LibraryThing.com is a free online application that allows you to catalogue your books, list your current reading, search for books around the same theme, genre, topic, search for authors, titles, dust jackets etc and share your reading interests with others in the global community through social networking. You may enter 200 titles for free. There is a $10 US a year fee to add more than 200 titles, and a life membership of $25 US to add as many titles as you like. I have a free membership, but credit cards do work well here.
Library Thing operates like a conventional library and is networked to Amazon and world-wide libraries. This application becomes a book club and a search feature rolled in to one, through the social networking, RSS feature included.When you tag your books you also contribute to a cloud. From the cloud I enjoy looking at the keywords others have used, and their thinking around the themes they have taken from the book.
Library Thing allows you to have multiple users, in the same account concurrently. This is a really useful attribute allowing you to have a group / class contributing at the same time.
So how have I used LibraryThing in my professional life.
Establishing a class reading list.
Books around an Inquiry learning topic
Class read texts / shared stories
New books added to your school library. (You can change the number of texts shown on a blog wiki etc on the left hand side under Blog widgets.
A recommended reading list for children and teachers.
Books of same genre.
Reviews
Literature circles, eg Dan Browne,
• reviews of his books
• writing styles
• genres
• themes
• malapropisms
Across school/ syndicate/ cluster collaboration
Buddy classes
And there is a widget available that updates onto your blog or wiki. I add it onto the right hand side navigation bar where you can springboard to LibraryThing. Happy reading.
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