Community projects

Bug Collectors

This is the place to post or discuss bugs on LibraryThing. It's not a wishlist for features, nor a list of things that could be better. The Bug Tracking page can be reached here Join or watch this group to see "Bug Tracking" on the sidebar of your…

Name that Book

Have you forgotten the name of a book you once read? This group is here to help you find it again. Start your book search by clicking on the Post a new topic option and... (1) Enter a helpful Subject line that includes a genre and a clue.Long…

Legacy Libraries

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"…

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions -- Ask, add and/or answer. This is an unofficial, informal group. For the Official FAQ, go here or click on the "About" tab. The FAQ is the 3rd link on the left hand side.

Hobnob with Authors

This is a group for readers and authors to connect. Unlike the rest of the groups, this is a "safe space" for authors to promote and converse about their books without fear of being accused of spamming. Authors are encouraged to chat with members,…

Common Knowledge, WikiThing, HelpThing

For discussion of LibraryThing's unique "Common Knowledge" feature—a sort of "fielded wiki" available on work and author pages—and our more conventional wiki, WikiThing.

Author Interviews: You ask the questions!

Each month, we conduct a few exclusive interviews with authors and then publish the interviews in LibraryThing's monthly State of the Thing newsletter. We're going to try something new—crowdsourcing part of the interview, and using questions from…

Combiners!

When to combine? When not to combine? How the #!% did they get combined? Welcome to an Anarchists' Convention ... "World domination through work combination!" -- Tim, March 5, 2007 Rules for combining: Do no harm. Disambiguations! Disambiguation…

Librarything Series

All series related questions, requests, debates, etc.

Flash-Mob Cataloging

Flash-Mob Cataloging is when a horde of LibraryThing members descend on some small library, catalog their books in LibraryThing, eat some pizza, talk some talk and leave them with a gleaming new LibraryThing catalog. Join us here to plan future…

LibraryThing API Development

Follow and help develop the various LibraryThing APIs. Non-programmers should feel free to suggest cool new widgets they'd like to see.

Author and venue pictures

Talk about adding author and venue pictures and photos, issues of copyright, flagging pictures, quarantine, and more.

Redesign LibraryThing!

Redesign LibraryThing in real-time. Yes, really. See the blog post and here's an update.

Librarything Local

Discuss all aspects of the LibraryThing Local feature here.

Spam Fighters!

This is a group for members devoted to finding, marking and removing spam members, books, and other data from LibraryThing. You are the wind beneath our wings. Photo by Flickr user freezelight (Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic)

 

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