Welcome to Katherine Evelyn Holland, born May 7 (6 pounds 11 ounces, 18.5 inches*), to LibraryThing developer Chris (ConceptDawg) and his wife Ashley. Mother and daughter are doing great. Chris has a “permanent smile” on.
*That’s 3033 grams, 46.9 centimeters. Who says we don’t do metric?
Labels: adorable, chris, LibraryThing babies
We just added over six-hundred and fifty events to LibraryThing Local, LibraryThing’s portal for local bookstores, libraries and events.
The events come direct from our friends at BookSense, the nationwide organization of over 1,200 independent bookstores. They made their complete events calendar available to us, and we were only to happy to add all the events we didn’t already know about.
BookSense is the best; if you have a favorite local bookstore, chances are they’re a BookSense store.* BookSense also gets the best authors. Upcoming events include David Sedaris at Vroman’s in Pasadena and Salman Rushdie at Vroman’s and at Caucer’s in Santa Barbara. Of course, as happens with distributed data collection, not every BookSense store has their events in the feed. And some events had already been added by members. Be the total gain is some 660 upcoming events—a big leap. We’ll be updating from th BookSense feed periodically from now on, which should take some of the data-entry load off of dedicated LibraryThing members.
So, thanks to the people at BookSense for working with us on this, and happy event-attending to the rest of us.
PS: There’s a short article about this in the ABA’s Bookselling this Week by David Grogan.
*My favorites—Books, Etc., Longfellow Books and the Harvard Coop—are all BookSense stores. My wife spent much of her 20s working at another, Bookline Booksmith, together with her best friend, who went on to work at Booksense. So, I’ve wanted LibraryThing to do something BookSense since we started.
Labels: authors, booksense, librarything local, new feature, new features
May’s batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 51 books this month, and a grand total 1,115 copies to give out.
Some of the big highlights include the new Neal Stephenson (Anathem) and The Given Day by Dennis Lehane! Or would you rather read The Inverted World by Christopher Priest? The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen? Is historical fiction more your thing? Try Hallam’s War by Elisabeth Payne Rosen”. In the mood for some Norman Mailer? Request a copy of Miami and the Siege of Chicago. On the nonfiction side, how about a little bit of everything, with The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 2…
First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, *please* check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.
Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list
The deadline to request a copy is Monday, May 19th at 6pm EDT.
Eligiblity:
Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, and for the first time, Australia! We only have one Australian publisher (I’m sure those 15 books will be coveted), but we’re working on getting more for the future.
Thanks to all the publishers, new and old!
| Algonquin Books | Andrews McMeel Publishing | Bantam |
| Berkley | Canongate Books | Clerisy Press |
| Cypress House | Delacorte Press | Faber and Faber |
| Farrar Straus Giroux | Fremantle Press | Harper |
| Hatherleigh Press | Hyperion | LJW Publishing |
| Loving Healing Press | Menasha Ridge Press | Mirrorstone |
| Modern History Press | North Atlantic Books | NYRB Classics |
| Other Press | Picador | St. Martin’s Griffin |
| Trumpeter | Unbridled Books | W.W. Norton |
| William Morrow | Wizards of the Coast | Zoland Books |
Labels: early reviewers, LTER
I made some changes to the look and functionality of the “top bar” in Your Library. They include new “pads,” new icons, yellow and baby-blue colors and new tag functionality. Non-English users will also notice the labels can nw be translated–no more untranslateable “text as image.”
List:
Covers:
Tags:
The tag bar includes a new new features. “Down” and “Across” control whether the tags are sorted “down” (like an index) or “across” (like some other things). You can also control the size of the text and the space between tags, and the number of columns to show.
Come talk about the change and suggest more on Talk.
Labels: new feature, new features, tags
