Outside of a Dog » Libraries http://outsideofadog.edublogs.org a book is man's best friend. Inside it's too dark to read. Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:52:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 LibraryThing http://outsideofadog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/librarything/ http://outsideofadog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/librarything/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:49:22 +0000 Barbara Pollock http://outsideofadog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/librarything/ Like many book lovers, I love to hear what others have in their personal libraries. I also like to organize my own reading, keep track of what I have read and share books with others. I recently found the perfect Internet resource to help me accomplish all of these. LibraryThing. LibraryThing allows members to create records of their books, including tags and reviews, link to others who have read the same books as you, join groups with similar interests, read others opinions, and add friends. It is like a giant book club where I can share my reading experience with other bibliophiles.

Looking through the Zeitgeist I found there are 22,489,977 books cataloged on LibraryThing, by 340,466 members, the most review book is Harry Potter and the deathly hallows (553 reviews), the top book is Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone (26,523), in fact the top six books by number of entries are all Harry Potter, needless to say the top author by number of books is J.K. Rowling (168,095). The top rated book is The complete Calvin and Hobbes with a 4.88 out of five stars. The top favorite authors are Neil Gaiman (616), followed by J.R.R. Tolkien (597), Jane Austen (584) and J.K. Rowling (558).

LibraryThing supports two blogs. The LibraryThing Blog covers new features, plans and announcements like the recently completed Holiday Book Pile Photo contest. The Thing-ology Blog is for those interested in the methods and philosophy of LibraryThing.

LibraryThing has many other features that I will look at later. Right now it is providing me with hours of fun looking through others’ libraries and reading their comments.

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