State of the Thing - March 2026

Hello All! Our most recent issue of the State of the Thing newsletter is on its way to more than one million Thingamabrarians! This month we covered a range of new features, including "Smart Import," an easy way to add images to Talk, and Google sign-in to LibraryThing. We have a fun new List of the Month, 3,026 free Early Reviewer books, and an interview with author Lisa Unger. We also serve up all our regular news and columns, and we invite librarians to say "hi" at PLA in Minneapolis!

Feel free to launch a discussion here of anything in this month's issue, or to offer feedback on SOTT in general, or on specific sections, columns, or news items.

Read our March Issue online.

See our SOTT Archive for past issues.

>1 AbigailAdams26: I love the monthly State of the Thing newsletter and look forward to it each month. In fact, I just summarized March (and sent the link of it online) with my GR pals who I keep nudging to come, come, come into the light. ha

I checked out the SOTT archive. It is definitely a Thing to browse, that is when I'm not reading or group-chatting poetry (thank you for the Poetry Collective mention). In fact, the section that highlights LT groups and what they are up to is what I read first. It's fun to see what everyone is up to.

Abagail, I'm so glad to see this topic. It gives me a chance to say that it's apparent the LT team is made up of authentic uber geeky book/reading/library/data lovers! My tribe ❤️

Keep up the good work!

P.S. That's a mighty lotta SOTT over there. It's great that you guys preserve your history. Is it searchable?

I always appreciate the author interview, even if I don't click through to read the whole thing. (Depends on the topic and my energy)

When I wasn't visiting Talk multiple times a day, I really appreciated the Site News, if I had missed any of it. I liked that site changes or tweaks were never a mystery for long, and could check past SOTT in my inbox for older updates.