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Advantages of Library Thing
A friend of mine just asked what the advantage of putting books in to Library Thing is.
So I thought I'd reply here as people might like to add their own thoughts as comments.
For me, the biggest advantage (and not one that I'd originally expected) is re-discovering old friends. As I enter each book (I rarely do more than five a day, and haven't done any in the last few weeks I've been rather under the weather) I give it a rating and often write a review. This forces me to think about the book, why I keep it, whether I like it. The result has been that quite a few books have been given away as I realise that I've grown beyond them (or that they were crap in the first place), but also that I've started to read books that I owned that I'd never actually gotten around to reading, and I'm also re-reading many old friends that had become forgotten.
In short, I'm getting much better value out of the books that I own as well as getting better recommendations for more books to read.
eg. I've just reread all my Francis Hodgson Burnett books - which I'd almost forgotten I had. Having finished those, I asked Library Thing what it suggested to follow " The Secret Garden". The suggestions included "Winnie the Pooh" which feels just like what I need right now.
Anyone feel like making me a 'book' icon? One suitable for thoughts about books, or reviews of books?
So I thought I'd reply here as people might like to add their own thoughts as comments.
For me, the biggest advantage (and not one that I'd originally expected) is re-discovering old friends. As I enter each book (I rarely do more than five a day, and haven't done any in the last few weeks I've been rather under the weather) I give it a rating and often write a review. This forces me to think about the book, why I keep it, whether I like it. The result has been that quite a few books have been given away as I realise that I've grown beyond them (or that they were crap in the first place), but also that I've started to read books that I owned that I'd never actually gotten around to reading, and I'm also re-reading many old friends that had become forgotten.
In short, I'm getting much better value out of the books that I own as well as getting better recommendations for more books to read.
eg. I've just reread all my Francis Hodgson Burnett books - which I'd almost forgotten I had. Having finished those, I asked Library Thing what it suggested to follow " The Secret Garden". The suggestions included "Winnie the Pooh" which feels just like what I need right now.
Anyone feel like making me a 'book' icon? One suitable for thoughts about books, or reviews of books?
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On the left hand side of the page there is a list menu. Click on "Common Knowledge".
Near the top of the page, if the book is part of a series, it will say something like "Albert Campion Series (4)"
Click on that, and you will get a list of books in the series and it should also show you which one of them you own.
There are other ways into this, and some series do not yet have an entry and it's up to us to enter them...
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