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LibraryThing Apps and Sites
LibraryThing Mobile Apps
LibraryThing has a mobile app for iPhone (iOS) and Android users!
TinyCat
Turn your LibraryThing library into a real, online catalog for your friends and patrons! Inexpensive for schools, churches, and other small collections. Free for personal use.
Talpa Search
Talpa Search is a magical book and library search, powered by new technologies and trusted data.
Litsy
Litsy is sort of like Instagram for booklovers.
LibraryThing took over running Litsy in 2018.
Useful and Fun
Import/Export
LibraryThing can import and export in various formats, including Excel, text and library (MARC) records.
LibraryThing Early Reviewers
Every month LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program gives away thousands of new and forthcoming books from publishers and authors who want honest reviews.
LibraryThing Widget
Show off your collection on your blog, home page or any other webpage.
LibraryThing Store
LibraryThing offers barcode scanners, barcode labels, book stamps, t-shirts and more.
MDS Classification
The Melvil Decimal System (MDS) is named after Melvil Dewey, whose Dewey Decimal System is used by libraries around the world.
Connect with Other Apps
Share your books, reviews, ratings, and more to your Facebook timeline from your News Feed.
Like LibraryThing on Facebook
Share your books, reviews, ratings, or other LibraryThing activities on Twitter from your News Feed.
Follow LibraryThing on Twitter
Swap Sites
LibraryThing integrates with over a dozen "swap sites," websites where people swap books by mail. You can see what books are available within LibraryThing.
Games
TriviaThing
The game that tests your book knowledge.
Trivia questions generated from LibraryThing data! See if you can become a Master.
CoverGuess
CoverGuess is a cover game. We give you covers and you describe them in words. If you guess the same things as other players, you get points.
Treasure Hunts
LibraryThing periodically posts "Treasure Hunts," in which members read clues (in poem form) and try to find pages on the site.
Community Projects
WikiThing
WikiThing is LibraryThing's wiki, a storehouse of help, fun and LibraryThing culture.
Legacy Libraries
Legacy Libraries are the libraries of historical people, entered into LibraryThing by dedicated members. Libraries include Marilyn Monroe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Graves, Thomas Jefferson and Frederick Douglass.
State of the Thing
"State of the Thing" is LibraryThing's newsletter. It goes out to some 1,236,438 book lovers around the world.
Helpers
LibraryThing members can improve their own data, help each other and improve the quality of the information on LibraryThing.
Flash Mob Cataloging
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 LibraryThing catalog.
Book Pile Contests
LibraryThing members have periodically engaged in general or themed book photography.
What Else?
Other LibraryThing Widgets
- LibraryThing Search Widget
- Search your library from any web page.
- Graphical widget
- Makes an image that can be posted on sites that don't allow rich content.
- Email signature line
- For email and other forums.
- Chicklets
- Little branded boxes for blogs.
Syndetics Unbound
Syndetics Unbound is a joint product by LibraryThing and ProQuest to enrich library catalogs with information and discovery.