| Activity | Groups |
          | 681 members 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… |
          | 648 members 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… |
          | Standing group (no members) Note that this is a discussion group. To actually sign up for Early Reviewers make sure to fill out the sign-up page. The list of available books -- changes monthly Mark a book as unreceived, if you… |
          | Standing group (no members) A place to make recommendations for functions or features you'd like to see incorporate into LibraryThing. |
          | 474 members 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,… |
          | 157 members 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. |
          | 159 members 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. |
          | 192 members The is the BETA group for LibraryThing. This group is run by the LT staff and is for testing and feedback of advanced features on LibraryThing. We will occasionally post URLs to proof-of-concept… |
          | 120 members All series related questions, requests, debates, etc. |
          | 114 members The objective of this group is to create a central location for people to discuss and plan in-person gatherings. All are welcome to join to discuss the best places and best times to gather. Please… |
          | 232 members Discussing the multitudinous ways to organize your book collection through tags. |
          | 123 members Grup que pretén reunir els catalans, catalanoparlants (totes les variants incloses) i catalanòfils presents a LibraryThing. Inicialment dedicat als dubtes sobre la traducció al català, hi caben… |
          | Standing group (no members) General catch-all for LibraryThing related discussions |
          | 91 members 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… |
          | 213 members LibraryThing sell CueCats! (See here.) Many users already have them. I've started this group to answer questions, and let CueCaters trade info. For more help with your CueCat, check out the FAQ |
          | 62 members Hacking LibraryThing is a place to share and talk about use of various plugins and techniques to modify and customize the LibraryThing experience. Want a place to post a snippet of your Greasemonkey… |
          | Standing group (no members) This is a group for LibraryThing staff to announce and discuss new features and other improvements with members. Unlike every other group, we discourage starting new topics, unless you've actually… |
          | 124 members This group was created to be Talk for those who don't talk much on LT now. This includes introverts, lurkers, those too busy to read threads with 150+ messages, and those who want to have… |
          | 121 members Admit it...you’re addicted to LibraryThing. It’s okay, there is no shame in it, and admitting you have a problem is the fist step. Let this group unite LibraryThing addicts from around the globe… |
          | 69 members * A place to put links to updates and information about LibraryThing from LT staff * A way to keep tabs on the elusive genius that is LT... |
          | 79 members This is for general issues with LibraryThing's new you-translate-it translation feature. Feel free to note bugs, untranslated pages and snippets. Look here for official translation guidelines and… |
          | 50 members 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… |
          | 17 members Talk about adding author and venue pictures and photos, issues of copyright, flagging pictures, quarantine, and more. |
          | 42 members Discuss all aspects of the LibraryThing Local feature here. |
          | 37 members For those who want to discuss why they flagged something, those who've been flagged and discussions over what is and isn't appropriate, reviews, posts, pictures, if you can flag we want to hear about… |
          | Standing group (no members) Author Chat has scheduled discussions with authors. Each "chat" will be contained in one topic thread. So come up with your questions, and start asking! Authors who are interested in having their own… |
          | 61 members 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… |
          | 50 members This is a group for people working on the Swedish translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 51 members A group for readers in / speakers of Esperanto, the International Language. Look here for ideas on what to read in Esperanto (and where to get it), for reviews of new and old books in Esperanto and… |
          | 37 members "If you make them do stuff, people will fill them in." This is a group for people who love LT's date fields (Date Read, Date Started, etc.) and want to see them getting a bit more attention. We've… |
          | 84 members This group's members include those Legacy Library subjects who spent all or part of their lives in America and collected primarily before 1825. Their books have been carefully cataloged using printed… |
          | 27 members Follow and help develop the various LibraryThing APIs. Non-programmers should feel free to suggest cool new widgets they'd like to see. |
          | 13 members Grup d'ajuda a usuaris novells i no tan novells. Hem detectat que tots plegats tenim molts dubtes quan comencem a navegar per LibraryThing i aquest grup serveix per plantejar-los i intentar… |
          | 30 members Please read the "About this group" for more information. |
          | 27 members This is a group for people working on the Finnish translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 17 members Arr! Read ye first message, me hearties. |
          | 57 members Grupa użytkowników polskojęzycznej wersji LibraryThing. Pytania i odpowiedzi, wymiana doświadczeń, wrażenia z korzystania z LibraryThing. |
