Thing #11: LibraryThing
April 10, 2008I created an account with LibraryThing about a year ago but hadn’t done much wtih it. I took this task as an opportunity to really explore the possiblity of using this Web 2.0 tool regularly. LibraryThing is easy to use. it makes good use of Ajax programming. But, if you’ve ever used social bookmarking tool del.icio.us, you know how nicely delicious tracks your tags. As you are retyping a popular tag, del.icio.us will complete the tag (so you don’t chave to remember childrens v. children). This keeps things uniform and saves a lot of typing. it was such a pain to retype “middle grade reader” for all my entries into LibraryThing.
But that was the only inconvenience. Otherwise, I can forsee using LibraryThing as a personal tool for tracking what I’ve read. I’m not especially interested in the social aspect. However, it is interesting to see what tags others have given the books. I wonder what the ratio is of Librarian users to non-librarian users on LibraryThing.
I think LibraryThing is full of librarians! LT makes it very easy to keep track of all the children’s books that I’ve read. I love searching by cover or by my own tags. I use it all the time. Shelfari is another similar service, but I haven’t tried it yet.
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