Milestones and Burgers
LibraryThing hit 4 million books this weekâthat's over a million in less than two months, and yesterday 42,000 more. We also topped 100,000 user contributed covers and 1 million unique books. We're growing like crazy over here. And thanks to the new servers, the Zeitgeist is even updating regularly!
To celebrate (ok, we were planning it anyway) we're having the first annual LibraryThing barbecue/picnic here in Portland, ME. You all are cordially invited - plan your vacations accordingly (Portland does have an airport, you can fly in just for the occasion).
We'll have burgers and other things to grill (vegetarian stuff too, since Abby-the-vegetarian has a say) and potato salad and chips and whatever else you're supposed to have at a barbecue. And you can meet me, and Tim, and our families - that right there should be incentive enough. Bring your babies and dogs, and we'll see you in August!
Saturday August 5th, around 5pm
28 Atlantic Street, Portland Maine
You can RSVP (email Abby) or just stop by! Email for directions or questions or food requests.
To celebrate (ok, we were planning it anyway) we're having the first annual LibraryThing barbecue/picnic here in Portland, ME. You all are cordially invited - plan your vacations accordingly (Portland does have an airport, you can fly in just for the occasion).
We'll have burgers and other things to grill (vegetarian stuff too, since Abby-the-vegetarian has a say) and potato salad and chips and whatever else you're supposed to have at a barbecue. And you can meet me, and Tim, and our families - that right there should be incentive enough. Bring your babies and dogs, and we'll see you in August!
Saturday August 5th, around 5pm
28 Atlantic Street, Portland Maine
You can RSVP (email Abby) or just stop by! Email for directions or questions or food requests.
posted by Abby at 12:41 PM
23 Comments:
mmm mm...sounds good! Wish I could get there! :)
I just want to say, I LOVE this search all fields tool. I'm having so much fun with it! I like being able to search for a tag as well as a word in my comments section - at the same time. So, I can find all my works tagged "violin" that have the song "Johnny comes marching home"...that's just COOL.
thanks. :D
Thanks for the invitation but like many of your overseas "librarians" I'll find it a bit difficult to get there this year; however I hope you have a great time. You might consider bringing the team to London sometime for an awayday at some time to allow your UK fan club to meet up!
When I next visit Portland I'll make a point of dropping by as I feel I've got to know you all in the short time I've been a member; you've established a very successful web site which I wish we could replicate in our business.
Good luck and thanks for all you're doing to help those of us with this particular form of OCD.
Awww, you Mainers have all the fun. At least post pictures for the rest of us.
Congrats on hitting 4 million. Civilization has come a long way: from barbaric "book burnings" to a happy LibraryThing barbecue celebrating the growth of a virtual world-wide library.
Oh, I would drop by if I could, but I can't :( If it was out here in Southern California I probably could make it.
Maybe we should have LT picnics in different areas of the country.
Rats, rats, rats. We are far too close (within a mile or so) but are going to have to miss it. I have just checked with She Who Must Be Obeyed and am told that we are going to be up in Tenants Harbor with my family that weekend (and to work on our schoolhouse restoration project (which, for a literary hook, is the one Sarah Orne Jewett used while writing Country of the Pointed Firs). We are al very sorry to miss this event. We will have a barbecue later in the month that you and Tim can miss *laughing*. I hope you have a great time and look forward to meeting soon.
very best,
ijk
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Ian J. Kahn
Lux Mentis, Booksellers
Antiquarian & Fine First Editions
211 Marginal Way, #777
Portland, ME, 04101
207-329-1469
http://www.luxmentis.com
I can't make it. Can you mail me a burger? Well done, everything, no cheese. Thanks.
We decided not to get into the fulfillment business, but Cafe Press can mail you a burger :)
Think of all of us who won't be able to make it to the barbecue - and have a wonderful time. I second (or third) the request for pictures - and a rotating schedule of LT meets/feasts!
Come to the Gulf Coast in March, and I bet enough of us can be wrangled together from nearby states to provide (or attend) a proper crawfish boil. (With plenty of alternatives for Abby. :) ) We might even supply sweet potato-pecan pie or sweet potato AND (bourbon-laced) pecan pies... or... anything to tempt you.
Sometime, we've gotta be able to flaunt our LT duds (shirts, caps, APRONS) to appreciative audiences! (- But no thongs showing, PLEASE!) ;) Anyway, it's great you're throwing a party, wonderful to be invited, and perhaps even better that so many of us would LIKE to be there - whether we can or no - beyond the faces you'll see.
the picnic party sounds wonderful. But, like Jared B. I am in southern California. I second his idea: Have multiple gatherings!!
Eurydice: Where on the Gulf Coast are you? Christopher's in Alabama--near Mobile? I might go down there some time, for example when Maine is knee-deep in snow.
Sorry I can't make it, but you all have a standing invitation any time you're in the Chicago area!
Tim: In Houston... so not Mobile, but mobile. :)
Looking forward to meeting the lot of you. Will Axel be supervising the grilling of the burgers?
I lived in Mobile from 1973 to 1978 - 5708 Delrose Dr. A nifty split level and my first house!
Axel has a important cleaning function!
Tim, if you're taking suggestions for LT Gatherings, let me just say a few words: Phoenix. January. 75 degrees and sunny.
Anybody else from the Boston area thinking about making the trek?
Actually, if it goes well, we were thinking of doing one in Cambridge, MA--the family estate.
Sweet! Here's to it going well, so you can do it again in this neck of the woods.
Count the New Hampshiresonians in! (at this point, anyway...will let you know closer to time if we can't make it.)
Alice: Great!
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