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What the blogosphere is saying about LibraryThing |
What the mainstream media is saying"[T]he concept will appeal to many serious and casual bibliophiles, and the implementation is, as they say, simplicity itself." Jim Regan, The Christian Science Monitor "LibraryThing's own book-recommendation engine ... can generate dozens of undiscovered titles for a member's consideration." Aaron Rutkoff, The Wall Street Journal Online "Some of us just can't help ourselves. At every book shelf, we cock our heads and scan the titles. Now, with LibraryThing.com, we can peek at thousands of libraries." Jan Gardner, The Boston Globe "Almost every day someone comes up with a use for the internet that makes you wonder why no one has thought of it before. Once a year, maybe, one of these good ideas gets built. Last week, one of these simple, brilliant ideas got built, and it's good news for anyone who owns the books they read." Andrew Brown, The Guardian (UK) "Perhaps my favorite thing about LibraryThing is that you can track down someone who shares your tastes and request a direct recommendation or ask them if a book you're thinking of buying is any good." Cade Metz, PC Magazine "But LibraryThing has evolved into more than just a handy tool; it has become a thriving community..." C. Max Magee, Poets & Writers "At LibraryThing.com, old school met new media, fell in love and birthed a book geek's dream come true." Colette Bancroft, St. Petersburg Times "one of the Net's sleeper hits, a testament to both the word-of-mouth power of the blogosphere and the enduring passion for books." Kathy Ishizuka, School Library Journal, "I've seen the future of online catalogs, and its name is LibraryThing." Steve Cohen, Public Libraries magazine (March/April 2006) "...the classy-looking bibliophile network..." James Knight, The Sunday Times (UK) "LibraryThing is a highly social service: find similar users, join groups, subscribe to watch lists or RSS feeds of your favorite LibraryThing catalogers, discuss books, and comment on others' collections." Melissa L. Rethlefsen, Library Journal, "Now book lovers can join the tagging revolution. LibraryThing is like iTunes for books, except it's free. ... it's easy and oddly satisfying..." Johnny Dee, The Guide (The Guardian), "Preview, internet" (Aug 12-18, 2006) "One of the more appealing post-MySpace sites is LibraryThing.com." Killian Fox, The Observer (Guardian), "Diamondgeezer, 66," (Feb 4, 2007) "Create a virtual card catalog and meet like-minded book lovers..." Whitney Matheson, USA Today "I really like what they're trying to do with this, which is to apply a sort of MySpace model to books." Jason Jenkins, BBC Radio 4, "If you love books, and love people who love books, LibraryThing is for you. Start by using the service to catalog your book collection: Tag your books by topic, share your catalog with others, and then endlessly browse the titles that they have on their shelves. The utterly book obsessed can add the LibraryThing widget to a blog to show visitors what they have been reading lately." PCWorld (February 2006) "LibraryThing is one of those tools you never know you need until you use it. Knowing which book is where is useful enough to justify it, but there are subtler joys too." Kate Heartfield, The Ottawa Citizen "Librarything is one of the best-known social networks for bookworms where one can swap reading lists and find soul mates. Another wacky feature on it is the 'Unsuggester', which tells which books you will hate based on the books you love." Amulya Gopalakrishnan, NDTV.com, "Use the site's social networking tools to set up book clubs, pick books of the month and set meeting times." Jamy Pombo, TheBostonChannel "The beauty of LibraryThing is that the more people that use it, the more useful it becomes" Jenny Shank, New West Boulder, "Addictive LibraryThing Aids Search for Western Books", (July 24, 2006) "The fun begins when you compare lists and find out who shares your taste or discover new books. Authors, if they dare, can check who has read their work." Susan Wyndham, The Sydney Morning Herald "Find yourself yearning to talk about your favorite author, but none of your friends want to listen? ... Library Thing will match you with other readers who like similar authors and genres." Winston-Salem Journal "... my favorite feature is the reviews. The site has a lot of members, and many of them post comments on books. This comes in handy when it's time for a new book!" Kim Kommando (Kim Kommando Radio Show Kool Site of the Day) "Library Thing is an excellent, and free, solution." Amber MacArthur, Call for Help "It's strangely addictive and fun, and a way to share your literary prowess with readers of your blog, and lets you hook up with other people who have the same books as you." Jessica Burgess, Dallas Morning News "...users [are] discovering the communal joys of peeking at somebody else's book collection." Chris Churchill, Mainebiz, "This week we're loving", OK! (Oct 9, 2006) "Much like Amazon.com, B&N.com and other online retailers, LibraryThing makes book suggestions for members, based on their interests. Unlike online companies, LibraryThing has begun what founder Tim Spalding called "a humorous service" named the UnSuggester that turns the algorithm of "people who read Book X read Book Y" on its head." Shelf Awareness, (Nov 14, 2006) "Surtout, it permet une mise en contact des interautes afin qu'ils partagent leurs catalogues." Clarisse Normand, Livres Hebdo Rated as one of the "Ten Websites You Shouldn't Miss" (Christian Science Monitor 12/29/05) The Mainstream Media's Blogs"It's Library 2.0: the internet celebrating the book, not killing it. " Mail & Guardian online, "ZA@Play", (Aug 3, 2007) "Fantastic. Addictive and very, very cool." The Guardian, Culture Vulture Blog "If you're a bibliophile, you'll love the ability to tag your books the same way Flickr users tag their photos. Tags become a very useful source of recommendations for future reading lists, as do the reviews and ratings that users are encouraged to attach to book listing." ABC News, "Social Networking" "why I was so entranced... ...Firstly, because it proves I'm not alone in my fascination with other people's reading habits, secondly because of the inherent fun of finding out what a complete stranger has been reading, and thirdly because it's a great way of picking up tips for future purchases." The Guardian, Arts blog "So start cataloging, make a new friend or two, find a new book and start reading. You could be in for a delightful surprise." Boston Herald Blog: Online Living by Rochelle Stewart "Je sais, Amazon à l'art de me suggérer des titres susceptibles de m'intéresser sur la base de ce que j'ai déjà acheté des titres auxquels je me suis intéressé, mais maintenant c'est moi qui explore. C'est pas incompatible. C'est différent. C'est mieux." Le Monde blog by Francis Pisani "But the best part is signing up. It's ONLY two steps...less than 2 seconds." "It's essentially an online card catalog that lets you meet other readers." "Click on any cover and you can get library-quality data on that book, see who else owns it, and read what he said about it. ... It's like having your own personal librarian and know-it-all bookseller rolled into one." Ladies' Home Journal, Miss Gizmo Blog "For a booklover (with a lot of free time) it's heaven." Daytona Beach News-Journal Online "The website allows you to find other people with similar reading habits, or people to mock for their poor reading choices." Quill Blog (Quill & Quire) "I