**Posting Guidelines--Read Me First!**

1) Create a new topic.

• On the group homepage, https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/724/Name-that-Book, click Post a new topic.

•Enter a descriptive subject title that includes genre and a few key words. Words like “Help,” “Find this book,” and “Search” are not helpful.

   •This step is very important because:

    •Many members of this group only open topics they think they can help with, so your subject line is important for getting people who might know what your book is to read your post.

    •A descriptive subject line makes it easier for everyone to find your thread again.

•Subject lines become locked a few minutes after a thread is created and can only be edited by an admin. Do not start a new thread if you have made an error; go to https://www.librarything.com/topic/365114 to request a title change.

•Long subject lines are cut off, so it's wise to keep them short. Examples:

YA Ghost story
SciFi Boy lost in space
Mystery set in Iceland
Poem about a woman's garden
Children's series about circus children

•Looking for more than one book? Please start a new thread for each title you seek.

Please do not start duplicate threads.

2) Enter all the book details you remember in the body of the message.

•This may be information like:

Fiction or nonfiction
Plot
When you think it was written and when you read it (10 years ago, about 1985, AUC 2777, etc.)
Book's intended audience
The country or region in which you read it
Any titles you've already excluded
Anything else you remember about the title, author, illustrations, cover, characters, setting, binding, or size of book

•The more information you can provide about the plot, the better. If you'd like to hide potential spoilers, you can use spoiler tags: <spoiler>spoilery text here</spoiler>

•It's easier for members to read your message if you use standard spelling, capitalization, and punctuation, along with breaking longer sections into paragraphs. Also, please avoid initialism/acronyms.

•Please don't type in all caps. It is difficult for many people to read and is often construed as yelling.

•Looking for more than one book? Please start a new thread for each title you seek.

3) Check back for responses.

•Members will post their suggestions directly to your topic, so no e-mail addresses, please!

•LT does not send notifications when there is a response to a message, so title seekers will have to return to the thread to check for responses. New users may find it easier to bookmark the page in their browser.

•If you are having trouble locating your thread, you can search for your thread title via site search and then filter for Talk.


If you still can't find it, ask for help in the general help thread; please do not start a duplicate thread.

•Some books are found quickly, while others are found after time and discussion of similar books. If your query is not solved in a week or so, then please comment on your own topic in order to bump it back to the top of the list.

4) And please, we'd love to hear back from you on whether or not your book's been found!

•If your query is answered, please add a comment to your thread to let us know. This will help anyone else who's looking for the same book!

•Found it on another forum? We'd still love to know! We're always looking to expand the Looking elsewhere section of our wiki.

•An admin will add "Found" to the topic title of threads where books have been confirmed as identified.

5) Confused or have a question not covered here?

•Visit our general help thread https://www.librarything.com/topic/365114

•Visit the group's WikiThing page for more suggestions for finding your book and for a list of Frequently Sought Stories.