Monday, December 17, 2007

¿Qué hay en tu estantería? (Spanish books)

Cataloging your Spanish-language books just got a lot easier. We already have user-translated Spanish language site, www.LibraryThing.es, our fourth-most popular site. But we didn't have good Spanish sources.

So today I've added 20 Spanish sources, including a bookstore and nineteen libraries.

The bookstore, deastore.com, is an excellent source for recent books, popular paperbacks and cover images, mostly from Spain. Deastore is critical insofar as Amazon, our most-used source, has no Spanish or Latin American site, and few Spanish books. The libraries provide depth, including older books and--although all but one are from Spain itself--books from elsewhere in the Spanish-speaking world.

You can add sources to your options here. Here's the complete list:
  • deastore.com
  • Biblioteca Central de La Rioja
  • Biblioteca de Castilla y Leon
  • Biblioteca Foral de Bizkaia
  • Biblioteca Pública de Avila
  • Biblioteca Pública de Burgos
  • Biblioteca Pública de Palencia
  • Biblioteca Pública de Salamanca
  • Biblioteca Pública de Segovia
  • Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
  • Congreso de los Diputados
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Universidad de Alcalá de Henares
  • Universidad de Alicante
  • Universidad de Burgos
  • Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Universidad Pública de Navarra
Did you make it this far? The first 25 people to write to tim@librarything.com from a Spanish-language email address (.es, .mx, .ar, etc) will get a free membership. (If you don't have one, write to us in Spanish.) And for the next few days, if you run a Spanish-language blog, we'll send you five memberships—to blog or just to give to friends.

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9 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks a lot. This is really helpful!!!!

How about adding some French (and Chinese) sources...

12/17/2007 10:05 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Muy buenas noticias. ¡Great news!

12/17/2007 5:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is very handy, thanks Tim.

12/18/2007 5:19 AM  
Blogger Nell said...

Excelente noticia, ¡gracias!

12/18/2007 8:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi nell
amg lite

12/23/2007 11:47 PM  
Blogger Nell said...

I wrote last week but haven't received an answer :( maybe it's because I wrote in English...

12/26/2007 11:35 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Que Paso?
Donde Esta?
Vacaccion?

muchos dias passado.....

did I get that right?

12/28/2007 7:31 PM  
Blogger Nell said...

Almost :) (vacación / han pasado)

I received the memberships for my blog readers, thank you Tim and Librarything!

12/28/2007 7:34 PM  
Blogger andrea b said...

hola! mandé un correo en castellano el 20 de diciembre y me contestó Tim el mismo día, pidiéndome mi username. volví a responder en inglés, pero no supe nada más... Mejor intento por acá...
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hi! I emailed in Spanish on 12/20 and Tim wrote back the same day (said that he more or less understood what I wrote), and asked for my username. I wrote back and haven't heard anything since. I thought it might work if I tried here... Thanks a lot..

andrea (username: brigneti)

1/03/2008 8:57 AM  

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