have a brand new tag-based obsession - Library Thing. It's Del.icio.us for your bookshelf, a literary Flickr, and it wastes hours and hours of time at work." Should it be Illegal?"oddly addictive" "the booklover's equivalent of crack" Music of the Spheres (long, detailed summary) "I know I shouldn't be doing this, but this thing IS addictive!" "Sweet Goddess, is that ever addictive! "Give it a try, but be warned: it's addictive!" "Quite addictive." "I am completely and totally addicted to this website Library Thing." "I finally headed over to LibraryThing and became instantly addicted." "i have found a new addiction" "This is heroin for book junkies." "[L]etting me loose with LibraryThing is like letting William S. Burroughs loose in a smack factory." The Esoteric Science Resource Center "Introducing me to something like this is like setting an alcoholic adrift on a sea of vodka, in a leaky boat." "Dangerous, dangerous, dangerous." "LibraryThing, I think I love you." "I came across LibraryThing last night, and just about had a happiness coronary" The Notepad - Friday I'm In Love "SpecialSauce recommendations - I don't know how this works, but it has prompted me to put 3 books on hold at my local library in the last week." " My dear friends, you may of all just lost me to LibraryThing... I don't think I'm ever coming back out of it." "LibraryThing is awesome. And evil. Awesome because it promises to solve my long-bothersome cataloguing problem, and just in the nick of time; evil because entering books is somehow addictive." "This is the coolest thing I've found online since I discovered the blog." MamasInk / The Mother of All Blogs "I have to give the owner of the site credit - it's barely two months old, and he programmed it all himself. New features are being added on a semi-daily basis. That's no easy thing to do. "Andate ad esplorare." "LibraryThing is a great new app that let you catalog you're books. ... it's a stellar start to what could be the next great website." "[It has] such a usable sign up form that it almost made me cry." "a cool one step registration procedure" Floating Feet on website usability "Wow, I love this!" "It's candy, sheer candy" "I'm horribly addicted to the Zeitgeist page..." "I am going to tell you about [LibraryThing] now and come back later and write some more about it after I've tried it. I was just so overcome with excitement that I had to share it now." Prizes, Awards, etc.Internet Scout Report (October 7, 2005) Yahoo New and Notable (Sept. 19, 2005) Backwash Top 40 (Dec. 5-?, 2005) Mac's Picks of the Week (Dec. 12, 2005) Okdork.com's 2006 Guide to the Internet top 10, #2 (Jan. 2, 2006) Blogger's Blogs of Note (June 14, 2006) PC Magazine's 5 best services of 2006 (November 29, 2006) Mashable's Social Networking Awards, People's Choice Niche category (December 24, 2006) "Look! An easy way to catalog and share your personal library! I am ridiculously excited about this, really." "I'm so doing this just for the sheer glee I feel organizing things." "Oh, Library Thing. Where have you been all my life?" "I Think I'm in Love" "Right now the service is in beta, but the user interface is a dream and I can only imagine it will get better." "So the future is coming, and Library Thing is a step in that direction." "Wow! I've been looking for something like this for years. It's perfect!" "a book geeks myspace" robotrobotson (user: redbike "I highly recommend this service to any lover of books." A Librarian's Journal / Brian Ferguson "In a matter of a few minutes you can add books to your online catalog, tag Ôem, and rate them using a star system. Based on your selections, you can then see who else shares your excellent taste in their own book arsenals. Think Facebook for books." "It really took no more than two minutes to understand how it works and why I absolutely needed it since I was born. I subscribed, and will spend the rest of my life asking myself how did I get it up to now. Bravo, bravo, bravo from Italy." Patrizia (by email) "This is one of the greatest discoveries of all time. Jeff told me about it a little while ago (about 30 minutes ago) and I've already entered what few books I have here in Mobile. LibraryThing.com. Absolutely great. You need to check it out. And here's a link to my personal library (when I get to New Orleans, I might find that some are salvageable, and then I'll add them to the library. Until then, it's very small.) So cool." "It is quite a lot of fun to watch how my overlap changes as I enter books, and to see what books are common and which are not." "librarything.com is AWESOME. ... This is great for all of us writers who are almost always book readers, too!" "I think this is cool, and I'm not even a librarian." "Been cataloging my library on librarything.com and I donât think my blood pressure can take it." Desperately seeking retirement "LibraryThing has pretty much everything I've ever wanted in a library tracker, especially ease of use." "Be still, my yearning heart." "Also LibraryThing is so ace, am getting lots of recs from other users who share the same books - like I have 79 books in common with one particular user, so I can look at her shelf for recs as we obviously have v. similar tastes." "The Library Thing will also crunch numbers for you in all manner of giddiness-inspiring ways: it will break down your library by language of publication or origin, by year of publication or date of entry; it will tell you if any of your books are owned by just one other user so that you can seek out the other misfits who were drawn to this strange corner of the literary world; it will even turn your list of authors into an alarming diagram which reveals that your snooty graduate school tastes will never outpace your secret love of mysteries and fantasy." "i'm seriously smitten." "I've gotten completely hooked on this website, librarything.com. You can catalog your entire book collection. Yes, it's a bit obsessive, but when it comes to books, that pretty much defines me." "Aaiirgh! It's The Thing! Run away, run away!" "I like the community of LibraryThing too. How else would I know that a librarian in Dublin, Ireland owns 48 of the same books I own? Or how else would I know that the three users who own Phyllis Richmanâs The Butter Did It also all own Willa Catherâs Death Comes for the Archbishop?" " simply must hop and down, shriek, and gestictulate wildly in the specific, shining direction of this." "There are other sites like this, but this seems like one of the simpler ones to work with to me." "My stars and little fishes! Library Thing ... has just come up with a version you can use on your cellphone! Think about this. There you are in your neighborhood used bookstore and you see some title you want to buy, but you can't remember whether you already own it or not. Poof! Use the internet function of your cellphone to call up Library Thing's mobile URL, enter your user name to log in, and search your catalog for the title in question. Brilliant!" "Here's something that looks interesting and full of possibilities" "I have a new obsession. It really shouldn't surprise anyone because my love of books is far from secret, but LibraryThing has taken over my online life." "Within a few clicks you can find other people who enjoyed Jonathan Livingston Seagull - even start a dialog of sorts with them by commenting on their user profile - while also finding other books like it you might be interested in that they recommend. Well, that is if you are into reincarnating seagulls." "I'm still in love with LibraryThing." "I realize I'm