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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/tivasyk/statuses/112966404732551872">івась тарасик (tivasyk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 04:36:01 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tivasyk" title="tivasyk@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/134855-48-20230607111311.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="івась тарасик" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">івась тарасик</a><div><a href="https://floss.social/@jgoerzen/112966389286103763" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://floss.social/@jgoerzen">@jgoerzen</a> never heard of librarything; is it an online service letting you build your own lists? i was hoping for smth local with a base that could be sync'ed between myvown machines, but capable of pulling book info from… places.</p><p>anyways, will research it later today. thank you!</p><p>update. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibraryThing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibraryThing</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3586140#notice-7036054">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-08-30T04:36:01+09:00" title="Friday, 30-Aug-2024 04:36:01 JST">about 9 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tivasyk/112966404732551872" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tivasyk/112966404732551872">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibraryThing">LibraryThing</a></h5><div></div></header><div>LibraryThing is a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing book catalogs and various types of book metadata. It is used by authors, individuals, libraries, and publishers.
Based in Portland, Maine, LibraryThing was developed by Tim Spalding and went live on August 29, 2005, on a freemium subscriber business model, because "it was important to have customers, not an 'audience' we sell to advertisers."  They focused instead on making a series of products for academic libraries.  Motivated by the cataloguing opportunities and financial challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the service went "free to all" on March 8, 2020, while maintaining a promise never to use advertising on registered users. As of February 2021, it has 2,600,000 users and more than 155 million books catalogued, drawing data from Amazon and from thousands of libraries that use the Z39.50 cataloguing protocol.Features
The primary feature of LibraryThing (LT) is the cataloging of books, movies, music and other media by importing data from libraries through Z39.50 connections and from six Amazon.com stores. Library...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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івась тарасик (tivasyk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 04:36:01 JSTівась тарасик
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@jgoerzen never heard of librarything; is it an online service letting you build your own lists? i was hoping for smth local with a base that could be sync'ed between myvown machines, but capable of pulling book info from… places.
anyways, will research it later today. thank you!
update. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibraryThing
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  LibraryThing is a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing book catalogs and various types of book metadata. It is used by authors, individuals, libraries, and publishers. Based in Portland, Maine, LibraryThing was developed by Tim Spalding and went live on August 29, 2005, on a freemium subscriber business model, because "it was important to have customers, not an 'audience' we sell to advertisers." They focused instead on making a series of products for academic libraries. Motivated by the cataloguing opportunities and financial challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the service went "free to all" on March 8, 2020, while maintaining a promise never to use advertising on registered users. As of February 2021, it has 2,600,000 users and more than 155 million books catalogued, drawing data from Amazon and from thousands of libraries that use the Z39.50 cataloguing protocol. Features The primary feature of LibraryThing (LT) is the cataloging of books, movies, music and other media by importing data from libraries through Z39.50 connections and from six Amazon.com stores. Library...

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