Things You Can Do

1. Put LibraryThing on your blog

Put a widget on your blog and show your visitors what you're reading now, random books from your collection, your tag cloud, etc.

Make a standard blog widget shows books, authors or tags

Make a search widget let your visitors search your library right on your blog

New: We're beta-testing LiveJournal- and MySpace-compatible widgets (It also works on Wordpress, so try this if the standard widget isn't working for you).

2. Get LibraryThing on your cell phone

Check whether you've got it when you're standing in the bookshop. LibraryThing Mobile gives you the power of LibraryThing and the... oh I'm sure you get it.

Point your phone's browser to: http://www.librarything.com/m | Non-mobile tester page.

3. Find Friends

Your friends may already be on LibraryThing! Find people you know who are already on LibraryThing. Invite others to see your books and join LibraryThing.

4. Show off thingies

Put one of these small images (a "chiclet") on your blog, linking to your profile or catalog.

5. Signature lines

Create a signature line for email and other forums.

6. Explore LibraryThing APIs and Easy Linking

LibraryThing offers a number of APIs, and easy ways to link to works.

7. Add the Amazon Bookmarklet

Browse Amazon, and when you find something you have or like, click on the LibraryThing bookmarklet and it will add it to your library.

Add to LibraryThing

How to add: Almost all browsers will allow you to drag the link to your toolbar directly. If that doesn't work, right click and select "save bookmark" (or similar wording).

Compatibility: Works with Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.fr and Amazon.de and Amazon.jp.

8. Make a photomosaic?

See all your covers to make a photomosaic or a poster of them.

Free books

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Sign up for LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program to receive free pre-publication books from publishers in exchange for reviews.

See all the books available this month

Stuff to Buy

LibraryThing Store

Buy memberships, CueCat barcode scanners, t-shirts...

Cheap barcode scanner

Buy a CueCat scanner from LibraryThing. They're only $15. They plug into your USB port and read bar codes, including those pesky Borders product ids.

Gift Accounts

Send a friend a yearly or lifetime account.

Lifetime membership ($25)

Year membership ($10)

ThingStore on CafePress

T-Shirts, bags, mugs, and schwag galore.

CafePress: ThingStore

Account Options

Upgrade to a paid account

Change your user name or password

Lost password?

Import/Export

Import

Universal Import flexibly imports data from files and web pages. Supports Delicious Library, BookCollector, Amazon Wishlists—even home-cooked databases.

Specialty imports: Import from Vox.

Export

Export as CSV | Export as tab-delimited text

Sample file

If you'd like to create your own spreadsheet and you need a starting point you can download our pre-formatted CSV spreadsheet.

LibraryThing Sample CSV

Help?

Frequently Asked Questions

Go ahead and take the tour!

Read "A very short introduction to LibraryThing"

LibraryThing Culture

On other sites

LiveJournal: LibraryThing Users

Flickr: tag/librarything

"LibraryThing" Jaiku channel

Contests

See all the past book pile contest winners.