geeking out here, but this is really cool..." "And if you're really feeling geeky, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds for your contacts and see what they're adding to their libraries. Why buy if you can borrow? ;-)" "Tonight LT was also revealed to me and already my life has changed. I'm resolutely not an internet person in fact I've never done this before. What in God's name is blogger. I'm not sure about choosing an 'identity' but here goes..." "Why wasn't I told of this before?" "I like that you can make comments/reviews and track when you read the book. This will be helpful for me as I tend to forget a book the second I finish it." Do as I say, and I will be your slave. "LibraryThing is a supercool online utility that lets you easily (oh, so easily!) create a catalog of the books you own or the books you are reading. I am using it to simply keep track of the books I read, because 1) I want to be able to brag with actual numbers about how much I read and 2) sometimes I forget whether or not I've read something already." "If you're a book nut or a list maker, you'll be in heaven. If you're both, you may need a cigarette or cold shower after visiting." "Hey bibliophiles, this is a really cool site!" "Love the idea of Delicious Library, but not necessarily the $40 it costs? Or love Delicious Library, but long for a way to share? To browse others libraries, allow them to see yours? ...Well, here you go..." "it's perfect for the anal retentive in me." "I think it's awesome. I would love to show you all my books! I would love to show me all my books! I love my books! In cataloging my books, the first thing I noticed was that I need more books! Seriously!" "if you're a dork you might love this as much as i do" "It is a nifty tool for keeping track of your books, when you got them, when you read them, what you thought about them." "Among a thousand more fantastically hip time-wasters, you can find other libraries "eerily similar" to yours, get recommendations, see your library on the internet (with pictures, of course), and even organize your books. But I can't do it justice. Check it out. It's addictive." "Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Personal cataloguing of books! I won't be available for the next several weeks because I will be doing this!" "Today, I lost my heart to LibraryThing." Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee "Now, a webpage that endorses the similarities and differences in the most solitary of all activities, and the one that makes us be more humane than any action done with another being... READING...." "Create an account for yourself and see if you're not hooked in 5 minutes!" Joe Wikert's Book Publisher, Author and Online Publishing Blog "LibraryThing is designed to connect book lovers with each other, and above all, act as a waypoint for those who enjoy books to learn about new books (or books that are new to them)." "If you one of those people who keep every book that you have ever read prominently displayed in your house for all to see, social networking and web 2.0 now has a site for you." "groovy online service" "Picking Up Girls On Myspace? I'd Rather Read A Book!" "But I like it and I like it because its easy. It is so easy that I have been entirely sucked in and in large part because I am not naturally gifted at order and the drudgery of data entry is, well, drudgery. With Library Thing I can catalogue all of my books and it couldn't be any easier. Somebody out there other than me may like it as well and I sit with smug satisfaction of having sent them there." "The UI is a dream." "LibraryThing is the most book-oriented and sophisticated, and it's the place where the real book freaks will go." "I got sucked in pretty hard and entered most of my collection last night..." "It's like Flickr but for your book collection." "All in a user friendly, social networking schema." "Very addicting." "it's kind of like last.fm for your book collection." "I think Last.fm wants to be for music what LibraryThing is for books." [That's CRAZY--Last.fm is so cool! - Ed.] "For those of you who do actually read and take pride in your bookshelf..." "this is a truly wonderful thing." "This library thing is just.. so awesome. It's free, it's fun, it looks at what kinda books you collect and then uses that data to determine what other books you would most likely enjoy. SO AWESOME." "For complete organization nerds like me a website to help catalog all of the books in my collection is the ultimate." "This is not only a great way to see how strange or mundane your library is but also to discover new titles, recall old titles that you have read and forgotten and to find new authors." "LibraryThing is the most innovatibe 'Book Thing' I have seen in years. ... [it] is jammed with innovative features and filled with possibilities..." "Any bibliophile can get lost in there for hours on end." "it's del.icio.us for the bookish." "Yeah. "If the first thing you check out in someone's home are the book titles on their shelves (assuming in this day and age that they even have books) you'll get a kick out of it." "Whatever it is, it makes my little editor's heart very happy." "I can have hours of fun with this..." "It is so fun to see everything all organized and looking snazzy!" "I found Librarything, which is providing me with all kinds of amusement." "You want something sweeter and cooler than my space? How about an online networking site that has a point to it?" "it's quite possibly the best internet thing I've used since Blogger." Unquenchable Songs and Endless Praise "If anyone was still wondering whether there was a god just for bibliophiles, LibraryThing has removed all doubt." "it's easy and fun to use, especially when you add their "Add to LibraryThing" button to your toolbar!" "You can catalog all of your books online and see else has your books and leave comments and just browse and be happy with all the electronic evidence that reading isn't dead." "Now when I get a new book, it updates my blogs and website to let people know what I'm reading. Geeky fun." The Blog of Stephen and Tammy Anthony "Ok I am hooked." "It's insanely easy." "Think flickr except with book titles instead of photos." "It's almost as addictive as myspace and about 10 times as nerdy" "I like it!" "LibraryThing proves that social networking isn't just for strippers, bands, and needy teens - it's also for book lovers. If you're a book lover and not too secretive, visit as fast as you can." "It's impossible to get enough of Librarything!" "www.librarything.com blows me away and sucks up my day/night/day/night." "the most fabulous thing. Ever. No, seriously." "awesome new features being added what seems like daily." "LibraryThing is not merely a way to keep track of the books we own, itÕs a fiendishly clever way to get more books. ... Our wish list is growing again." "So, LibraryThing now has Groups, bringing it one step closer to becoming the Myspace for bibliophiles." "You can check your bookshelf quickly and easily from your mobile phone while you are standing in the bookstore trying to remember which books you've read by a prolific author. Catch me quick, I'm about to faint. I heart LibraryThing." oz: the blog of glinda sims (the goodwitch) "The site LibraryThing seems destined to succeed." "i can't seem to stop updating my library" "be forewarned. LibraryThing has almost quadrupled the size of my amazon wish list and has me searching the used book sites to replace missing titles" "Cool site for tracking books you've read or are in your library" "Perhaps