Our First New Zealand Legacy Library! Comparing LT and Other Book Sites Talk about LibraryThing LibraryThing. This topic is currently marked as "dormant"—the last message is more than 90 days old. You can revive it by posting a reply. 1booksontrial Sep 21, 2010, 5:11pm The recent frequent LT down times got me thinking about alternatives to LT, which I haven't done since joining LT, because my experience here has been an enjoyable one. During last night's downtime, I checked out goodreads.com. To my surprise, the number of reviews (of the few books I checked) is about 10 times that on LT, which means goodreads has far more members than LT. Have you used goodreads or other book sites, how do you like them compared to LT? 2_Zoe_ Sep 21, 2010, 5:28pm I don't use GR much, but I think it's generally seen as more accessible.
LT does seem to have a longer tail than GR, though. 3theapparatus Edited: Sep 21, 2010, 5:36pm Looks that way: LT: 1,193,555 members GR: 3,600,000+ members I think LT is more about indexing while other sites are more about the social aspects of networking around books and reading. 6keristars. LibraryThing Search - WikiThing. <<back to Help and Frequently Asked Questions This is a Help or FAQ page Please answer LibraryThing related questions here (and on the other Help and FAQ pages). To ASK questions, however, please use Talk. Types of search on LibraryThing There are 3 main search venues for book-related information on LibraryThing: Site-wide search: searching across the whole site for books, authors, ISBN, tags, etc.
Each of these methods has access to different sets of data and uses specialized search engines tuned to give the best performance for that particular data. Site-wide Search How do I execute a site-wide search to find a particular book, author, or tag page? Use the Search box at the top-right corner of each page. For more detailed information, see Site-wide Search Catalog Search Catalog search syntax In the catalog search terms are character strings not keywords. Sample searches Acceptable modifier prefixes * private comments are only searchable within your own catalog. Common Knowledge Search. Librarything versus Goodreads Book cataloging services comparison. Goodreads vs. Librarything vs. Shelfari. Good Reads. BookLoversWiki - Princeton Public Library. Open Library. Our First New Zealand Legacy Library. LibraryThing Catalog your books online.
For Libraries. Groups I See Dead People's Books. A group for those interested and involved in entering the personal libraries of famous readers into LibraryThing as Legacy Libraries. For discussions of the libraries of those still among the living, head on over to the "Other Peoples' Libraries" group. Browse, search, and augment Legacy Library data via the Legacy Libraries page.
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