Like about half the historioblogosphere,1 I’ve been playing with LibraryThing (where I am airminded, naturally enough). Well, more than playing - I’ve added just about all my books (even the dodgy pseudoscience and pseudohistory ones - I’m a paid-up skeptic, I swear!) and made a first pass at tagging them too - everything from history and science fiction to Mars and Cornwall.
I’ve also added the blog widget to my sidebar, so that it will display an ever-changing selection of books from my collection. At my request, LibraryThing’s creator Tim Spalding added the ability to show random books from a selected tag only (in this case, history). Thanks Tim!
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14 December 2005 at 6:01 pm
Tim
I like it! And thanks for the thanks. Keep suggestions coming.
Since we’re on the subject, I plan to popularize “contaguinity” for the degree of tag similarity between to taggers or tagged things. This is also its first Google occurence. Has a single blog entry ever had TWO Google firsts?
16 December 2005 at 10:52 pm
Brett Holman
Has a single blog entry ever had TWO Google firsts?
Well, I guess it will save time for some future OED researcher to have them both here!
18 December 2005 at 1:12 am
Allan Janus
I’ve been using Library Thing for a couple of weeks and noticed that we have similar tastes in books. Your entry led me here, and I’ll be a regular reader - great site!
19 December 2005 at 4:11 am
Brett Holman
Thanks Allan! I’m enjoying your site too. I can’t believe I’ve never heard of the Sepia Baron before - I’ll have to work him into my thesis somehow :D