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Wall Street Journal on LibraryThing

There’s an article out today in the WSJ covering LibraryThing [although this link may expire in 30 days time].
It’s a puff piece, but a pretty detailed one which will no doubt bring LT to the broader attention of readers, and probably the publishers who really should be looking at this as a great idea for […]

Published: June 27, 2006. Read more →

Librarything

Sigh. AbeBooks has bought a 40% stake in Librarything. Press Release.
Why the sigh? Well, really, because I wanted it.
Librarything (LT) is a website that allows visitors to catalogue their book collections, ‘tag’ books in their collection, and then see how their collection relates to others’ with the same books and tags. As such it […]

Published: May 30, 2006. Read more →

April Emit

Penguin is at it again. Working with Chris Ware on a new edition of Candide as well as a number of other graphic artists.

Phil Frost resurfaces, at long last. Looks like he’s still into the same kind of thing, but now in a gallery rather than on the streets. It’s a rightening long time since […]

Published: May 4, 2006. Read more →

Clump of libraries

There’s a lot of book categorising sites coming out. As well as LibraryThing, we have Delicious Monster (although it’s Mac only and resolutely app-based); ReaderSquared (which doesn’t work for me) and an overview of the whole lot at Powells. There is also Bokhyllan.com which I’ll need to ask Lennart about.

Published: February 5, 2006. Read more →

Rhys reading