LibraryThing: It's Your Thing!

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+ guest5f8ec4d 8 months ago
Interesting stuff. Online searchable book catalogues seem to be getting more and more intelligent - I came across another site that offers book recommendations based on your reading profile and allows you to recommend books to others. It’s also in its beta phase and is still being developed, but has some really interesting features available already, including loads of book-related videos and forums .

Martin Kalfatovic, Librarian at Smithsonian, added this to the group Smithsonian Libraries

LibraryThing: It's Your Thing!
LibraryThing: Stats
- Founder: Tim Spaulding
- Founded in August 2005
- Members 446,561
- Books cataloged 28,961,131
- Tags added 37,470,558
- Unique works 3,418,434
LibraryThing: Stats
- Total reviews 449,450
- Works reviewed 214,561
- Ratings 4,453,815
- User-contributed covers 953,944
- Author photos 23,564
- User groups 3,987
- Forum messages 684,194
But Just What Is It? LibraryThing holds about the same relation to Amazon that a brick-and-mortar library holds to your local brick-and-mortar bookstore. Amazon tries to get you to pad your shopping cart at every turn by pointing out related items, add-ons, and discounts; LibraryThing is more concerned with building a book community where people with similar tastes can connect. - David Louis Edelman's Blog It's Facebook for Book Freaks ... look out all you book freeks and fiends here it is, the site that will consume your reading hearts." - Lunch Break Matinee
Libraries and LibraryThing
- 51 libraries around the world are currently using LibraryThing
- How? Integration into their OPACs
- http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries/
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