Topic 18: Library Thing

I had a look at LibraryThing and like what I see. I currently use GoodReads via Facebook and have 150 books on that I've recalled reading or have read since joining Facebook a year ago. So I don't think I'll switch over - particularly as I use it to keep track of what I've read. LibraryThing seems to indicate you use it to catalogue books you own and I borrow a lot of books from my local public library. But it might be fun to use it for the books I actually own. I like the tagging and book recommendation functions which GoodReads doesn't have.

As for the task for this topic I found it very easy to add five books I own to LibraryThing. I have added a widget of my little library to my blog - see the right handside column under my Tags (To do the same, go to Dashboard - Layout - Page elements - Add a gadget - HTML/Java Script and copy and paste the embedded widget script from the Tools tab (clickMake a standard blog widget) of your LibraryThing page into the HTML/Java Script gadget box). Something like this would be great to use to publicise new books added to a library's collection. Perhaps a widget could be added to a student intranet page and a scrolling book image might catch a student's eye. The student could click on it and be shown the details of the book and which library has it.