one of the best things about Library Thing is that you don't have to do a lot of typing." "something fantastic for bibliophiles." "Not only am I hooked, I'm shameless about it." "Check it out, but watch out, youÕll find yourself spending hours cataloging your books." "It really is a cool thing, and the booklogging is much easier than I expected. Keyword search! No nasty ISBN typing!" "my new big thing" "If the first thing you check out in someone's home are the book titles on their shelves (assuming in this day and age that they even have books) you'll get a kick out of it" "LibraryThing has what most community websites never achieve - critical mass." "Like crack cocaine, it is." "Fanning the flames of bibliophiliac geekery" "My love of LibraryThing knows no bounds." "oh god. this is SO MUCH FUN." "[I] find, weirdly enough, libraries that match my own in spooky detail." "one of the neatest uses of the internet" "It's fun; it's interesting, and who know where it will lead." tracking changes/changing tracks "really innovative new Talk feature that could make Librarything even more potentially addictive." "Tim Spalding has taken discussion forums a big step forward over at LibraryThing. The concept is simple but could make a real difference because it allows forum msgs to be aggregated in multiple ways." David Weinberger, Many-to-Many "[Talk] improves the discoverability of and navigability to content that's potentially buried in long--or even old--discussion threads." Dave's Microsoft Communities Stuff "how neat is that?" "I found the most fantastical, marvalicious, yummy, scrumptious website ever in the history of the world. I have no idea why I have never ever seen it before. ... Where was it hiding??? But I'm not going to worry about that because we are together now, never to be split apart." "The temptation is to use Library Thing, not simply as an efficient cataloguing tool, but as a way to present yourself to the world..." "Wow, this is my kind of community based website." "The thing I really like is that you can choose what data source you use; there are 45 of them...The book recommendation engine is much better than Amazon's own, if you ask me." "Reading is solitary by its very nature, but this takes the edge off it - at least for those of us who can't commit to a regular reading group or such like. It's a nig old world out there - chances are someone is reading the same thing as you!" "it's a pretty nifty tool" "I'm having so much fun with LibraryThing that it's almost pathetic." "...new features are constantly being added every day." "I think it might just be time to take all weekend and catalog my brain out." "The really cool thing is that you can generate clouds either by tag, author etc." "The cool part is where you can browse your friends' libraries, and if you have the same book they do, you just click on 'Add to my library.'" [On the blog widget] "It's like a bookshelf on your blog." "LibraryThing Is So Rad" "Man oh man I'm loving Library Thing!" "if you haven't tried that out, you should get over there soon" "It's a fun site if you like books at all, and it's very easy to use--and free" "You simply type the title, a list comes up, you click the book that's yours, and that's it." "...infected me with another internet addiction"... "The sheer number of options is staggering; you can tag your books, compare collections with other LibraryThing users, and even connect with others that have similar interests." "It's the internet incarnation of those wonderful old wood card catalogs with the tiny brass-labeled drawers, only much simpler to use." "On LibraryThing, your own list of books isn't in a vacuum. You're not just putting up things that you happen to own; you're putting up components of your cultural identity. Just as when you're appearing on a TV show, or writing a blog, you're creating an on-line simulacrum of yourself." "I am in love with this site. You can add in comments on each book, reviews, ratings, tags (like: have read, own, want, fantasy, sci-fi, etc) and link to other people's lists and reviews as well." "Anyway, I was beside myself with glee when I discovered Library Thing recently. I feverishly started inputting my favourite books into my virtual library for little other reason than to see the old bibliographic automagically appear before my very eyes again." "This website has got all the elements of dork appeal that I love so well." "It's a Nerd Thing... And a book-lover thing. It's Library Thing!" "Library Thing gets two thumbs up from me, and I'm looking forward to exploring it even further." "this is a great way to find out about other books you might like too." "a pretty fun little toy." "LibraryThing rocks." "the mad need to catalogue brought on by www.LibraryThing.com has fully bloomed and this seemed like exactly the next step I need to take. Yes, it is an affliction. A welcome affliction, but a disease all the same." Life is too short to read bad books "There is so much wonderful information about books on that one site." "I was surprised at the small amount of time it took to sign up. There were no lengthy forms, just your username and password." "I don't know why it's so addictive. It just is." "It resembles some functions on Amazon.com, but it's oriented more towards social functions than commerce." "This is one of the best sites on the web today..." "what could possibly be more fun than an online catalogue of all your books? I tell you I can think of very few things, and certainly nothing that you can do without the aid of a woo woo or two. Because a book catalogue is not just a list. Oh no. It's about peering into your soul." "Sort of like Flickr, but with books. This could be bad. Or this could be very, very good." "LibraryThing rocks." "I found this site extremely easy to use. Probably the easiest thing I've signed up for and used online and I thought it was fun too." "The interface is simple - I decided "Oh, I'll enter a few books as a break from work" and the next thing I knew I had 87 books in the system." "It's such wonderfully time consuming fun, isn't it?" "It's a mash-up of several things I really enjoy: books, thinking about books, looking at my books, talking about books, meeting people who like the same books I do, and leveraging internet technology to engage in our real-life passions and interests in new, dynamic and global ways." "I've only added books I've read this year and based on those, the service is suggesting quite a few which I've previously read, which is, in other words, pretty much smack on target." "It's also a great visual to how many books you've actually read in your life...." "it's utterly wonderful!" "It's a nifty way to keep track of all those great books other people recommend that you jot down on scraps of paper that never seem to be with you when you finally get to the library or Borders." "Really a very well-designed site." "In case you guys have wondered what deep dark hole I've fallen down... it is called LibraryThing, and I am addicted. Be careful, or you will find yourselves addicted too." "the user interface is rich, intuitive, and gorgeous" "Can you see the obsessive compulsiveness bubbling?" "I know I praised Library Thing several posts ago, but I must do it again, because they just added a feature that is pretty sweet. Now, you can search My Library right in the side bar, with out leaving the page." "it's very easy to do, you search for books by title, author or ISBN, click on the one you want...and it's in your library" "It's kind of paradise for book freaks like me!" "It is a fun way to