Congratulations to Tim Spalding, LibraryThing creator, on the recent partnership with AbeBooks. The blog has the announcement. I’ve been an AbeBooks fan ever since I discovered BookSleuth: a community forum where you can post whatever details you can remember from a book you’re trying to track down, and somebody will recognise it and remind you of title/author details. It really works (mainly due to a hard core of regular sleuths) I’ve had a couple of forgotten novels and stories resurrected that way, and it’s a fantastic idea.
I could try and draw some parallels between Abe and LT, community-focus and blah blah, but actually it’s just nice to see old friends get together. Congrats to both of ‘em.