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Archive for May, 2006
Covers
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006Thing1 & Thing2
Friday, May 19th, 2006Abebooks recently announced a partnership with LibraryThing. If you don’t know what LibraryThing is, it is an online service to help people catalog their books – with a social twist. You can tag, review and rate the books. LibraryThing compares your catalog, tags and ratings to other users to come up with some interesting lists, statistics and recommendations.
I’ve been using Delicious Library for a number of years since it catalogs all my media (CDs, books, DVDs, records), but LibraryThing may be interesting enough to perhaps pull me away from that piece of eye candy, and it is handy to have web access to your library whenever you’re away from home.
It’s a free sign-up, so try it out. It can be quite addictive as it starts to generate recommendations and you check out the libraries of people with similar books to yours.
The Big One-Oh.
Friday, May 12th, 2006Things are humming around here as we very close to starting our 10 year anniversary celebration. There is a lot going on in the offices as we “dot the is and cross the ts”, as they say — so much so that the blog is running a bit silent at the moment. As part of our 10 celebration we’ve got a great contest, a look at our history, stories for our booksellers and customers, and of course the launch of our new advertising campaign. May 15th, is when it all comes together — see you then.
Now, back to work!
RSS Feed
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006For those that are so inclined — there is an RSS feed for all the posts here on Reading Copy. Just add http://feeds.feedburner.com/abebooks to your favourite RSS reader.
Not sure what RSS is? Wikipedia has a long technical description or a simpler and more readable description is at this BBC Help page.
