LibraryThing is a website which allows you to virtually catalog your own personal book collection, creating on on-line database about your collection to which you can add various information (or metadata, as the really scary librarians call it) and share with other users throughout the world. The data you create in LibraryThing regarding your collection can be channeled into various on-line uses, similar to the wonderful XML-driven RSS feeds found on most blogs (for more info on RSS, please see my previous entry). One example of what LibraryThing can do is shown here on the right hand of my blog, where a random selection of 20 books from my collection are shown, with a different random set appearing each time someone comes to my blog page or refreshes the page. It’s a cool way to show off, er, to share your reading interests with other people. LibraryThing will also show you other users whose collections are similar to your own, and allow you to communicate with those users, either through email or in on-line forums.
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