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Are you book lover or cataloger at heart? Or do you enjoy finding lost and forgotten gems on the shelf to read? 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 own it also connects you to other people who have similar libraries and reading tastes.Add a book to your catalog by just entering the title -- It’s so easy that you don’t even need MARC record training to do it – or connect with other users through your similar reading tastes. There are lots of ways to use LibraryThing. You can even view your books on a virtual shelf, add a widget (see sidebar for sample) to display titles that are in your catalog or install a LT Search box on your blog.
So why not join the ranks and create your own library online. With over 65,000 registered (BTW: LibraryThing also has group forum for librarians users and over 4.7 million cataloged books, you're bound to discover something new.
Discovery Resources:
Discovery Exercise:
- Take a look around LibraryThing and create an account.
- Add at least 5 books to your library.
- Blog about your findings and be sure to link to your LibraryThing catalog.
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2 comments:
As it says in the intro about Library thing - "it also connects you to other people who have similar libraries and reading tastes."
I also read somewhere else about finding other people who had "eerily similar" booklists.
How? - Library thing didn't give me info on how to do this.
Lindsey from librarything.com emailed me some instructions re above: go to my Profile page & click on 'Members with Digby1's books' (on the left) - but the site says 'this feature switched off 13/10'
She also said to try going to a favourite author's Author Pages and see who else has favourited that author - but how do I go to the Author Pages?
Also - how do you add Tags to your book selections? - Do they have to be added before you search for the book?
At one point I followed a link saying something like ' connect this to your Blog' then it gave me some HTML code to paste into my Blog which I tried to do by pasting the code into the Source code behind this Blog - but nothing happened.
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