Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Ten million books and contest extravaganza

In honor of hitting the big 10 million book mark this week, we're having a book pile contest bonanza. We're combining three contests into one here—Valentine's Day, President's Day, and of course, ten million books.

The challenge. Start taking pictures. Your book piles can be love themed, president themed, or just the coolest damn book photo you can create.

The prizes. We'll pick five winners, who will each receive a year's membership to LibraryThing. The grand prize winner will receive a $100 gift certificate. The catch? That hundred dollars must be spent entirely on one book. So start looking around Abe's Rare Book Room...* (Amazon is fine too.)

The rules. Post your photos to Flickr, as usual. Tag them "LibraryThing10mil".**

The deadline. The contest ends on February 16th, at midnight, EST. We'll announce all the winners on Monday, February 19th.

*This is harder than you might think. A signed and first edition copy of The Little Prince sold for $10,450 last year, and that was only the 7th most expensive book sold in 2006 on Abe. Sadly, we will not be buying you this $55,471 copy of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. So if you had the $100, what one book would you try to get?
**Users who already posted Valentine's or Presidents photos to Flickr after I said this, can you change and/or add the tag LibraryThing10mil? Sorry and thanks.

18 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"So if you had the $100, what one book would you try to get?"

I think I'd get William Sims Bainbridge's Satan's Power: A Deviant Psychotherapy Cult ... I've been wanting to score a copy of that for ages and right now there's a "like new" copy Amazon's new/used vendors page for $89.97 (plus $3.49 shipping), which would mean I'd just be $6.54 shy of the $100.00 total!

2/07/2007 2:24 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd probably pick up the recent new edition of St. Isidore of Seville's Etymologies. It costs more than $100, but the prize would bring it within my budget.

2/07/2007 12:17 PM  
Blogger Tim said...

Oooh. That I'd do. Did you know I run www.isidore-of-seville.com?

2/07/2007 2:42 PM  
Blogger Tim said...

No, they can be anyone's books. Well, not mine. You can't go and stack mine.

2/07/2007 6:56 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, this is exciting. I need to borrow a digital camera!!

When are you going to announce who entered the 10 Millionth book??? I've been biting my nails for days, I entered books on Saturday.

2/07/2007 8:27 PM  
Blogger Tim said...

Heh. Sorry. Abby and I have been hot-potato-ing it. She ended up with it, but had to give a talk tonight at Simmons. Tomorrow she'll be on a train, but we'll have it up by tomorrow night.

2/07/2007 11:13 PM  
Blogger Robert J. said...

Hey, what about Darwin's birthday!

2/09/2007 1:44 PM  
Blogger Tim said...

And Kant's death--a two-fer!

2/09/2007 4:54 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Darn it!

I just spent two hundred dollars on TWO books.

One was $110 - Choosing the Right Stuff: The Psychological Selection of Astronauts and Cosmonauts by Santy.

The other was $80 *used* - Space Psychology and Psychiatry by Kanas

2/11/2007 1:18 PM  
Blogger Tim said...

RE: _Right Stuff: The Psychological Selection of Astronauts and Cosmonauts_ and _Space Psychology and Psychiatry_

Very topical books.

2/11/2007 5:14 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I took a picture of my presidential bookpile, but I don't know if my flickr account is going to be 'validated' so my picture can be seen via tags in time for the contest. Is it okay to also post the URL here?

2/11/2007 7:21 PM  
Blogger Tim said...

Sure thing.

But I think it will be validated in time.

2/11/2007 7:26 PM  
Blogger Tim said...

Ha. I love it! Yours, or from a library?

2/11/2007 11:27 PM  
Blogger sravana said...

Same issue... my account may not be validated in time. Here's the direct link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73677543@N00/

2/14/2007 4:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Me too, Been anxiously watching for 5 days, still not approved. Thanks for looking here!
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=91126520@N00&q=librarything10mil&m=text

2/14/2007 8:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm having the same validation problem as others. I was going to email Flickr, but there's an eleven day line.

Here's the link to my entries:

http://flickr.com/photos/64471624@N00/tags/librarything10mil/

Thanks, guys!

2/14/2007 9:55 PM  
Blogger Deb Morrissey said...

Ooh. I would put the money toward this. I haven't been able to justify it for myself, much as I love Bujold.

2/16/2007 10:23 PM  
Blogger Deb Morrissey said...

Mine's definitely not going to be validated in time.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10656610@N00/392561778/

2/16/2007 10:29 PM  

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