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Booklore

When I joined LibraryThing, back in 2005, I was somewhat chuffed to see that I was in the top 50 of members who had the biggest library. Now that LibraryThing has over 368,000 members, it comes as no surprise that my ranking has fallen to 875 (currently). What I do find staggering is that the leader of the pack currently has 43,680 books in his library. I find it difficult enough to find time to read all of my 2,350 books as it is…
 
LibraryThing continues to go from strength to strength. It’s just introduced LibraryThing Local, which gives book-related information about the neighbourhood. In less than a week since it’s been introduced, members have added nearly 6,000 venues.

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4 responses to “Booklore”

  1. Cicero Avatar
    Cicero

    Wow, almost 44,000 books! Perhaps the person has read all of them. I wonder if they are as we speak cataloging them?
    What id tthe bulk of your own reading, are there any series of books you have yourself? What is the genre of most of the books you’ve collected?
    I’ve taken a look at the site you mentioned, thanks for the info btw. I may start to catalogue some of my own on the site – I think the site also allows for one to search for books they might be after.
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  2. Geoff Avatar
    Geoff

    Cicero, you ask what is the genre of most of the books that I’ve collected… One view of this can easily be seen from my Tag Cloud. As for series, then perhaps an inkling of this is given by my Author Tag Cloud. Of course, what these Tag Clouds miss is any sense of how my collection has developed over the years. For that, you would have to look at my acquisitions in date order, which, unfortunately, LibraryThing has not catered for until recently, and I haven’t had time to go back and retrospectively add in this data. 

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  3. Gelert Avatar
    Gelert

    Glad to see Glen Baxter in there Geoff – always a good sign.

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  4. Geoff Avatar
    Geoff

    Ah, yes, his surreal humour. Example, the two grizzled cowboys on horseback, the caption being: "’To me, the window is still a symbolically loaded motif’, drawled Cody".

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