LibraryThing at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Well, the rest of us didn't get a trip to Germany, but Giovanni lucked out—he's already there. So he gets to represent LibraryThing at the Frankfurt Book Fair.*Look for him around the AbeBooks booth, and running a discussion: "LibraryThing.de: Meine Bibliothek im Internet." That's happening in the "Forum Innovation Hall 4.2 P421" from 10:45 to 11:15 on Wednesday the 10th (which is today, if you're in Germany).
*The world's largest book fair. Tim went last year. Jealous? Me?
Labels: book fairs, Frankfurt, Giovanni
posted by Abby at 11:12 PM
5 Comments:
I went last year but I couldn't find LibraryThing...
What a pity, this post was a bit late... I was at the Frankfurt bookfair yesterday and I had checked in the forums and blogs whether anything librarything-related was planned in Frankfurt, but nothing. Then I even asked at the information desk at the fair whether librarything was listed with an event or a stand, but nothing...
Don't you want people to find you?
Hi Charmian, I am really sorry for that.
The event was planned late, very late, and it was only on the online catalog. The printed catalog was still announcing a different event...
...but the information desk should have known though. Anyway, that was also my fault, I could have announced it earlier. Sorry again.
On the side, the presentation was a nightmare... there was no internet connection and the audio worked on and off... I had to rely on the few screenshots I had with me and I couldn't show LibraryThing live... at a certain point the bookfair laptop crashed...
I gather there wasn't wifi either. I know conventions make a few bucks off that, but it's becoming increasingly maddening to go to conferences and be unable to use the web. Often it defeats the whole purpose, which has something to do with connecting people. In regular life free wifi is increasingly commonplace. Get 10,000 people together to exchange ideas, and everything snaps back to 1995.
Hi Giovanni,
well, never mind - it would have been great to meet you, the "European face" of librarything :-))
I really really like librarything and I'd like to contribute if I can - at the moment I'm not sure yet how... But I get the impression that there is still a lot to be done especially in Europe.
Your account of the presentation sounds truely nightmarish - I'm sorry. Maybe we could have had personal testimonials instead - like people getting up and telling everybody how their life's been changed since they found librarything...:-) Could have been fun...
Anyway - hope to stay/ get in contact with you somehow
charmian
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