I had had a bit of a play with LibraryThing before, but never bothered to add books. But I've added some now - just a few and those which are within my view from where I am sitting at the computer - Jill Dupleix's excellent cookery books, and Henning Mankell, since I have read all of the Kurt Wallander books. You're welcome to have a look...
I also had a look at Lili's book list.
The other great things on LibraryThing are the BookSuggester and, even better since it is such a quirky idea, the UnSuggester! UnSuggester takes "people who like this also like that" and turns it on its head. It analyzes the sixteen million books LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and comes back with books least likely to share a library with the book you suggest.
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Library thing has never really interested me. The thought of cataloguing a "home library" is the last thing I want to do (I like my collection "fashionably messy"), but looking at your blog I have just thought of a new use for it wihtin our readers advisory project at work.
Lynette (assuming it's you!):
There's certainly no reason why you can't use LibraryThing's Suggester as the engine for an online Readers Advising thing. We've been playing with this concept for a while and were thinking it would make for a great Statewide Project, along with some PD. Do you want to have a chat with Paula and I about it?
PS I agree. I'm hardly going to catalogue all of my books, and could only be bothered to do some which were in my direct line of vision at the time I was posting. But thank goodness lots of people do, because it's all that data which drives the Suggester (and UnSuggester)...
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