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 [...]
Riddley Walker is a good contender for my all-time favourite novel. It’s a post-apocalyptic story told in the first person, with altered spelling and reinterpreted expressions and the rhythms of oral history to match. The language is at first intimidating, and it’s a testament to Russell Hoban’s writing that you get caught up in the [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday’s post brought SteamPunk magazine with it, which explains me turning up bleary-eyed an hour late to work this morning. It’s a new no-budget zine, pdfs for free download or you get a handsome printed copy on recycled paper for US$3 plus shipping.
The good
It’s very handsome. The design and typography is great, mixing up faux-Victorian [...]
I’m seriously in two minds about this. According to Lucy Orbach of BooksPrice, I rate a notification that their service just got better. On the one hand, it’s spam [ok, no it's not.]. On the other hand, it’s personalised and polite and damn it I think I probably do want to use their site.
I can’t [...]
I’ve just been hacking around with one of my pages, trying to tweak what Google Image Search thinks it represents. The page contains a number of short paragraphs, each with a header and a single picture. The problem is that Google cleverly mines the text surrounding each image for keywords, above and below, meaning that [...]
Robin pointed me to coffee.geek.nz, where they have an eMusic lookup based on Last.fm (Audioscrobbler) history: Audioscrobbler to Emusic for lazy people. I’m already discovering interesting new stuff…
(Robin is also responsible for eMusic/J, the unofficial —and very nice— linux eMu download app.)
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 [...]