Seven million books
With spooky synchronicity we hit three major milestones today:- Seven million books cataloged
- 100,000 registered members
- 1,000 groups
The other two milestones are also big. The 100,000 members is, of course, a little inflated, including members who signed up and didn't do much of anything. It even has a few sign-up do-overs and test accounts. Still the number has been creeping up, so it's worth noticing a milestone. We've been running around 10% non-English sign-ups, to LibraryThing.de, LibraryThing.fr and the like.
1,000 groups is also impressive. Groups were only introduced in July. Use has increased of late. The 1,000th group is Ringers of Handbells, "A group for anyone who enjoys the art of English Handbell Ringing." At present group has just one member, and is private. And that's all I know!
posted by Tim at 11:35 PM
17 Comments:
Congratulations team on reaching all three milestones at the same time :-D
Congratulations ! I just visited again, looking to add a few new more books, and very pleasantly surprised to see how LibraryThing has grown! I still remember when you were still on your own.
It looks really great now. Keep it up, and I'm again very happy for you.
Congratulations! I sure have enjoyed The Library Thing. I'm always looking around for new ideals on book reads. Keep up the great work!
All: Thanks; Kathy: Cool. I can never get a handle on what and how many users want that. In any case, we have two new such features coming up shortly--today if I can get my mind in shape for it. More coffee.
Congratulations!
Do you have an indication of how active the groups are? All mine have been very quiet for a while. I even tried to launch a "book of the month" contest to generate reviews in the Deep South group, but it seems to have died for lack of interest.
P.S. Fannie Flagg uses two gs in her surname.
Gelukwensen!
LibraryThing loopt als een trein. Houden zo, en blijven verbeteren.
Dystopos. I think it varies enormously. We're running about 400 comments/day now. Divide by 1000 and you see that the average is less than 1. And you can see that certain groups are hopping.
I'm a little on the fence about groups vs. forums. I do see problems, amid some good activity.
Too COOl I used o play English Handbells, imagine running into a group here!
THE GROUPS ARE FAB! Thanks for making LibraryThing GREAT!
I don't know, and LibraryThing doesn't have a large "collector" community yet. But keep in mind that very few books are worth anything. Books have to be very old, very special or very rare to stand a chance. Anyway, wouldn't it have to be late 19c.?
I don't know—is it? I did it because we're going to be unrolling something major—a page with recommendations, and I want Amazon in the mix, both becasue they're sometimes good and because, well, they show that LibraryThing's are rather good too.
Oh yes Tim, I do like this new Book Suggester page. It keeps going, and going and going. Thank you very much.
Kathryn (kathrynnd)
Whoops. You're not supposed to have seen that yet!
:)
Dammit, the ups and downs of Bangladeshi butter are our Special Sauce algorithm!
Would you please put links to WorldCat.org on your book-social info pages (to improve the visibility of worldcat and libraries on the web, and also to allow users to search for those particular books at their local libraries)?
It's already there, on both the social and the book page. See "find in a library".
Hit a nerve there. OCLC's FIL has been up since the start, so may I request you ask questions of OCLC in return? For example, why do they not allow access to their raw data? And, while you're at it, why did they block thingISBN's "compare" function, which allows librarians to compare and contrast LibraryThing and OCLC's approach to FRBRization? I'll leave it at that.
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