Holiday book pile contest winners
Now that the holiday season is behind us, voila, the winners of LibraryThing's holiday bookpile contest. First prize winner, Teampoush, gets a LibraryThing t-shirt for the subtly cool "Joy to the world" photo (look at closely at the books in the background if you don't see it at first).
The two runners up are melannen with the impressive "New Year's Day Bookpile" (what a way to start the year!) and SanityDemolisher with "Sleigh of Books"). Each will get a gift membership.
See all of the submissions here and here.
SantaThing report. I think SantaThing, while a little rushed, was a success! Almost 300 people picked out books for strangers, and had fun doing it. Next year, we'll certainly make some changes*, but it was a good start. My sincere apologies to anyone whose books came after Christmas—we tried our hardest to get them in time, but it didn't happen in every case. If you want to see what everyone else picked for their various Santa-ees, or if your Santa left you a personal message (most messages were transferred onto the Amazon order slip, but long ones didn't fit in), go check it out!
UPDATE: we fixed the SantaThing page so you can peek at the suggestions on your own page.
http://www.librarything.com/santathing.php
The ordering process was actually kind of fun—I started to see themes of popular books. How many people got a copy of The Prestige by Christopher Priest? (Enough that I decided I should probably buy a copy for myself, if that many LibraryThingers recommended it).
*I think we'll start the whole process earlier to give everyone more time to pick out books, etc. We also need figure out the shipping and billing logistics better! We ended up stuck with Amazon billing us separately each time we changed the shipping address (300 times) which hit our bank account's daily limit on the number of transactions. Who knew? Well after Tim and I ended up using up our personal credit cards and spending over a week clicking on Amazon links, we decided - next year, yup, we'll do it differently :)
Labels: book pile, contest, santathing
posted by Abby at 2:33 PM
7 Comments:
Thank you for hosting SantaThing. It was a lot of fun. As you ponder changes for next year, can I make a couple of suggestions?
1) It would be cool if our SantaThing recipients had something in common with us. My gift recipient and I had absolutely NOTHING in common and it was torturous trying to find something for him. We were polar opposites in our reading tastes. Yes, one could argue that it's a chance to explore new things, etc. - but it's Christmas, I don't need the added stress. =)
2) Explain the currency exchange rate at the beginning and prominently - or let people in the U.S. only buy for people in the U.S., those in the U.K. only buy for those in the U.K.
3) Send either the sender or the recipient the tracking info so we know when to expect our loot
But for a last-minute project, it went off fabulously. Thanks again!
Jill (aka mrstreme)
will Santathing be done for Christmas 2008? Is it only for people with a US address? What about people who live outside the US but still have an address in the US to which things may be sent? Can we use a US address and participate?
those book piles are great! Good job everyone! :D
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Not living in the US or the UK we should not be left out (we already are as far as early reviewing is concerned). And no - I don´t think those in the US should santa only those in the US, and the same with the UK. With online bookshops (not to say Amazon :-) being international it should be only a matter of logistics, shouldn´t it?
I liked the Santa idea - and yes, I felt left out.And yes, I would love to santa someone in the US, e.g.
My two cents.
That is one of the most beautiful Christmas tree photos I have ever seen, evocative, airy, fragrant, gentle and mysterious -- not to mention the subtlety of the greeting!
I still don't have my second book, and the SantaThing page doesn't look any different.
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