Compare your library with others'

I've added a new "Compare: Connections" feature, similar to the Legacy Library feature. But instead of munging statistics about Jefferson and Yeats, the new feature works on your friends, interesting libraries and other connections lists.

Members: find yours here.
Others: here are mine.

As with the Legacy Libraries page, you get a couple options. First, you choose which list you want to look at—friends and so forth. Then try:

• Shared books, books. Shows the most popular books you also share.
  
• Shared books, people. Shows all the connections, with how much they share.
  
• Top books. Shows the most popular books, whether or not you share them. It's a "Most Popular Books" for your friends and other connections.
  

I'm anticipating some time-outs on larger libraries. The calculations here are brutal—100MB of RAM is not atypical. I'll mitigate them tomorrow.

A feature for LibraryThing Authors. I've also added a small, but cute feature for LibraryThing Authors. In certain circumstances, LibraryThing Authors now get a "Your Readers" list, alongside their friends and so forth. Right now, these lists are appearing on all author and work pages—again, only if you are a LibraryThing author. They aren't showing up in the "Compare" feature because many authors have hundreds or thousands of readers, and the system can't handle all that calculation right now.

Talk about both features on this blog or here.