Librarything Puns

As the post title suggests, I have been using LibraryThing for a few months to track my manga collection and I'm really enjoying it. Not only is it easy to search and add books into your collection, but I also find that it provides a very aesthetic way of sharing your collection with others. Overall I find the website platform the best experience, but they do provide iOS and Android apps as well.

I just reached 364 books with the big 500 in my gaze...check it out!

Biggest issues so far:

• Book series titling and numbering require a manual touch for proper sorting. Subtleties like appending a "0" to single-digit volumes (ie, One Punch Man, Vol. 01) and slight naming consistency checks will be part of life after adding a title
• Book cover art can sometimes have issues when adding to the library. Easily repaired; just simply go to the book detail page and click to "Change Cover". 90% of the time you'll find a suggested cover that works, but they let you specify a URL path to an image file if needed.
• Not a problem and more of a tip - for OOP titles, searching by ISBN will save you some time when adding to your library if you are searching via Amazon

There are obvious shortcomings, but it is nice to find an out-of-box solution. What do others think?

I did a search and didn't see any info. What do you use to track your personal library?

I've used goodreads for years to keep track of my books. There's some I haven't tracked because sometimes I forgot especially when I first started reading ebooks instead of paper books. I have well over 400 books on Goodreads, and I'm just wondering if there's an easy way to transfer them all to library thing? Or will I have to transfer each one individually? (I assume that's the way ill have to do it but it doesn't hurt to ask!)

By now LibraryThing has a fairly good handle on my taste. Whenever I get a book recommendation I double-check it with the "Will you like it?" function. Recently I checked a book ("The Star Kings" - Edmond Hamilton) and got a rating I'd never seen before, " LibraryThing thinks you will love The Star Kings (prediction confidence: high) "

I wondered if there was a way to just cut to the chase and ask LibraryThing for a list of books I will love with a prediction confidence: high.

This as opposed to individually typing in every title in the Library of Congress.

Your help will be appreciated.

I volunteer at the library of our local horticulture centre and college. We have a small (~2800 item) collection that's currently in Readerware. We have a very small budget but we'd like to migrate to a system that has an OPAC...that's really all we need besides a cataloguing module, so no need for a full-featured ILS.

We've looked at quite a few systems, most of which are way too expensive, and have narrowed it down to Libib and LibraryThing/TinyCat. Does anyone have any comments on or experience with either of those two products? Recommendations? Suggestions for other options?

Thanks for your help with this!

I’m the director of a small house museum with a tiny collection of objects but over 600 books. The previous collections “system” had all the books cataloged in pastperfect with accession numbers (but none were ever officially accessioned... a story for another time.) There was no uniform method in place for data entry so it’s all Willy-nilly and I cannot crack the code.

It was recently suggested to me that we start from scratch and enter all of our books into LibraryThing. I agree that pastperfect doesn’t really suit our needs and it’s a bit pricey just for book entries. The other things previously stored in PP can easily be kept in excel spreadsheets. This is also a good opportunity for thorough inventory and weeding.

But now I need to figure out how to sort, categorize and assign call numbers in LibraryThing. I’m still brand new to it, anyone have ideas? Do I just keep the info in “tag” fields? Are there any other small museums using this database? Is there a user friendly method or better program that would work for us?
Any help is much appreciated!

Please click here for ranking

This was done by using the number of LibraryThing "Members" figure from each author's profile page (I believe this is the number of members who have added books by each writer to their shelves). The authors selection is my own, if your favorite authors are not included you can look up their profile page and compare. It does not of course mean who is better than who, just the ranking in numbers only. I hope it is of some interest :)

Ich habe vor einigen Tagen diese Internetseite für mich entdeckt und dort kann man die Bücher, die man bereits besitzt, zu seiner Bibliothek hinzufügen und auch bewerten. Anhand dieser Bücher erhält man umfangreiche Listen von weiteren Büchern, die interessant für einen sein könnten. Hier mal ein Beispiel anhand meiner Bibliothek: https://www.librarything.de/catalog/gzuf

Umfangreiche Seite, ideal für alle Literaturinteressierten.

We thought we'd introduce some user flair in printSF.

It might be nice to see what other redditors are reading at the moment, what's on their to-read lists, what they have read in the past, how they've rated them and to have this information at the click of a button.

So now you can add a link to your Goodreads or Librarything page next to your username by following the instructions below.

REQUESTING USER FLAIR

• Copy your Goodreads, Librarything or Shelfari profile page URL and paste it into a message to BigFriendlyRobot. Don't edit the subject line and click 'Send'.

• Within a few minutes your flair should appear in the subreddit, if not please send me a PM and I'll see what I can do (you can test your user flair by replying to this post)

• If you use another book cataloguing site and want to share this information please PM me and I'll add the flair manually.

Many thanks to ExtremePopcorn for setting up BigFriendlyRobot to automate this process.

ENABLING CLICKABLE LINKS

When you first request your flair the URL's appearing next to your username are text only; you can make these clickable links if you are using Firefox or Chrome by following these instructions:

Firefox users:

1. Install GreaseMonkey.
2. Restart Firefox.
3. Install Link Reddit Flair script.

Chrome users:

1. Install Link Reddit Flair script.

Many thanks to ictinus for creating this script, I know it will also be very useful to other communities within reddit.

PRIVACY AND PERSONAL INFORMATION

Goodreads and Librarything may very well store personal information and email addresses that you don't want to be made available to the occasional troll or anyone else you may meet on reddit.

