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Cover page changes
I've revamped each work's "covers" pageâ€"a.k.a. "change cover"â€"to emphasize the higher-quality images among out 1,000,000 covers. 1. The images are bigger, so you can see quality, and because covers are so beautiful.2. The algorithm now sorts larger covers higher, so that members are more... Read more...
Published 13 hours ago
News you can... discuss
Big news todayâ€"Amazon now owns 100% of our rival and bĂŞte noire, Shelfari. With a lot to do today, I don't have time to blog-ify it, but you can read about it on Talk and talk back. We've always relied on members to direct the site. We could use your advice now more than ever!Here's the post... Read more...
Published 2 days ago
August Early Reviewer Bonus Batch
St. Martin's Press is responsible for this month's unprecedented and huge Early Reviewer bonus batch! They're giving out 1,000â€"yes, one thousandâ€"copies of Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland. The book is available to residents of the US and Canada, and the deadline to request a copy is... Read more...
Published a week ago
August Early Reviewer books
The August batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We've got 56 books this month, and a grand total 1,274 copies to give out. First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it's correct.Then request away! The list of... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
LibraryThing Mobile upgrade for iPhone
A number of users have noticed that LibraryThing mobile (http://www.librarything.com/m/) looked weird on iPhones. We made a few changes and it now looks right. We are, of course looking at more consequential upgrades. The main issue right now is the lack of an ability to add items to... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
Series, Awards, Characters, Places
Some time ago we added pages for series. We've now added pages for three other Common Knowledge fields: Awards, Important Places and People/Characters.All four page types, together with the author pages, now also sport extensive cross-linking, so you can get from Stephen King to the Bram Stoker... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago
First and last words
"Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians."Recognize that sentence? It is, of course, from Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. How about?"Now, what I want is, Facts."That's from Dickens, Hard Times.We just introduced new work-based Common Knowledge... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago
A million free covers from LibraryThing
A few days ago, just before hitting thirty million books, we hit one million user-uploaded covers. So, we've decided to give them awayâ€"to libraries, to bookstores, to everyone.The basics. The process, patterned after the Amazon.com cover service, is simplicity itself:Take an ISBN, like... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago
Thirty Million Books!
LibraryThing has hit 30,000,000 books cataloged! We also recently hit 1,000,000 user-uploaded covers and 500,000 pieces of Common Knowledge data.* Tags stand just shy of 39 million.Thirty millionâ€"more specifically 30,011,748â€"was the number of books in the Library of Congress, the largest... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago
Free Web Services API to Common Knowledge
Introducing the LibraryThing Web Services API.The API will eventually do many things.For starters it includes all of the data in LibraryThing's Common Knowledge project, our groundbreaking "fielded wiki" for interesting book information (see original blog post). It includes fields like series,... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago
Abebooks news: The scoop for LibraryThing
Today Abebooks, the Canadian bookseller, announced that it was being acquired by Amazon, a company that needs little introduction. (See Amazon press release.)Abebooks owns a minority stake in LibraryThing. This means that, after regulatory approval and finalization, Amazon will become, through... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago
Twilight Review Contest
In mere hours (at midnight on Friday night), the fourth book in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn will be released. And I'm sure I won't be the only person up reading all weekend, and then waiting to talk about it as soon as I'm finished.We figured it was a good time to have another review... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago
