{"id":2454,"date":"2023-08-31T11:03:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T15:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2023-08-31T11:03:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T15:03:34","slug":"happy-birthday-lt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2454","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, LT!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LibraryThing<\/a> appeared on the World Wide Web on August 29, 2005. They are celebrating their 18th birthday with a fun scavenger hunt<\/a> that encourages you to explore the site. If you are a reader and book lover, it’s worth creating an account to play! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My own 18th anniversary is coming soon. I joined the site on October 13, 2005. According to LT practice, I am permitted to buy one book for each year and one to grow on. I better get started on my wishlist. LT came around at just the right moment when I was considering how to catalog my rapidly growing book collection. I had been tinkering with an Access database but it meant entering the books manually. LT solved that with a web-based search along with the offer of community of readers. I have written about my involvement in LT in the past including my participation in their 75 Books a Year group<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2005, I only entered one book: Memoirs of a Geisha <\/a>by Arthur Golden. I even wrote a short review. The next year I entered a few more and then began keeping my completed reading regularly in 2007. I have not yet catalogued my unread books but may devote some time this winter to working on it. LT sells a handy dandy scanner called the CueCat. They also offer a library management software program called TinyCat<\/a>. It has a free version for individual users and low cost versions for small institutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am grateful to creator Tim Spalding and the whole LT team<\/a> for developing this readers’ retreat, demonstrating how to harness the Web for good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Birthday, LibraryThing! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LibraryThing appeared on the World Wide Web on August 29, 2005. They are celebrating their 18th birthday with a fun scavenger hunt that encourages you to explore the site. If you are a reader and book lover, it’s worth creating an account to play! My own 18th anniversary is coming soon. I joined the site … Continue reading Happy Birthday, LT!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[74,54],"tags":[454],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reading","tag-librarything"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-DA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}