Go to LibraryThing (http://www.librarything.com/) and “Take the tour,” to read a little bit about the different features of LibraryThing.
Sign up for an account.
Add books to your library
Just type in the title, author, or ISBN (a nice feature for those of you who have bar-code scanners at your desk…), and then select your book from the list that pops up on the right. You can search Amazon or the Library of Congress.
If your book or edition does not appear, you can build a new record for it from scratch by clicking “Add the book manually”
Tag your books -
You can add tags to your books when you are building your library, or by clicking the pencil icon next to the record.
Write reviews of your books
To write a review of a book, you have to click on the ‘pencil’ icon next to the book on your library page.
Things To Do
Explore the Suggestions – try the book Suggester and Un-Suggester.
Add your profile to your blogroll.
Add LibraryThing and your profile to your del.icio.us list.
Write a blog post – What if the library catalog acted like this? What do you like about LibraryThing? What do you wish was different?
