Talk:LibraryThing

message: I did search "LibraryThing" and got no hits, so I mistakenly believed there was no entry yet. I'm happy to see the two merged.
: Eh, I think this should be merged into the other... though there isn't much to merge here. The name of the site is LibraryThing, not LibraryThing.com. Slashdot's article is not Slashdot.org, it's Slashdot. Sykil 13:01, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that LibraryThing.com should be merged into LibraryThing. -timrem 20:28, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Greetings! This used to be talk:LibraryThing.com, but now it has been moved to talk:LibraryThing, as was suggested above. --LA2 01:32, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: merging

message: Re the (current) last sentence of the article – "Since the introduction of the forum section of the site, called "Talk," the previously very active LibraryThing Google Group has become deprecated" – I don't know anything about this subject so I can't be sure that 'deprecated' is the wrong word to use here, but it doesn't sound right to me.Russ London 10:14, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In the process of adding outside references to justify the article's existence, I fixed the language regarding the google groups a little. Argyriou (talk) 00:54, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blogs/forum paragraph 

message: Is the link dead http://groups.google.com/group/Librarything ? Doesn't google groups archive its groups? -- 172.181.250.238 18:07, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That group no longer exists. Issues are discussed on the groups pages and blogs at LT.  --zenohockey 02:22, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Group 

message: Does LibraryThing disclose figures about paying users ? If yes, it might be interesting to mention it. GL 12:01, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My rough calculation says at least five thousand or so must be paid users, as they have over 200 books :-) (taking the distribution of the top 500 and extrapolating backwards). I don't think any figures have been named, but you could always ask. Shimgray | talk | 01:01, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Registered users ? 

message: Obviously, I'm not going to get into changing substantive stuff here, but I thought I'd put my thoughts out there, in case someone wants to comment on them, or act on them.
*To the above question, no, we don't disclose paying members. We disclose pretty much everything else, but not that. We statistically sample Shelfari, Goodreads, Anobii and so forth to figure out how they're growing. Someone could do that to us, if they cared.
*Abe invested in May 2006, not June. See Abe's press release (http://www.abebooks.com/docs/CompanyInformation/PressRoom/library-thing.shtml). Citing a blurb from the Boston Globe is odd. Serious articles have been written on LibraryThing in newspapers and trade periodicals. That was a few column inches on a "what's happening" insert. (For press mentions, see http://www.librarything.com/press/)
*Giving the importance of tagging, I would think a link to the tagging article would not be amiss.
*The line "compared with social software such as the bookmark manager Del.icio.us,[2] the collaborative music service Last.fm,[3] and aNobii, another book cataloguing site.[4]" is really lopsided. Anobii is current number at best number 4 in the marketplace. LibraryThing is much more commonly compared to Shelfari and Goodreads. Anyway, the sentence mixes ideas. If the idea is to list real comparanda—things that do something different but *comparable*, it should stick to Delicious, Flickr, Last.fm and so forth. You can throw in other social catalogers like Squirl, WineLog, BoardGameGeek, etc. But if the idea is to mention some competitors, Anobii is an odd choice. Actually linking to an article about Anobii seems frankly promotional to me.
*If you want to put competitors, it might be worth it to have a paragraph on the topic. I'd write it noting that there are more than 30 so far, but that the field has become increasingly hot, with Shelfari getting funded by Amazon, Goodreads doing well, some Facebook aps picking up, and so forth.
*I think it's time to retire the mention of the Google group. It's been defunct for almost a year.
*The "very short introduction" should say that it's by us, lest someone think it's an impartial thing.
*In general, I think the page is very favorable to LibraryThing, maybe even over so, but it doesn't cover some of the most *interesting* things about the site, such as how it's inspired people in the library and information studies field. (I'd link to my talk at the Library of Congress.) A mention of our "LibraryThing for Libraries" product also seems consequential, as does our partnership with Random House. Since it's Wikipedia a link to how we parse Wikipedia looking for books, something nobody else has ever done, also would be cool.
Signed 24.198.80.98
-Wow. Catchy name I have! 24.198.80.98
-PS: Would it be wrong to post about this entry on LibraryThing, and ask people to come over and think about it? Obviously, I support everything Wikipedia stands for. If LT members said non-NPOV stuff, they should be stopped. 24.198.80.98
PPS: I am annoyed by the downtime statement, but it's probably fair to have. It's news. I regret that some of our competitors are not labeled as "perpetually slow." :)
:The above has been posted by Tim Spalding.  See also http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=17679.  Noisy | Talk 18:48, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments from LibraryThing's founder 

message: Does anyone know when LibraryThing is going to be done its beta run?  It's been around for several years but it's still beta.  Thanks Kristamaranatha (talk) 23:02, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "I plan to keep LT in beta forever. Beta means a license to explore and expand--a notice to the user that things may chance, and that's okay--and we have a lot of that left to do..." —Tim, January 13, 2007. --zenohockey (talk) 16:49, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beta 

message: (Warning: I'm the founder of LibraryThing.) I think it was right to remove the gratuitous URLs to foreign versions of LibraryThing. But I think a case could be made to keep mention of some of the languages. It's interesting and unusual that LibraryThing has translations into Welsh, for example. Anyway, just a thought. Lectiodifficilior (talk) 04:35, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing international URLs 

message: Hi. This is the founder of LibraryThing, Tim Spalding. A change needs to happen and I *clearly* can't be the person who does it. LibraryThing acquired a new minority partner, Cambridge Information Group (CIG), and distributor to libraries (Bowker). The move itself is, I think, interesting enough to make the page. But whether it is or not the ownership list and percents is now factually incorrect. It was 60/40 me, Abebooks. The new numbers are not disclosed, but it is disclosed that I still have the majority.
Here are some links:
*http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6631420.html Library Journal
*http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=52416 Information Today
*http://www.librarything.com/blog/2009/01/librarything-and-cigthe-deal.php LT blog
*http://www.bowker.com/index.php/press-releases/548-cig-makes-equity-investment-in-librarything Bowker (broken now?)
Tim  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lectiodifficilior (talk • contribs) 18:40, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ownership changed 

message: I've just come to realize that this article does not mention this sites possibly unique feature - Early Reviewers. Publishers can list books that they are willing to give away in exchange for a review posted on LibraryThing. Both currently released and occasionally pre-release books are offered. These occur in monthly batches. Members select which books they would like to receive and then the LibraryThing system uses some dark magic (i.e. users book data) to see which members who requested a book are most likely to enjoy it. The winners address is then passed to the publisher who sends out the book. I can't think of any other company that does this. Yet I can't think of a neutral tone to include it in - perhaps someone else could?  
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.146.139.199 (talk) 20:27, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested Notable Features 

message: If yes, say how.    
If not, say not.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.165.11.228 (talk) 01:35, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can you check out / give / lend books through LibraryThing? 

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