At some point I’ll stop blogging about LibraryThing, but it won’t be easy with the amount of material they provide. Tonight’s discovery via this post on the LibraryThing blog is the transcribed marginalia of John Adams. Before blogs allowed people to offer comment on everything they read and tediously deconstruct arguments paragraph by paragraph for ..
Posts on Books
Bookshelves of the Deceased
27 Mar 2008
The street booksellers of New York who haunt the estate sales of deceased book lovers know where to get the best books. Via LibraryThing’s I See Dead People’s Books group:
James Joyce, genius:
· The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
· The Book of the Land of Ire, Being a Record of Those Things That Were ..
All Bookish Social Networks Considered
20 Mar 2008
NPR’s Martha Woodroof interviewed me for a piece on bookish social networks last month and the spot aired on All Things Considered today. Check it out here. Since the interview I’ve been all over LibraryThing. And since LibraryThing started bridging the gap between virtual and real bookish social networks with LibraryThing Local, GoodReads has hooked ..
The Big List of Things I Like About LibraryThing
07 Mar 2008
#3: book covers.
A year ago I rounded up a fairly big list of bookish social networks. I’ve since tried a number of them (as the list has grown to something like 40 bookish competitors) and was pretty hyped up about Google Book Search until their embeddable book clippings started breaking and I realized their ..
Sample-Spotting McLuhan
17 Nov 2007
Books sampled in Marshall McLuhan’s War and Peace in the Global Village (1968):
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
The Codebreakers by David Kahn
The Senses by Otto Lowenstein
Theories of Personality by Calvin S. Hall and Gardner Lindzey
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
The Human Revolution by Ashley Montagu
Medieval Technology ..
Google Searching Your Bookshelf
07 Sep 2007
Photo: Flickr user gregw
Back in February, I reviewed all the book-oriented social networks I could find and concluded that what I really wanted was a more personalized version of Google Books. The rich related content with which Google surrounds many books is what makes it so valuable. Compare the book information pages for A ..
