LibraryThing might not be “all the wonderful”, but it’s a lot of the wonderful. Still, it’s pretty scary when it knows more about the state of my relationship than I do.
Sifting through my recommendations I found Changing Babies by Deborah Moggach. You can bet I clicked that button labelled “Why” in double-quick time, and found: [...]
Over at my LibraryThing reviews account I just posted my review of Shaun Tan’s beautiful story-in-pictures The Arrival. I can’t recommend it highly enough. You can see some images on the artist’s website (I’ve linked a few from the review also).
After posting the review I started wandering through other people’s reviews (the perils and joys [...]
Just back from ESSLLI, about which more coming soon… Catching up on two weeks of news I find that LibraryThing has added a bunch of Dutch cataloguing sources.
De NRC Handelsblad heeft een stukje daarover, of je kunt direct naar LibraryThing.nl. Wees voorzichtig, het is wel verslavend…
Here’s an idea someone should be working on.
There are all these Web2.0 sites out there letting you “tag” stuff. Some have excellent tagging interfaces and some are more primitive.
What about a single app that talks to all of them?
Or, more reasonably, a combination of two things:
A standardised tagging API which these sites can choose to [...]
LibraryThing has split the ‘watchlist’ option into two: ‘interesting libraries’ and ‘friends’. So if anyone I actually know is using it, drop me a friend request. As you might have guessed, my LT name is tikitu.
(I don’t, as a general rule, do social networking. But I’m genuinely interested in the books people I know are [...]
As promised, my LibraryThing reviews account has a bunch of new reviews. I even managed to keep some of them short.
If you haven’t already played with LibraryThing’s unSuggester, go play now. John Emerson has some notable book/antibook pairs which are worth a look.
I was tooling around with the ordinary recommendations and was dismayed to discover that since last time I checked my sf predeliction has apparently overwhelmed the stats completely. To my puzzlement but delight, [...]
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 [...]
I’ve tried a few times before to start a regular book review post schedule. It never works. Now I have a new strategy: when I start reading a book, I enter it in LibraryThing, as tikitu-reviews (a separate account to to the one for books I own). When I finish it, if all goes according to [...]
Probably the last LT post for a while, but the recommendations feature just got augmented with a “Why?” link showing which books you own prompted the suggestion. It’s pretty neat. I seem to have hit basically two clusters: “Assigned for an English Lit. course” (The Great Gatsby, Dubliners, On the Road, Steppenwolf, Labyrinths, The Baron [...]