Well, it's not an opac, if that's what you were thinking. It's one of
the many "social" sites, in this case based around what books you care
to "catalog" into it. Kind of a "flickr" for book people. I personally
see it as a great way to create a bibliography (albeit just for books --
I'd love to be able to add articles with the same single click) that I
can search and that I can export -- for the time when I finally find a
personal bibliographic system that works for me.
kc
Ross Singer wrote:
> So, in a meeting today (in a group that is designing our community
> contributed catalog, Communicat) we were discussing LibraryThing.
>
> Who uses this? And for what? It seems a... somewhat pointless service.
>
> Regardless of how useful it may be to actually get the metadata and
> whatnot.
>
> -Ross.
>
>
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