organize books." "... totally cool and addictive..." "O LibraryThing ! O constant purveyor of new internet delights!" "I love Library Thing. I love the name, I love what it does, & I love the idea of spending some quality weekend time with it." "Sort of a virtual bookshelf, searchable, commentable, sortable." "I was going to get a lot of things done while my roommate was out of town for a week, but I didn't. I blame LibraryThing." "What is especially noteworthy to fellow bibliophile bloggers is that LibraryThing allows you to create widgets for your blog's sidebar." "Very satisfying." "it's pretty sweet." "I have seen the term "geekgasm" used around the internets, and I think I understand the full meaning of the word now..." "This is amazing and just what I was looking for." for a good life, we just might have to weaken "incredibly fast and simple" "I couldn't help it! I had to get on this thing!" "This website is really cool, you can upload your book collection, read book reviews, get reccommendations, and chat on a message board about your favorite books." "This is perfect for blogs that talk about books. All those book covers will also appear on the widget if you set them that way. Maybe you could even schedule your blog entry postings so that you could use the recent books option and review those recent books on your blog at the same time! What are you waiting for? Go to Library Thing, sign up and get those widgets" "Man, this is my Site of the Year. Add your library, find out who has collections most similar to you, find out what books you should read next. Hi." "It is a cool way to see what others are reading or (if they are like me) how they define themselves through books." "Though there are other cataloguing programs available (and I've mucked with some in the past) there's something sort of cool about being able to maintain your collection online at a consistent web address. Makes it easier when someone says, "Hey, you got any good books?" You can just answer, "Here, check out my collection."" "Cool hey!" "What a smart idea! Using the existing library catalogs to build our personal library catalog, and also links people with similar reading taste!" "an excellent way to present to my book club members our previously read books." "Isn't this fun? Is it just me? Do I have too much time on my hands?" "Chamomile tea and one-thirty in the morning and I want nothing more than to stay up cataloging books." "LibraryThing is the last.fm for books. In a nutshell." "The implication is that if you own a set of books that overlaps with the books another person owns, then the books that don't overlap are likely to be interesting to each other. ('Oh, you like that book? Then you should read this one!')" "easy and simple to use." "Cool bits include: the 'Joy' section, spreading all kinds of holiday cheer; translations in over twenty-five tongues (including Thingamabraian, some dude's 'ideal language'); tag options; and ease of navigation at a third-grade level." "I think I just may have a use for this puppy." "This site is really a wonderful tool for sharing information about books. You can rate them, trade them, recommend them and chat about them in the forums. If you don't use Library Thing yet, I strongly suggest you go over there and check it out. The more people that use it, the better the conversations there!" "MySpace/Tribe for Bibliophiles" "For people who love books, or love organizing things, or both, itÕs really a fun little site." "a huge online book club" "LibraryThing is a very good thing." "They're able to do things I've never seen any library do. LibraryThing moves at the speed of light." Beyond the Beyond [Overheard at IDEA2006] "One of the really fun areas of library thing is the Zeitgeist tab which gives insight into top-rated authors, lowest-rated authors, top taggers, books added in the past 24 hours, etc..." About: Contemporary Literature "This is a cool thing; a LibraryThing to be exact." "Holy crap, this is the most fun an on-hiatus librarian can have outside of a bricks-and-mortar building." "'Yo, it's like MySpace, but for dudes who read.' That's how one friend put it. I'd prefer to think of Librarything as a mildly pretentious social cataloging application that allows you to share your taste in books with other literates (or thingamabrarians as they like to refer to themselves on the site)" "As a book-lover and a library cataloguer, I find this doubly intriguing" "it has already become to me as essential as Last.fm and flickr. In a word, it's brilliant." "LibraryThing allows folks to expand on the popular blogger topic of 'what books are on my nightstand.'" "I am once again infatuated with using Library Thing." "fast & easy to use" "Excellent tools for book-tracking and whatnot." "best thing that ever happened to my library..." "who can resist a barcode scanner that looks like a cat and promises to work with LibraryThing to give you a great home-grown online-catalog? Mine is on its way, watch out world!" "It's extremely cool. You'll find it a lot easier to use than off the shelf library software" "It's easy-to-use, intuitive and if you spend a little time on defining decent tags, can give you a very good idea of what others with similar interests are reading." "It's addictive, I swear!" not to shiver at an english winter "And it's a dream come true for perfectionists like me who want to upload their own scanned book covers. It's so much fun to see that there are other readers out there who share the same exact book as me, yellow cover and all." "Not only can you catalog your library with ease, but you can find other users with the same taste and interests. LibraryThing creates a great community of readers." "It does what I want(ed) del-icio-us to do! It sorts through the libraries of other users and finds the people who have the same books you do (not all, of course, but overlaps) and calculates the ranking taking into account rarety (or banality) of the books-in-common." "a cool book-centric social networking site." "a very intuitive web application." "If you have any sort of interest at all in books, or have a collection that fills a bookcase or two, LibraryThing is your cup of tea. It's certainly mine." "Well, I think it's rad. So there." "Its social bookmarking for books, and its addictive." Better Living through Chemistry "not only can you catalog your books easily, but since it's an online community database, it will offer you suggestions from other people's personal libraries that have similar book tastes as you! how cool is that?" "I like the way you can create a new account just by pretending to sign in." "This site is as addictive as myspace!!!" "WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" "Other cool features are the color cover photos, the customizable search by tags, the personal ratings, and seeing how many other people own the same books I do" "It's got great features, like an author gallery with pictures of some of the authors of my books, and it's really easy to use." "In case you don't know about librarything, it's basically a site where you list your books and tag them connect with other people and dammit, it's cooler than that. Just go. It's free." "Of all the applications currently available, LibraryThing is the only one that succeeds equally well as both an online cataloging tool and a social space." "a social high-tech interface to the less-social low-tech world of people's collection of books" "I love it, I love it, I love it." "This is a great idea and it is very well done." "librarything goes into orbit by integrating your