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.
Might not be useful for your purposes, but there are 46,000 users; mostly, it
appears, using it for cataloging their own libraries. I found messing around
with LibraryThing--especially the social aspects-- quite illuminating, both
as a reader and as the servant of readers.
Stats from http://www.librarything.com/users.php
"Books cataloged 3,281,622
Total users 46,486 (since August 29, 2005)
Unique works 896,001
Total tags 4,803,606
Total reviews 41,327
Total ratings 460,478
User-contributed covers 89,276 "
Miriam Bobkoff home: mbobkoff_at_cybermesa.com
Santa Fe Public Library work: mkbobkoff_at_santafenm.gov
Received on Wed Jun 21 2006 - 22:15:52 EDT