Half a million books!
LibraryThing users officially cataloged over a half-million books. I would be stunned if my capacity for that emotion hadn't been destroyed at 100,000 books. One million books by Christmas or bust!
I'm still waiting for the mainstream U.S. media to notice LibraryThing. If you agree, blog us. And tell your friends and neighbors, particularly if your neighbor is David Pogue, Walter Mossberg, Xeni Jardin or Hiawatha Bray. What's up with tech reporters and kick-ass names anyway?
In other news:
I'm still waiting for the mainstream U.S. media to notice LibraryThing. If you agree, blog us. And tell your friends and neighbors, particularly if your neighbor is David Pogue, Walter Mossberg, Xeni Jardin or Hiawatha Bray. What's up with tech reporters and kick-ass names anyway?
In other news:
- I returned from a tech conference in Boston, so I'm on LibraryThing 24/7 again. There were a few days there when no new features were added; can't have that!
- The forum at BookCrossing has discovered LibraryThing. If any blog readers are also Book-Crossers, I'd love to hear how you think LT and BC can work together.
- The book pile contest is still open, mostly because the prizes are all free memberships and I haven't built that feature yet... Flickr's got most of them posted. Great stuff.
- LT needs a forum. I think I may do one of my Mothboards. They're linear; I really hate threaded discussions. And I want something that doesn't look like the inside of a spaceship. On the other hand, a simple board would preclude people having open-ended discussions about books (as opposed to LibraryThing). But aren't there enough places for that?
- Strange LT Meme: Phantom Scribbler wrote "Do any other Library Thing users feel lonely when you see that you're the only one who owns a favorite book?" and suggested people blog about their "onlies." So far, only No Fancy Name has taken the bait.
posted by Tim at 1:40 AM
13 Comments:
yay, 500,000!
I really hate threaded discussions
you're weird. :) i really hate non-threaded discussions (such as most blog software).
anyway, i think a forum would be a good idea. it would certainly be better suited to bug reports and discussion of new features.
I also like the idea of a forum.
I am a bit puzzled by my "onlies" - I know from browsing other "libraries" that they are in fact shared books. I have mentioned this before, that some shared books aren't shown as shared books - is there a particular reason for this? - At first I thought it might be because they were different editions, but I have noticed that sometimes books are shown as shared when they are different editions.
I don't have a blog :( - can I share my "onlies" on a forum?
Congrats on half a million!!
I played the lonely-onlies game with Phantom and Julie. http://momm-eh.blogspot.com/2005/10/lonely-books-meme.html
As an Irish person with a lot of onlies I'm not surprised, sometimes it surprises me that they are indeed shared with other people!
A forum could be good.
Oops. I responded to the LJ RSS feed, thinking it was the LibraryThing community.
Congrats on reaching the half a million mark!
Oh, no. Not another forum! :-) Perhaps for now just a place to share bug reports and feature requests would do? That could probably just happen in this LJ community.
I'm forum-averse myself, but I don't think LJ is the right place for LT fans to collect. After all, most users aren't also LJ users.
The argument for a forum would be that LT has social features but no larger social context, apart from this blog. A good comparandum is the The BookCrossing forum. Maybe it's just me, but BookCrossing seems to me more of a niche idea than even LibraryThing. Yet it's been up so long and has so many users that its forums are very active.
Still, I'm open to ideas. I'm actually working on RSS right now, now forums.
Tim
Let me add my voice to those who would welcome a forum.
I would love a place where we could suggest changes and Tim could see which were welcomed and which were only an issue for one user.
I would love a place where I could report problems or issues which other users might have been able to solve or which were temporary glitches which Tim could report on, rather than having them stacked on the end of a blog entry on a completely different topic.
In particular, I would welcome comments on users' libraries. Why do you have so many books by Author X? What do you think of Book Y? Can you recommend just a couple of books by Author X? Do you know where I can get hold of a copy of Book Y. I am sure that there will be many, many more such questions once it gets going.
Yeah, the triangle doesn't work on Opera. I need to fix it, although frankly the error on Opera's side is quite severe—not allowing an image to function as a link if it's style moves it. It's a little down on my list because Opera is such a tiny slice of the market, and such a world unto itself.
how about a way to add others' tags to a book?
With the 'onlies' people are posting on the LJ community about them (though mine are rather boring on their own, hence why I'm not among the posters!)
http://www.livejournal.com/community/librarything/
I figured that posting something in the BookCrossing forum would get a bit of interest. :)
As for a forum here... maybe just for problems and such.
Not only did I mention it in my blog, I also mentioned it in a comment left on Neil Gaiman's.
When I visit a brick and mortar Library, there is always a "be quiet" area.
Threaded forums can get pretty noisy 4 sure.
Typing back and forth about what books you are reading, or have read, could get way too busy.
A seperate private dialogue between two librarything users would work.
With invite and acceptance of course.
The public forum would need a library monitor!
Shush........Terms Of Service :*)
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