AbeBooks' Reading Copy

Anyone who uses LibraryThing will know that it is constantly evolving. Tim Spalding and his team are regularly pushing through new initiatives and the latest one is particularly interesting from the perspective of AbeBooks and secondhand bookstores in general. LibraryThing’s latest innovation, introduced yesterday, is a ‘local book search’. Basically, when you come across a [...]

The BookTour site launch earlier this summer – which hopes to help authors and audiences meet. Authors create a profile and put in their events and appearances, and then book lovers can search for an event (by book, author or location). It’s only for the US at the moment, but looks like it could be [...]

I was poking around on LibraryThing.com, as I often do, and noticed that there were 90,000 titles tagged “to be read”. Of all of the tbr-tagged titles, I had read 3 of them; my favourite by far being The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. This is an engaging and poignant tale of a man [...]

Librarything just announced the winners of their cookbook pile contest. The object of the game was to take the most interesting photo of your pile of cookbooks for fabulous cash and prizes. You can take a look at the winners and runners up here

Librarything has announced a neat new feature where users can sign up to receive advance copies of books in exchange for writing reviews.

Somebody should recommend LibraryThing to this writer on The Guardian, who just can’t stop wondering what books people have on their bookshelves.

LibraryThing.com members attended a ‘party’ in the Second Life 3-D virtual world at the weekend. It seemed very successful, especially as a Second Life newbie turned up naked after losing her clothes and being unable to recover them. I know a few people who have this problem at ‘this life’ parties.

Following the official launch of BookHints at AbeBooks.com yesterday, we have a few interesting observations about this book recommendation system based on the collections of LibraryThing.com members. Most people who own a so-called literary classic, like say Moby Dick , are highly likely to also own other classics – perhaps Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Gulliver’s Travels.  The same [...]

Today, we’re thrilled to unveil BookHints on AbeBooks.com and AbeBooks.co.uk. BookHints is a unique book recommendation system based on the personal libraries of LibraryThing.com members. LibraryThing.com is a social networking and book cataloging site for booklovers. Check out this article from Saturday’s New York Times to see how the mainstream media is just starting to understand [...]

Following my post of a few weeks ago, the list of the 10 books you can’t live without has been posted on the World Book Day Web site: Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 20% Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkein 17% Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 14% Harry Potter books – J K [...]