Comments on: LibraryThing I Love You!

By: Samantha

Samantha — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:32:54 +0000

Is library thing just for librarians? I'm a (confessed) novice and all the blogs i've been reading seem be from librarians. At the moment my own lists are on a little start-up site . Would you recommend LT for the layman?

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:06:42 +0000

That book is both obscure and a paperback. There’s one copy on LibraryThing (caveat: my site), but that’s it. Libraries don’t collect a lot of paperbacks, unfortunately.

By: adam

adam — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:34:03 +0000

Frank,
I just tried a new book using both its ISBN-10 number and ISBN-13 number that I knew was in ISBNdb (978-0750684118) and it worked OK. I think the issue is probably that the book you tried is not on the db. Just over 3 million books was enough such that when I tried some of my fairly niche interests (model engineering) I was pleasantly surprised to get hits but clearly you were not so lucky.

By: Frank Carver

Frank Carver — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:10:49 +0000

Do you know anything about how compatible these services might be with the new longer-format ISBNs? The first book I happened to pick up ( 9781425959401 ) was not recognized by ISBNdb, for example.

By: JohnR

JohnR — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:07:29 +0000

But did you know you can put LibraryThing into your blog sidebar?
(if you’re using for work that is )