library with millions of other books cataloged by people all over the globe." "It makes me happy." "Very, very, very easy to do. Very!" "LibraryThing is just perfect: a simple but great work of genius, and I couldn't have asked for anything better." "It's brilliant." "It's amazingly easy to register and use." "A fantastic site for bibliophiles who are interested in not only organizing what they have, but discussing books, authors, and genres. You can rate texts, review books, and see how others around the world rank the same books on your own shelf! The Unsuggester might keep you rivoted to your computer for a while, just to check and double check that it is reading your mind correctly! Muhaha! No, seriously... go check it out. I promise it's addictive!" "It's also not gaudy, has no hidden clauses, and unites people not on "u look pretty" but on what they choose to read." "Best of all, you can see which other user you have most in common with, and you'll get a kick out of seeing which handful of users have the same obscure book in their collection." "this site is manna from heaven" "holy #@^@%, Does LibraryThing (hereto-after referred to as LT) rock as a powerful social net app." "LibraryThing is the perfect combination of two of my favorite past times: list-making and voyeurism." "Catalog your library and see who your bibliophilactic soulmate might be!" "I found LT to be among (if not the) most intuitive, easy to use, fantastically fast interface of any social site IÕve seen yet." "This is the site that I have been waiting for!" "For the record IÕve used both LibraryThing and ReaderWare and can recommend both - ReaderWare is fine if you want a self-contained database on your computer; IÕve mentioned LibraryThing many times here - itÕs a great web-based cataloging solution with lots of extra features, plus a good source of book information even if you donÕt want to catalog your books there." My Mind on Books: books on the mind, consciousness, cognitive scienceÉ "I use Library Thing, which I like. I was reading in other places that some people donÕt like it. Like, itÕs too meticulous or something? ... sometimes I just like to look over my list and I feel somewhat accomplished that IÕve read those books and that I still read regularly. Plus I just love the list aspect of it. It warms my OCD-riddled heart." "Of all three of the book cataloging sites I have tried, I still favor LibraryThing. It may not be as pretty, but it does have the most useful features, at least in terms of what I am looking for and want in a site for keeping tabs of my books. LibraryThing is easier to navigate when I want to look at books with certain tags, tag multiple books at once, and pull up various lists based on criteria I am interested in searching under. And of course, the Early Review program is a big bonus." "The great thing about LibraryThing is that you can talk to other users and find out what it is that they want. LibraryThingÕs blog also enhances that transparency by responding quickly to the needs/wants of users (unheard of from most traditional library vendors). If I want to email for help, IÕve got six names and addresses a single click from the homepage. It makes LibraryThing seem like theyÉwellÉcare." clifflandis.net: tech tech tech tech BOOM "Poteva mancare il flickr dei libri?" "Prima Idee und praktisch umgesetztes Web 2.0!" "una herramienta fantástica" "Disponible en una gran variedad de lenguajes, incluyendo el español." "L'organizzazione del proprio 'scaffale' virtuale è molto duttile, e oltre a questo ci sono le solite opzioni, molto internet 2.0, di social networking: trovare gente che ha letto gli stessi libri, commentare, recensire." "Il existe de nombreuses fonctionnalités, dont la possibilité d'importer et d'exporter." "Creo que una de las causas del éxito del sitio es poder ordenar en la pantalla tu biblioteca o colección a través de las portadas de los libros (como en la imagen). Para un bibliófilo es importante." "LibraryThing ist so etwas wie del.icio.us für Bücher. Oder eine erweiterte Form der Buchempfehlungen von amazon." "L'idée est à la fois simple et géniale" "el Last.fm de los libros." "Librarything, que permite catalogar todos os livros da nossa colecção e organizá-los por tags. E é muito fácil e rápido de utilizar! Depois, também há as comunidades com gostos semelhantes, tops, etc..." "Librarything.com é como um last.fm para livros." "J'ai trouvé un nouveau gadget pour nerds..." "Croissance et innovation puisqu'il réunit le meilleur des deux mondes, folksonomies ET taxonomies." "Simple et assez brillant. ... C'est formidable ! "LibraryThing é minha nova cachaça. E que cana!" "Das ist wirklich verlockend einfach." "El dÃa de hoy descubrà un pequeño tesoro en linea: Library thing es precioso. Puedes catálogar todos tus libros y con la ayuda de Amazon es facilisimo. Estoy impresionada y llevo toda la tarde catalogando y creando pequeña biblioteca." "Tout ça est très web 2.0, non ?" "C'est formidable !" "Je m'en vais suivre l'évolution de tout ça..." "L'interface est très claire et le temps de réponse lors d'un ajout de livre est très court." "E a sua biblioteca pode ser servida via RSS!" "LibraryThing tiene varias listas de libros que me recomienda, dados los que ya le dije que tengo (apenas llevo como 160, que son como la mitad de los que hay en mi librero). La lista es fabulosa y ecléctica. Y muy acertada, en mi opinión, con títulos que ya tengo pero no le he dicho, muchos otros que conozco de fama y que definitivamente he querido leer y muchos otros que suenan muy interesantes." "Me parece una idea estupenda, teniendo en cuenta que los programas de catalogación suelen ser bastante costosos, ofrecer la posibilidad de catalogar tu biblioteca mediante la web con una herramienta que a primera vista es bastante potente para el usuario doméstico..." "Avec le web 2, ça donne un site où échanger des idées et des recommandations avec d'autres amoureux des livres, sur n'importe quel sujet." "je trouve ça génial de pouvoir archiver ses lectures sans devoir chercher soi-même toutes les images et autres infos." "LibraryThing.com permet de garder traces des livres qu'on lit ou qu'on a lu, de les taguer et de partager ces infos avec d'autres." "O LibraryThing é o máximo e eu estou a adorar." "Librarything est une des choses les plus excitantes qui soit arrivé dans le monde des bibliothèques depuis plusieurs années." legrenier : toute la nostalgie du futur, avec de vrais morceaux de passé "Voici une application sociale particulirement intressante. On peut l'utiliser pour cataloguer ce que nous sommes en train de lire ou encore inventorier toute notre bibliothque. LibraryThing est un outil web, simple et de qualit qui nous permet de s'approcher de ceux qui s'intressent aux mmes livres que nous." Le blog de Jeannot Chapdelaine "For a book whore, Library Thing is a blessing and a curse all rolled up in one evilly tempting and easy-to-use package." A blog in Farsi and Another! |
