Good morning, all.
I doubt that anyone will follow it up but I did include the following in a recent Library Lines column in the local newspaper .....
Last week as part of THAT course I ......and discovered LibraryThing ...
LibraryThing (http://www.librarything.com/) is ideal for people who love reading books AND love doing things on their computer. I would describe it as a cross between a huge library catalogue (contains over 25 million books) and a humungous book club. LibrayThing is an online sevice to help people catalogue their books easily and because everyone catalogues together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth. There are a large number of groups you can join, and at 'Talk' contribute to various conversations on book-related themes. Not surprisingly the largest group numerically is "Librarians who Library Thing" and my favourite topic in their Group Talks is "Funny Requests from Patrons" - it's a scream!
Click on any title and you will find ecommendations of similar books, member reviews and current related conversation topics.
LibraryThing uses the profile of the books you have entered to suggest books you might like to read (and even ones you wouldn't!). Once you have entered your books you can search them, sort them and add subject 'tags' or labels, also rate them, e.g. 4 stars, and write reviews.
Why not explore LibraryThing for yourself ..."
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