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Links of Interest (At least to me) 2007006017

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The Return
It has come to my attention that although the link blog does get visited, links I really really like don’t get the usual traffic. So I am reinstating Links of Interest. Here goes.

LibraryThing goes over 15,000,000 books (Now that is a lot of books).

LibraryThing demonstrates something we always knew—that regular people have a lot of books—probably many times what all the world’s libraries hold. I’ve never seen the relative numbers discussed. It never mattered before, but now that regular people can put their catalogs online and engage in tasks, like tagging and work disambiguation, that bear on age-old issues of library science, it’s not entirely pointless to compare the two.

I don’t know why for sure, but I’m desperately excited by the this news. Mcclatchy are launching a new news website nationally in the US. They also run a spiffy blog for news editors called Etaoin Shrdlu (Yeah the name took me a minute too, so here‘s an explanation link).

For all you Lulu.com curious this link is certainly a beaut. Simple, structured, its like the missing manual for lulu.com. Here

4 responses to “Links of Interest (At least to me) 2007006017”

  1. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    I had never heard of LibraryThing and now that I have I’m not sure it’s such a good thing. I signed up in the spirit of sharing but have now developed an internal competition to see if I can catalogue books that no-one else has, I wonder what the odds are considering the 15,000,000 books registered so far?
    Despite my need to get a life I’ll say thanks for the introduction…

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  2. Deborah Woehr Avatar
    Deborah Woehr

    Thank you for the kind words and the link. 🙂

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  3. eoinpurcell Avatar
    eoinpurcell

    Laura,
    I love LibraryThing in a way that can only be good. It’s a wonderful discovery engine for books which I love.

    Deborah,
    Your welcome. Your blog is really great!
    Eoin

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  4. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    Hi Eoin,
    I do agree that it is a wonderful thing, and I love the idea of finding out what people with similar tastes are reading and then expanding on my comfort zone. It should be an introduction to a world of new authors, oh and I did manage to catalogue a book that no one else had registered!

    Thanks also for the link to Deborah’s blog, I read about lulu.com last year but found it a little daunting, it’s great to hear from someone who has through the process.

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