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          | 21 members Dear friends; The group creator is a technical person and interested mainly in what LibraryThing can do in a **collaborative work** on different authors, areas of interest, diffeerent other topics… |
          | 33 members Experimental group for translating LibraryThing into Greek. LibraryThing doesn't handle any Greek libraries yet, but at least this can give us some experience with Greek character sets. Notably,… |
          | 14 members People at the barbeque |
          | 2 members Somewhat similar to 'Reviews Reviewed,' this is seen as a place to solicit comments on your own profile or to suggest to others any profiles that are interesting, informative, different, imaginative,… |
          | Standing group (no members) A group for new members to introduce themselves, ask questions and learn about everything the LibraryThing community and site have to offer. LibraryThing is a rich site, with a number of different… |
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          | 596 members I hereby invite you to join the Open Shelves Classification (OSC), a free, "humble," modern, open-source, crowd-sourced replacement for the Dewey Decimal System. Much of the work here is being done… |
          | 113 members This is a group for people working on the Spanish translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 30 members A place for LibraryThing users to discuss limitations with the site's accessibility and proposed improvements. Conversations may include discussions of legal requirements, Web standards, difficulties… |
          | 95 members By popular demand, here's a group for Portuguese Portuguese. The translation has been pre-populated with the Brazilian Portuguese translation. So, as someone said, it's time to "de-Brazilianize" it… |
          | 75 members This is a group for people working on the German translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 65 members Talpra magyar... |
          | 33 members I was just noticing how much more I am reading and with how much more focus and direction. While I was picking books at random in the used book store, now I am going with a list of books I want and… |
          | 68 members This is a group for people working on the French translation of LibraryThing. Le groups pour les traducteurs en français de LibraryThing |
          | 57 members LibraryThing Early Reviewers + Blogs + Tuesdays = Tuesday Thingers! |
          | 29 members La richesse de Librarything fait aussi sa complexité et certains d'entre nous peuvent avoir besoin d'aide en français. C'est l'objectif de ce groupe! Posez vos questions et nous essaierons d'y… |
          | 61 members An open source application for Palm OS that lets you have your LibraryThing catalog when away from the net. Also general discussion of PDA interaction with your library. |
          | 49 members Pour la promotion de Librarything en français. Plusieurs lecteurs francophones membres de Librarything se plaignent du manque d'activité en français sur le site. Plusieurs ont réagi au billet du… |
          | 19 members A group to discuss enhancements that we have thought of to our beloved LibraryThing |
          | 39 members BannedBooksLibrary is a LTer Project Library that will contain books that were and are banned, challenged, or otherwise censored throughout the world. It's just getting up and started--if you would… |
          | 31 members Down with Dewey. LibraryThing is now ready to create a free, open-source, modern, crowdsourced replacement for that peculiar, trademarked, copyrighted fossil that is the Dewey Decimal System®. This… |
          | 30 members This group is dedicated to the publicity LibraryThing members can generate for the website. Discuss methods of attracting people to the site, articles/blog posts you've spotted publicising LT as well… |
          | 9 members Discussion of the HelpThing and WikiThing features. HelpThing is an editable, member-written, contextual help for LibraryThing's features, concepts and culture. Each time you click on a Help link… |
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          | 21 members A place to discuss the use of and issues surrounding Book Links. |
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          | 73 members This is a group for people working on the Brazilian Portuguese translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 41 members Does you library use Library Thing? Are you thinking about ways your library can use LibraryThing? Want to talk with others about workflow, inspiration, best practices? Start here! |
          | 10 members Interested in volunteering to help catalog the contents of Benjamin Franklin's library? You've come to the right place! Benjamin Franklin on LT: BenjaminFranklin Google Books: The Library of Benjamin… |
          | 42 members This is a group for people working on the Norwegian translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 38 members המקום לדבר על ספרים - בעברית. The place to speak about books - in Hebrew. [Message from founder, Tim Spalding, December 5, 2007. I am suggesting that this group also be the… |
          | 5 members Redesign LibraryThing in real-time. Yes, really. See the blog post and here's an update. |
          | 41 members Group for people helping to translate LibraryThing in Turkish. |
          | 45 members Translators and users of the Italian LT. |
          | 32 members Group for libraries using or interested in using LibraryThing for Libraries. |
          | 28 members Someone take this group from me! |
          | 29 members For people who want to develop on LibraryThing or from LibraryThing data. |
          | 21 members This is a bad group name but I can't think of anything else to describe a group that discusses ways to use LibraryThing more efficiently. |
