Tuesday Thingers Recommendations

Today’s topic: Recommendations. Do you use LT’s recommendations feature? Have you found any good books by using it? Do you use the anti-recommendations, or the “special sauce” recommendations? How do you find out about books you want to read? LibraryThing Recommendations are a wonderful thing and that was one of the first features I played [...]

Tuesday Thingers Vacation Time

Since we’re past the Fourth of July and the summer season has officially started, what are your plans for the summer? Vacations, trips? Trips that involve reading? Reading plans? If you’re going somewhere, do you do any reading to prepare? Do you read local literature as part of your trip? Have you thought about using [...]

Tuesday Thingers Popularity Contest

Here is the Top 100 Most Popular Books on LibraryThing. Bold what you own, italicize what you’ve read. Star what you liked. Star multiple times what you loved! I don’t typically do well in popularity contests, but here goes. 1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (32,484) 2. Harry Potter and the [...]

Tuesday Thingers Uniquely Mine

Last week I asked what was the most popular book in your library- this week I’m going to ask about the most unpopular books you own. Do you have any unique books in your library- books only you have on LT? How many? Did you find cataloging information on your unique books, or did you [...]

Tuesday Thingers All About Tagging

Today’s question is about tags- do you tag? How do you tag? How do you feel about tagging- do you think it would be better to have standardized tags, like libraries have standardized subject headings, or do you like the individualized nature of tagging? What are your top 5 tags and what do they say [...]

Tuesday Thingers 6/3

Today’s Tuesday Thingers question is: Why LT? Why did you choose to open and maintain an LT account? Do you/did you use other online cataloging/social networking sites, like GoodReads or Shelfari? Do you use more than one? Are they different or do they serve different purposes? I looked into LibraryThing after a friend’s daughter told [...]

Tuesday Thingers

Brought to us by The Boston Bibliophile: So the question this week is- how many books do you have cataloged in your LibraryThing account? How do you decide what to include- everything you have, everything you’ve read- and are there things you leave off? I have 353 books cataloged on my LibraryThing account.  I have [...]

LibraryThing Profile Change

Hi all! I just wanted to let everyone know that I’ve updated my LibraryThing username from Speedhaven to LiterateHousewife so that everyone will know who I am. I just wasn’t thinking when I created my LibraryThing profile.

Top 106 Unread Books on LibraryThing

Devourer of Books posted this meme earlier today and it was so inspiring to me. We might even come up with a way to make it a friendly, book blogging competition. We both are fans of LibraryThing and this the list of what at least was once the listing of the top 106 unread books [...]