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"Web application LibraryThing lets you catalog all the books you own and use tags to organize your collection. Add book titles by entering a title and viewing search results from the Library of Congress or Amazon. ... LibraryThing is an impressive cataloging app that feels like del.icio.us for books." "both entrancing and evil" "What a fabulous invention." "one of the Seven Wonders of the Web" "I was pleased with the ease of inputting my books, the ability to merge information from Amazon.com and the Library of Congress, and the ability to leave my library open to comments from other users. The interface is simple, practical, and not over-designed. Clearly, thought has been given to the user experience of actually inputting your book-list, and it only took me about twenty minutes to input over a hundred books." "[a] magical thing" "My hat is off to Tim Spalding for a beautiful piece of work. I just added my first 100 books to LibraryThing and I am in LOVE!" "Oh. My. God. I have not been this excited about the Internet since I 'discovered' blogging." "I discovered LibraryThing last night, and it is seriously the best thing that has ever been on the internet." "It's excruciatingly easy to add books (by title or ISBN), and you can add tags to each title, too." "I'm so worked up that I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight." eengah (detailed review) "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." "I have to admit that this free library cataloging service is pretty cool! It is actually state of the art also." "Fairly amazing application - lets you catalog your books - you type in a title, and it looks at the Library of Congress or Amazon to fill in the rest. Great stuff!" On LibraryThing: "Highly recommended" (top place) On Delicious Library: "Okay, we've cataloged our books and now they sit, like the Terracotta Army, silent and noble. And then what? Do we bring friends over and brag?" PowellsBooks.BLOG (guest blogger Kevin Smokler) "Timothy Spalding has put together this really interesting site, called LibraryThing, that lets you list your books, tag them, and share the list with others. One of the cool things: You enter a book into your list by typing in sloppy information." David Weinberger (author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined) "oooh fun! ... It's nice for once just relying on someone else to do the cataloguing - no worrying about incorrect deweys or bad subject headings!" Blogs in Welsh that are talking about LibraryThingPodcasts in Norwegian that discuss LibraryThing"...has to be one of the most cracktastic sites I've ever been on." "an elegant piece of work" See also... (detailed review) "I'm not sure why, but this brings me great joy." "This is beyond cool." "Everyone who's been telling me about LibraryThing, you were SO right. I love it!" "Check it out! You can catalog your own books online! How cool is this?!" "LibraryThing is awesome! Very easy to use and quick. ... It's actually quite soothing and even a bit addicting." "I will never work again!" "Also, it's worth pointing out that .. [LibraryThing takes] more of a library approach than most .... A lot of the others seem to be emulating a bookstore/publisher model, which is more inventory than cataloging..." "I know this is super nerdy and only for the book lovers, but my gosh I am just digging this. This is my new timesink. " thought of something like this over two years ago. I told some people I knew who worked at Amazon that Amazon should do it. They agreed. It looks like Amazon didn't get around to it. Tough luck for them." "... this blog is becoming more and more about Librarything, it's really addictive" "I fear this may become at least as big as LJ in my life. Being able to see what books I have in common with others? This is dangerous." "I love it, I have to admit, because when I put in my most recent reads, it helped me map out my next set of books by showing me what others that read like me have in their shelves." "This is the coolest thing ever." "The best idea since Flickr" "Isn't is amazing that the simplest ideas tend to be the best? I should have thought of this!" "LibraryThing is CHANGING MY LIFE" "I love LibraryThing more every time I use it." "Great. There goes another, like, hundred hours of my life." "Best. Site. Ever." "f you are a bit of a list freak, welcome to your dreamland. Not only do you catalogue your books, you can see who has a similar library to you, post reviews and get recommendations for more books, based upon what other people have." "Did any of you people know about Library Thing? If you knew, were you avoiding telling me in order to protect me?" "One of these days, I want to invent an application as cool as LibraryThings that allows book lovers such as myself to catalogue and tag the books in their collection online. What's even cooler about the tool is that you can find users with similar collections and allow others to comment and make suggestions about other books you might consider reading." Ursula's Not So Secret History "I've been getting bugged to catalogue my books for years now and I'm finding that LibraryThing makes it really fast to add in a book." "You can export your catalogue as a CSV file. This is a big big big big plus!" "coolest website EVER" "The coolest thing yet! Catalog your personal library w/ style & grace." "I feel a mad enthusiasm creeping up on me" "Once you begin to use the tool, you can quickly tell that a librarian had some input on it. It really is amazing tool. I only hope libraries can offer OPAC as rich in functionality as LibraryThing." North Texas Regional Library System Well, *I* like the name..."While its got a ridiculously awful name, its really quite an interesting tool. ... Very interesting indeed." "Though it has a somewhat unfortunate (though descriptive) name, LibraryThing is an awesome tool for those of us with large book collections." "It's a nice idea, but I think they could have thought of a wittier name than LibraryThing." The Book Pile [what a witty name for a blog!] Per contra"Even the name is enough to make you feel warm." London Knowledge Lab: Social Software "A clever name for a clever technology." "this gets my vote ... for best name of a new service" "I love the straightforward, funky name of this Web site." "Finally, a site with a name that is more generic than mine. I love this idea." "Finally there's an easy way to catalog your books online, without software or downloads! ... LibraryThing is the greatest invention since the glorious smell of paper and paste melded together in the spine of an old book." "My life is now... "There's a little blog widget on the right hand sidebar that shows five random books from my library ... it'll say more about me than any profile ever could." "[T]his is the coolest fucking web application EVER. Seriously, this is what the internet should be all about: highly useful, easily accessible, flexible means of storing, sorting and retrieving information for cheap or free. I, like, wanna marry this website." "Man, is it cool." "I just discovered LibraryThing and I am just geek enough to hop up and down with joy!! Wow! Imagine being able to catalogue your entire personal collection of books!" "LibraryThing is the best thing that has ever been on the internet if you like books." <keanu> "I can't think of anything more wonderful." "I want to write a loving poem to it and send it a box of chocolates." "The site kicks ass!" "It's an easy-to-use online database of your books. Now you don't have to invite people to the apartment to show off your book collection. That means more beer and food for you." "It is an enormous, wonderful time-sink" I'm just here to watch other people.... "It's far more useful than Flickr, and even more fun." "The service is an excellent blend of utilitarian usefulness and web 2.0 community goodness." "I had been admiring the bookshelf software called Delicious Monster, but LibraryThing is much better. It's net-based, and it's got the social aspects of del.icio.us and others." "library thing! oh how i love library thing!" "Throwing books on there is a snap- and they show up