          | 19 members Authors we hope to see on LibraryThing! Post your wishlist of authors! LibraryThing Authors List LibraryThing's 100 author blog post Author Websites: Amy Tan, Gail Tsukiyama, Audrey Niffenegger,… |
          | 17 members This is a group for people working on the Czech translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 9 members This group is for people to share tips and ask questions about creating and displaying all the various LT blog widgets. Standard blog widgets Search widgets LiveJournal- and MySpace-compatible… |
          | 9 members A group to discuss, praise, rant about, rate, etc. the various recommendations functions on LibraryThing. The ultimate goal would be that the wisdom collected here could lead to even better… |
          | 21 members Since joining LibraryThing I've noticed I am more likely to buy a book, join a website or check out a new place I've read about here than on any other site I participated in before LT. This site, the… |
          | 18 members For people who use LibraryThing and Google Wave together! Or at the same time, anyway. |
          | 9 members To discuss small programs that would run on a PERSONAL COMPUTER using exported data from LT. And in the future possibly integrate with LT (only with Tims approval, of course) |
          | 18 members This is a group for people working on the Lithuanian translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 18 members This is a group for people working on the Croatian translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 16 members Aquest grup es per debatre l'us, pros i contres de LibraryThing a biblioteques (universitaries, publiques...). Des de crear "col-leccions" a LibraryThing de novetats, bibliografia recomanada, etc. a… |
          | 12 members This is a group for people working on the Welsh translation of LibraryThing. |
          | FYI (Dormant)12 members A place to distill all the great LT advice, kind of like a FAQ without the questions. Just a place to put the Answers to the FAQ's. Ways to perform tasks and other useful site helps and hints. This… |
          | 14 members ;o) |
          | 14 members This is a group for people working on the Danish translation of LibraryThing. |
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          | 5 members Group for discussing the Maori translation of LibraryThing (http://mi.librarything.com), and other issues of interest to Maori-speaking LibraryThingers. This group was started by Tim, the founder of… |
          | 6 members LibraryThing has been around long enough that I'm sure there are some stories of budding romance... tales of soulmates meeting on LT... impending weddings, or just amazing new friendships. A group… |
          | 5 members For discussion of LibraryThing in Slovak. I don't speak Slovak, so write to me and take this board off my hands. |
          | 5 members This is the translation group for idl.librarything.com, your opportunity to rewrite LibraryThing. |
          | 6 members Why not have a #librarything-chat in IRC? Well, here we are.. What is IRC? "Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group… |
          | 7 members A group for members interested in the techniques used to add parts of a work to the LT catalog. |
          | 7 members For people who use Google Book Search - especially its new personal library feature, and ways to make it work in conjunction with LibraryThing. |
          | 2 members This is a test for my IS 567 social networking site analysis. |
          | 2 members I answer a lot of questions in the Groups here. Some of those answers are useful and I've tried to gather those here so that I can refer to them and not have to answer the same questions over again.… |
          | 4 members This is a group for people working on the Irish translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 3 members Interested in helping to identify the books in Willa Cather's personal library? If so, please join the discussion(s) at the bottom of this page in the Group Talk area. Willa Cather on LT:… |
          | 2 members A group devoted to discovering whether Tim is infiltrating this or other test groups in the guise of slightly insane new members. Will Tim jump in quickly under some new nom de plume, or will he lie… |
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          | 3 members This is a group for people working on the Basque translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 4 members This is a group for people working on the Albanian translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 4 members This is a group for people working on the Latvian translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 9 members This is a group for people working on the Bulgarian translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 7 members This is a group for people working on the Estonian translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 8 members This is a group for people working on the Icelandic translation of LibraryThing. |
          | 5 members For those translating LibraryThing into any fictional or constructed language -- or who otherwise dabble in them to no useful end. Ti-tijpejf'am-tuh LibraryThing'anam are'in meruowdoh'ind… |
          | 1 member What statistics/memes would you like to see regarding your library? I would like to know how many referennces in my library are there to dogs hell boats sickness madness love music alcohol (let's not… |
          | 1 member {{{chatlist}}} |
          | 5 members مجموعة متخصصة في دعم اللغة العربية في بيئة شيءٌمكتباتي. هدف المجموعة هو توفير جو من التكاثف والعمل التطوعي من… |
          | 1 member This is a place to list the authors you have found through Library Thing, and to express appreciation or the reverse. You might have found them by browsing through someone's catalog, reading a… |