200,000 books!
Users have now cataloged 200,000 books, and the pace is increasing day-by-day. Three quarters were cataloged in the last two weeks.
I expect LibraryThing to keep growing for some time. Not only do most users have a lot of books to go, but only a fraction of the world's book-lovers have ever heard of LibraryThing.
Bloggers—Thank you for blogging LT; it would never have gone anywhere without you. Bloggers who haven't blogged about it—What are you waiting for?
On a related note, LibraryThing will go down for scheduled maintenance at 2am Sunday morning EST. It will probably be down until 5am. When it comes up it will be ready for the next 200,000.
I expect LibraryThing to keep growing for some time. Not only do most users have a lot of books to go, but only a fraction of the world's book-lovers have ever heard of LibraryThing.
Bloggers—Thank you for blogging LT; it would never have gone anywhere without you. Bloggers who haven't blogged about it—What are you waiting for?
On a related note, LibraryThing will go down for scheduled maintenance at 2am Sunday morning EST. It will probably be down until 5am. When it comes up it will be ready for the next 200,000.
posted by Tim at 5:25 PM
13 Comments:
"On a related note, LibraryThing will go down for scheduled maintenance at 2am Sunday morning EST"
Hey, with the weight of over two hundred thousand books (on the cyber shelves), one does have to have SOME time rebuild the library. :*)
Suggestion. How about using GMT when announcing maintenance schedule? I think it's easier for LT users who are not from the US. Keep up the good work.
Also, I'm not sure whether you really mean EST or E*D*T ... daylight standard time is still on until Sunday, October 30, 2005 ;-)
As far as promotion goes-- I'm always glad to plug it on my blog, but what I'd really love is a t-shirt. Something tasteful, discreet, and witty-- say, the stack of books and a LibraryThing logo on the front, and a choice of book-related quotes on the back, preferrably available in a more fitted women's style (hint: the CafePress raglans are very nice)...
Of course, I know that maintaining this thing is turning into a huge time-sink, but it's something to think about if you get bored...
CafePress. Good idea. Very good idea.
I think I'm going to post a contest for a better stack of books. That was literally what I had in the dining room at the time. Choosing a single stack of books would be an interesting task for bibliophiles.
This isn't a time-sink. $10/member isn't much, but it's enough to justify doing this instead of my other activities (most of which are passive income anyway). That I'm full-time on this—if 18/hours-day is full time—is a significant advantage.
Designing a new logo could be fun - perhaps you could have people vote on the books they'd like in it :)
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but there's now a livejournal community at
http://www.livejournal.com/community/librarything/
One feature I haven't seen yet is a tag cloud for ALL books across the macro library. Much like flickr, it might be interesting to be able to search across all tags from a people-network perspective. So a cloud and search feature would be awesome outside of just my own library. If I want some "Russian Fiction" I could search on the two tags and come up with some new reading, even be able to email the owner of a title or titles to ask for their recommendation.
I know, I know, I'm a newbie with only "sub-100" books listed, and haven't paid yet. I promise, I'm on board. Just wanted to get my plug in as additional development work was being done.
Cheers!
the amazon.co.uk search seems to be a little fickle, it looks at the author but won't find the book by name or ISBN....
On amazon.co.uk searching - I've sometimes got it to work just on title. Sometimes it works if I captialise the first letter, sometimes it works if I capitalise the author's surname. It just isn't consistent.
I find that if after a couple of goes I still can't get it working, I search on amazon.co.uk itself and use the bookmarklet.
I'm really sorry about the Amazon search. It unnerving because I shouldn't have to do anything different US to UK, and the US is working fine. (I suspect therefore, the bug is on their end, but I'll probably be proved wrong somehow.)
Glad the bookmarklet is working, even if it is correcting for a deficiency... That's also odd, as it still needs to query Amazon. Maybe they're getting sniffy about the one-second rule (I'm supposed to stay below one seconds between requests). Amazon US doesn't mind if you do two in a second so long as you don't make a habit of it.
Am getting nothing but '
Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) in /home/virtual/site8/fst/var/www/html/amazonapprove.php on line 71
- fatal error (1)' since the site came back up. Is this something that will fix itself once traffic is quieter?
I love the idea of a T-shirt!!! I, who never, but never, wear a t-shirt to plug anything would wear one for you, with pleasure. I'm enamored. LibraryThing, you have my heart.
Or pretty nearly. ;)
Really, it's a great idea, and I'll even divert funds from book-buying to get one!
A T-shirt would be great!
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