5:54 PM

    Yeah, just a little bit. 🙂

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

    Reply
  6. ME Strauss says

    October 1, 2006 at 5:56 PM

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

    Reply
  7. seanrox says

    October 1, 2006 at 5:57 PM

    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.

    Reply
  8. ME Strauss says

    October 1, 2006 at 5:59 PM

    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. 🙂

    Reply
  9. seanrox says

    October 1, 2006 at 6:02 PM

    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.

    Reply
  10. ME Strauss says

    October 1, 2006 at 6:06 PM

    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.

    Reply
  11. seanrox says

    October 1, 2006 at 6:11 PM

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

    Reply
  12. ME Strauss says

    October 1, 2006 at 6:13 PM

    Classy geeks, if you ask me. 🙂

    Reply
  13. Scott Ahlsmith, CTC says

    October 1, 2006 at 8:40 PM

    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!

    Reply
  14. ME Strauss says

    October 1, 2006 at 8:44 PM

    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!!!

    Reply
  15. Pedro Laboy says

    October 1, 2006 at 10:29 PM

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

    Reply
  16. ME Strauss says

    October 1, 2006 at 10:32 PM

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

    Reply
  17. les says

    October 31, 2006 at 4:22 PM

    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

    Reply
  18. ME Strauss says

    October 31, 2006 at 4:28 PM

    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!

    Reply

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