Wednesday, January 10, 2007
You are an obsession.
Bloggers are great. In just about no time after publishing my nerdy desires last night, I was sent to Library Thing. And now I have just what I needed: a new obsession. I stayed up way too late last night, creating my account and then checking out other member's accounts. LibraryThing is the perfect combination of two of my favorite past times: list-making and voyeurism.
With LibraryThing, you can catalog your own library, rate books, write and read reviews, and get suggestions. In this way, it is very much like Netflix (have I told y'all how much I heart Netflix?). You can also check out other folks' reviews, ratings, and book stashes, and you can even join discussion groups based on like interests. And yes, I already checked: there is a knitting group AND a Harry Potter group! Squee!
The only thing I wish it had was a Wish List section (and who knows, maybe it does and I haven't found it yet), something like Amazon's Wish List. I'm finding a lot of books that I want to read, and it would be handy to have an easily accesible To Read list.
If'n you're interested, here is the online library I started last night. Click on "see catalog" for my list. I haven't had time to enter in more than a few books, but I plan to enter my entire library eventually. And if you are already a member or would like to start up a membership, please leave your profile URL or catalog URL in the comments. I'd love to stalk, I mean, check out your library!
With LibraryThing, you can catalog your own library, rate books, write and read reviews, and get suggestions. In this way, it is very much like Netflix (have I told y'all how much I heart Netflix?). You can also check out other folks' reviews, ratings, and book stashes, and you can even join discussion groups based on like interests. And yes, I already checked: there is a knitting group AND a Harry Potter group! Squee!
The only thing I wish it had was a Wish List section (and who knows, maybe it does and I haven't found it yet), something like Amazon's Wish List. I'm finding a lot of books that I want to read, and it would be handy to have an easily accesible To Read list.
If'n you're interested, here is the online library I started last night. Click on "see catalog" for my list. I haven't had time to enter in more than a few books, but I plan to enter my entire library eventually. And if you are already a member or would like to start up a membership, please leave your profile URL or catalog URL in the comments. I'd love to stalk, I mean, check out your library!
# posted by katie @ 7:29 PM 
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If you look on there, apparently it will import an Amazon wish list. I haven't tried it yet though, so I dont really know what that does.
If you look on there, apparently it will import an Amazon wish list. I haven't tried it yet though, so I dont really know what that does.
# posted by 
: 9:59 PM
: 9:59 PM
http://www.librarything.com/extras.php
If you look on there, apparently it will import an Amazon wish list. I haven't tried it yet though, so I dont really know what that does.
If you look on there, apparently it will import an Amazon wish list. I haven't tried it yet though, so I dont really know what that does.
# posted by : 10:02 PM
: 10:02 PM
http://www.librarything.com/extras.php
If you look on there, apparently it will import an Amazon wish list. I haven't tried it yet though, so I dont really know what that does.
If you look on there, apparently it will import an Amazon wish list. I haven't tried it yet though, so I dont really know what that does.
# posted by : 10:07 PM
: 10:07 PM
Welcome to the obsession. Rosemary has to help me knit today and tomorrow rather than enter my books. LOL
You can find me there as dragonsinger954 :)
You can find me there as dragonsinger954 :)
# posted by : 12:37 PM
: 12:37 PM
How cool! I've never heard of it! I'm going to check it out in more depth later tonight.
# posted by : 7:04 PM
: 7:04 PM
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=sanders
they also have a place where you can create a button for your blog that will rotate random covers from your library thing... I have one waaay down on my blog. Thanks for reminding me to update my library thing!
they also have a place where you can create a button for your blog that will rotate random covers from your library thing... I have one waaay down on my blog. Thanks for reminding me to update my library thing!
# posted by : 11:21 PM
: 11:21 PM
Thanks for the information, guys! Sounds like there are a lot of features I still need to learn about.
Dragonsinger and Fannie Pie--you're on my watch list! Thanks for giving me your user names!
Dragonsinger and Fannie Pie--you're on my watch list! Thanks for giving me your user names!
Geeeez, I'm such a follower, a regular Nanda-come-lately. I can be found on LibraryThing here:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=nanda
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