The privacy settings on these websites are quite flexible, here are some instructions how to make your information more secure (thought it might save you a few minutes):

• Goodreads privacy settings
• Librarything privacy settings

http://www.librarything.com/groups/reddit

LT lists this group as dormant since 2012 and the admin (/u/philll) has posted a statement saying he's ready to hand the reins to anyone who asks, so I'm wondering if anyone here: a) would like to take over and reinvigorate the Reddit LT group, and b) would have an interest in joining, even if only to see what changes result in the following list of most-held books:

1. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (36)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (34)
3. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (32)
4. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (31)
5. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (30)
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell (30)
7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (28)
8. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien (27)
9. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (25)
10. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (24)
11. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (24)
12. Dune by Frank Herbert (23)
13. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (USA) by J. K. Rowling (22)
14. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (22)
15. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (21)
16. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (21)
17. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (21)
18. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett (21)
19. The Stranger by Albert Camus (20)
20. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (20)
21. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (20)
22. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (19)
23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (19)
24. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (19)
25. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (19)

FWIW, I only own 7 of the group's top 25 volumes, significantly all appearing in the top 10. How many do you own? Add 50 new Redditors to this list and watch the rankings spin!

I have a special case where my company is publishing a title through Smashwords, but not on Amazon. Through Smashwords, the ebook will distribute to Kobo, Barnes and Noble and Apple store.

Will this ebook title show up on goodreads or Librarything? I know Amazon owns goodreads; does that mean that Goodreads won't have a page for the ebook until Amazon has it in their catalog? What about Librarything?

Someone in another sub asked for suggestions for ways to catalog their books. Thought I'd share my response here:

Give LibraryThing a look. I used to keep a catalog of my books in a custom Filemaker Pro database I created, but I switched to LibraryThing a little over a year ago. Some reasons, in no particular order, of why I like and recommend LibraryThing.

• Saves time entering info on my books. Most books published since 1970 have an ISBN. Give LibraryThing the ISBN, and it will fill in all of the info about the book: author, title, publisher, illustrators, etc. Older books may not have an ISBN, but they will likely have an LCCN (Library of Congress Control Number), and LibraryThing can fill in book info using that number as well. The LCCN and ISBN are usually found on the page just after the title page in a book. The ISBN is usually also printed on the back cover or spine of books published since 1970.

• LibraryThing allows you to create different "collections", and books can belong to multiple collections. I have a collection for books that I own. I also have one for books I've read, and books in that collection may also be in the books I own collection. I have a collection for books I've discovered and might want to purchase some day, and another for books I want to keep an eye out for when I visit used book stores or thrift shops. When I purchase books of the discovered or used book store collections, I can move them to my "books owned" collection.

• LibraryThing lets me access my catalog on my phone or tablet while I'm out and about. Handy when I'm at a bookstore and want to see if I already own a book, or to check my list of books that I'm looking for.

• Book cover galleries. Library Thing lets you display your collections as a cover gallery. It's kind of like a virtual bookshelf that you can skim. When you enter a book, if LibraryThing has a cover on file they'll assign it to your book. Many books go through multiple editions with different covers, and LibraryThing usually has them all. Members can submit covers for books or editions that LibraryThing doesn't already have covers for, and there are usually many good user supplied covers for a book.

• Excellent support. The LibraryThing staff is always friendly and responsive. The forums have a great community of LibraryThin

I've been looking to find an online book cataloguing site where I can post my library along with ratings for each book, with the purpose of finding new books and recommendations from users with similar or identical tastes.

A similar post was submitted here about a year ago but I've seen news recently (mainly in r/books) that both Librarything and Goodreads have both been adding new features, also a lot can change in a year.

Which book networking sitesite would you recommend why?

Hey all! I bought the entire Reawakened Trilogy by Colleen Houck and really didn't like the first book, so I'm giving the entire trilogy away for free on Librarything.com Just wanted to give everyone here a chance to enter as well (:

I'm fairly upset at the quality of Goodread's suggestion system, and I'm not too keen on LibraryThing's 200 book limit.

I'm looking for a site that I can enter in the books that I read, rate them, and then get suggestions based on both what I like and how much I liked (or didn't like) said books.

Any suggestions?

Hey r/books,

I use Goodreads pretty religiously for my book cataloguing/library upkeep and I haven't looked into the other book services sites just because it would take up so much time to transition my stuff over but I'm curious as to what the differences are. Does anyone have a preference for a particular book service site? What do they offer that's better than the others?

http://bookriot.com/2012/08/07/goodreads-v-librarything-part-two/ - Part Two

Personally, I think LibraryThing is easier to integrate into a library, but GoodReads' superior interface makes it more attractive. If you had to pick just one, which would you pick?

I think LibraryThing.com is a fun way to keep track of what you've read. You can also read reviews and see what others with similar tastes are reading. I don't remember seeing anything about this site on Reddit, though, so I'm wondering if r/books is its enemy for some reason.

(so it's a promo, because I'm hoping for some tasty r/Fantasy love/hate/indifference)

I'm just about to self-publish my contemporary fantasy collection, and I'm at that stage where I tell everyone on the planet about it. You qualify.

Book info: http://www.reganwolfrom.com/catholic-guilt-and-the-joy-of-hating-men/

Goodreads Giveaway: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/36595-catholic-guilt-and-the-joy-of-hating-men

LibraryThing Giveaway: http://www.librarything.com/er/giveaway/list#13189459

Mailing List Giveaway: http://www.reganwolfrom.com/list

An Unrelated Platypus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaNbDYGmGwc

Librarything or goodreads?