Neil Gaiman does the LibraryThing
I just discovered that Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods, Anansi Boys and other works (see his LibraryThing author page), dropped a mention of LibraryThing on his blog. So that's why twenty-nine visitors signed up last hour! Gaiman writes:
Aside: I shouted out the news to my wife in the other room. Neil Diamond's blog? The singer? Not yet. Not yet.
"Which I find, to be honest, an extremely attractive sort of website, and if I only had a month or so with nothing to do, I'd input my own books."I'll bet people would love to know what's on Gaiman's shelves, and those of a lot of authors. LibraryThing has a few authors already, such as Ann Douglas (profile/author page), a baby and parenting author. It needs more. Best selling authors are hard to incentivize. Would Mr. Gaiman take a free account?
Aside: I shouted out the news to my wife in the other room. Neil Diamond's blog? The singer? Not yet. Not yet.
posted by Tim at 5:03 PM
18 Comments:
Ohhhh... don't get me started on the authors' bookshelves I'd love to browse... *Homer Simpson drool*
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Gaiman rocks. I would love to see his bookshelf!
The funny thing about my author page is that _I_ don't appear on it, because I don't have any of my own books in my personal catalog. I'm an idiot.
And yeah, I owe you an email.
Couldn't Neil's assistant Lorraine obtain a barcode scanner somehow and take a few days inputting his books? Assuming enough of his books have barcodes so as to make it worth her/his time.
I third the "give him a free account" idea. "neilgaiman" isn't taken.
JM: Don't feel you owe me an email. I'm trucking along. I found two people on Dice that might fit the bill.
Is it moral to have someone else enter your books?
I think it would be really cool if more authors put their libraries up. One of the top questions my wife, an author, gets on tour is "What are you reading now?" I'm sure a lot of people would love to know what Gaiman was reading.
I sent a note to his publicist, in case he wants to do it. I'd be glad to give him or HarperCollins a whole bunch of free accounts.
I'm going to improve author pages soon, with links to website and so forth. It would be cool if, in some cases, an author page also linked to the author's catalog on LibraryThing.
Holy moley! Gaiman's blog is more powerful than anything else I've seen except for the Kim Kommando radio show. 2,100 books added this hour and it's almost midnight!
Okay, well, it's after midnight where I am and I am going to have to pack it in for the night. I was one of those ppl who got here b/c of Neil G's site and I have been merrily cataloging just about all night. Where has this site been all of my life???
All I know about Neil's library is that I think it's massive, disorganized, and for the Doctor Who fan out there, almost dimensionally transcendental. I don't think he's had to quite chain them down yet, but they seem to be getting the better of his house. I completely believe that he'd need a month to put them in. Poor Lorraine; I'm sure she'd enjoy scanning the barcodes of Neil's book collection about as much as she enjoys finding sand in the bottom of every third parcel she opens for him...
I don't sell as many books as Gaiman, but I've got a good readership, five novels in print, two forthcoming this year. And I will mention LT on my weblog again.
I also got here via Gaiman. This is a wonderful place you've made.
Just hit the 200 limit, but PayPal's down, so I guess it's time for sleep.
Ms. Donati: Great! For the rest of you, here's the author page.
I think I'm going to add a special section of authors on LT.
It would be really cool to see what Stephen King or Micheal Crition (sp?) is reading.
Sorry this is off topic.
I looked on the faq's page but I can't find a contact email, is there one?
I too made my way here from Neil Gaiman's mention of the site. I've just paid for my one year membership and spent an hour cataloging my first 160 books. (One bookcase down, 3 to go)
Unfortunately, Gaiman seems to think the site is called "mylibrary.com". And no commenting on his blog (for good reasons, I guess...). Good thing the link was right.
(And a funny observation: since all the Gaiman fans are flocking, his position on the author list is rising. Pretty close to pulling past Stephen King for third place.)
Off-topic comment, but I just wanted to thank Tim for recently adding more information to the HTML page titles! It's made it much easier to go back through my browsing history.
Thanks for noticing the titles. It was mostly for search engines. It's funny, but I work as a professional "search engine optimizer" from time to time. I didn't practice what I preached...
I'll be giving each book it's own "page" soon, getting rid of the "frames" structure. I'm a bit of a contrarian about frames, but I think the time has come to do it differently on LT.
I found my way here because of Neil Gaiman as well. I've read his journal for years now, it's the best blog on the web in my opinion. And oh man, would I love to see his bookshelves! I bought quite a few of the books in my collection because he mentioned them somewhere sometime.
Tim, you said you sent a note to Gaiman's publicist? If you drop a note from his Web page (look in the FAQ for how), it will get to him. He's said that he reads everything--no guarantee of an answer, but it is a direct line to Himself.
I'm sorry if I'm treading on your punchline by misunderstanding it - I am a bit slow on the uptake - but you know Neil Diamond does indeed have a blog -- of sorts -- at MySpace?!?
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