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What is Librarything.com? [[image:books.jpg width="121" height="169"]]
Librarything .com is a website that helps you organize up to 200 books in your personal, school,or business library for free. (If you would like to catalog more, you must upgrade to a paid account, which costs $10.00 for one year, or $25.00 for a lifetime.)

There are many different ways that you can organize your book catalog. You may want to use the Library of Congress and Dewey systems, or "tag" books by classifying them according to subject.

To set up your library, you enter the book title, author, or an ISBN. Any books that match the information you have provided will appear on the page. Choose a book from the from the list provided, and click on it to add it to your library. You may also rate and/or review the books that you add.

Some call Librarything.com the "Facebook of Libraries". You can add friends, and they become part of your connection list; allowing them to read your added books, reviews, and ratings. You can create or join a group for communicating in a "forum" format. There is the option to watch groups without joinng them.

Local bookstores, libraries, and book festivals can post upcoming events on Librarything.com. By providing a geographical location in your profile, will be notified of any events happening in your area.

Librarything.com also gives you the capability of linking your libary to a URL, using a widget for blogging, and making a search widget on your blog that allows people to search your library directly from it.

adding big numbers of books is time consuming || information private or public || If you want to add more than 200 books, which is easy to do if you are using this for a classroom library, you have to pay for membership. || that are in your library || The help/FAQ pages have information on them that can be difficult for computer novices (like me) to understand. || discuss books ||  || book events and venues ||  || their readers. ||  || computer or your mobile phone ||   || book collections ||  ||
 * **PROS** || **CONS** ||
 * Signing up is fast and easy || Unless you purchase a scanner for $15,
 * You can choose to make your profile
 * Site provides statistics on the on the series
 * It is easy to connect with others to read and
 * Site allows you to keep connected to local
 * Ability to blog and link a URL, and/or RSS feed ||  ||
 * Authors can create pages to connect with
 * Your catalog can be accessed from any
 * Provides an electronic means to organize your

This is a great website to use for a classroom library. It helps the teacher to easily categorize available classroom books by genre, or by the type of skill, strategy, or lesson they would be appropriate for. The students and their families have the ability to write and share book reviews. Teacher and students have opportunities for dialogue with authors.

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