automatically with pictures and links to more info- woohoo! try it- you'll see." "I am treating Library Thing like kryptonite. ... If I caught the cataloging bug, that would be it for me." "Cataloging your books has never been this easy...or more social!" "It's the coolest fucking thing on the planet." "This is what a commercial site like Amazon can't do: allow people to exchange recommendations and book reviews without demanding personal information." "I wish I'd discovered this before I'd purchase Delicious Library." "It sure is so way cool. Like, all the fun of going to people's houses and surreptitiously checking out their bookshelves, only without actually having to go to their houses, or be surreptitious." "As if I needed another online addiction. But it's so utilitarian and fun at the same time that I can't stay away." "It is a great site for cataloging your books, and has several unique features that make management and navigation very easy and pleasant." "I think I may be in love with it." "Pretty cool tool that allows you to quickly catalog your books at home and share this info with others." "... the basic Web 2.0 principle in effect is that if you're interested in the same things (books, sites, you name it) as me, i might learn some new things from what else you're interested in. Even better, you get the mix of the personal perspective (via folksonomic tags) with the more structured and authoritative Library of Congress subject headings." "LibraryThing is perfect for you." "Tim Spalding is my official hero of the week." "If you're a book-lover, you've gotta check this site out." "You'll know you're really addicted when you find yourself repeatedly paging through your library in graphical shelf view because it's just so satisfying to admire your collection, and checking your profile page to see if anyone new has cropped up on 'users with your books.'" "This thing is very cool." "The librarian in me is doing sommersaults!" "When I discovered LibraryThing last fall it was the beginning of a torrid love affair. The interface! The virtual library shelf! The community of readers! But most of all I fell in love with tagging. How empowering it feels to be able to develop my own access points to my book collection!" "Check this place out! It's for your personal library in general, but what a treasure trove for finding communities to discuss your favorite occult/pagan/related books, not to mention book reviews." Witchcraft and dark spirituality "Well, it sucked me in. ... The Fun Statistics are very fun indeed." "this is the coolest website ever" "You can take a look at the reading habits of people all over the world (including many, many bloggers)." "A warning for book lovers and obsessive personalities: this WILL hurt you. I came across Library Thing the other day, and being both a book lover and also somewhat obsessive, I can see this is going to be a problem. Think iTunes meets Flickr, only music is books... " "Like most other collector, I love to catalogue my stuff. I love it even more when there's pictures involved."
"pretty hip from what i've seen so far"
"Beware, oh ye bibliophiles, lest ye find this website that lets you catalog your books easily and then, if you like, track to see who has a similar library and what books theyÕre reading and would recommend. I say beware for ye shall surely become an addict, as I have."
"I think the most dangerous thing about this website is that it's basically cheap crack."
"...I'm madly, deeply obsessed with the author cloud."
"Browsing some other user's book collection is, of course, highly addictive in just the same, slightly indecent way that browsing someone elseÕs physical bookshelf is." "what a cool way to connect with other readers and find new books to add to your collection." "It is a wonderful web thingy." "Library Thing is like crack!!!!!" My Somewhat, Maybe, Sorta, Kinda, Brillant Career "You register (easy,) put in your personal books (very easy,) catalog (or tag) and review them as you see fit, take a look at your graphic bookshelf (cool,) and see who matches your reading tastes." "Just think, there are literate and intelligent people out there. I had quite forgotten." Library Clocks and Quagmire Cocktails "I took up Anon's (that's her tag, not just my ignorance) suggestion and got addicted to librarything. Oh oh, trouble that is." "I have found bliss in cyber form, and it is LibraryThing!" "Of course I went. Signed up. Created my own virtual library. It's pretty." "Want to meet people who absolutely adored Clifford the Big Red Dog as a kid? You can do it here. Need a recommendation for books on German history. Put those tag labels in the search option." "some of the matches are pretty spooky." "Tim Spalding: I love you." "It is my new favourite website (and some people at the Wall Street JournalÕs)." "it's kind of like a MySpace for avid bookworms, with the extra bonus that it has nothing to do with MySpace." "it's kinda fun to browse other's virtual bookshelves. It's like Facebook or Myspace for bibliophiles!" "It is one of the best sites ever." "Woohoo. At this rate, I hope they don't invent a MovieThing or a MusicThing because then that'd really be fatal for my social life." "I was late to work this morning just because you reminded me about LibraryThing, and I looked up to see if I had entered a particular book yet, and got stuck noodling around, changing the view, visiting other people's libraries... It's endless fun." "kind of neat for those rare books you figured you were the only person to own." "Good, nerdy fun." "Another official announcement: Miss Lonelyheart is falling down the virtual rabbit hole, and may never be seen or heard from again in the non-virtual world. She has stumbled upon bibliophilic procrastintion/internet networking of the worst kind. She is starting to think this must be what it's like to be a compulsive gambler." "Neato, neato I say!" "Maybe I'm a dork or I really like making lists, but I love this site already. I'm addicted." "So I put in a sampling of my books and then look to see other users who had similar ones. Well, I found this guy. Not only does he have my *exact* tast in books, but he lives in Iowa, and his astrological sign is cancer, just like mine." "I'm making Library Thing my homepage. Bibliophiles everywhere bow to your greatness." "I've found what might possibly be the coolest social bookmarking/networking website around." The Journey of a Sleep-Deprived Grad Student "This is a dream come true to me. The site is incredibly well-designed and so easy to use, I got up and running in about two minutes, but then spent the next two hours on it." "it took me all of 2 minutes to be sold on it." "that thing is addictive!" It may be years until the day, my dreams will match up with my pay.. "it's a cool way to meet other bibliophiles who share the same interests as you." "LibraryThing rocks my world. Rocks it! "It's a bit like Amazon.com's book suggestion engine on steroids." "It is yet another reason to be glad that we live in the age of the information super highway." "As a total book-a-holic, librarian wanna-be and frustrated organizer, this is the easiest way to catalog a library I've come across so far." "Brilliant." "The MySpace for Literature Lovers" "It's the perfect web based application for anyone with a decent book collection." "If you haven't taken a squizz at LibraryThing, it's got a lot of play potential - how many people have listed which title, tags, clouds, all sorts of amusement - you don't need to join or list any books to play there." "a wonderful site that p | ||