Cool photo-mosaic feature at LibraryThing!

nekokami · 06-20-2009, 09:34 PM

Hey, maybe everybody except me already knew about this, but I haven't been to my LibraryThing account in a while, so I just found out about it. LibraryThing can now construct a mosaic of images of all the books you have in your collection. The set of images is provided in a way that could make it easy to download the covers as icons and use them in other images or tools. What a great idea! I'd like to use them to create a browsable interface to my ebook library.

(You DO have a LibraryThing account, right? If not, go check out http://librarything.com -- it's extremely cool.

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(Note: this is just a sample of my mosaic, sorted by book title. I thought it showed an interesting distribution of my reading interests.)

astra · 06-21-2009, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

Hey, maybe everybody except me already knew about this, but I haven't been to my LibraryThing account in a while, so I just found out about it. LibraryThing can now construct a mosaic of images of all the books you have in your collection. The set of images is provided in a way that could make it easy to download the covers as icons and use them in other images or tools. What a great idea! I'd like to use them to create a browsable interface to my ebook library.

(You DO have a LibraryThing account, right? If not, go check out http://librarything.com -- it's extremely cool.

)

(Note: this is just a sample of my mosaic, sorted by book title. I thought it showed an interesting distribution of my reading interests.)

Is it the one where you can add only 200 books for free?

nekokami · 06-21-2009, 10:17 AM

Yes, there's a limit of 100 books per year on the free account, but a lifetime account is only $25, with unlimited books. They also have cheap barcode readers for sale at $15 to help scan in one's paper library. With the new multiple-collection feature, I think I may use LT to evaluate how close I am to replacing my full paper library with ebooks.

astra · 06-21-2009, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

Yes, there's a limit of 100 books per year on the free account, but a lifetime account is only $25, with unlimited books.

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What does it cost?

A free account allows you to catalog up to 200 books

I think that was the reason why I choose Goodreads over Librarything.

06-20-2009, 09:34 PM	#1
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Cool photo-mosaic feature at LibraryThing! Hey, maybe everybody except me already knew about this, but I haven't been to my LibraryThing account in a while, so I just found out about it. LibraryThing can now construct a mosaic of images of all the books you have in your collection. The set of images is provided in a way that could make it easy to download the covers as icons and use them in other images or tools. What a great idea! I'd like to use them to create a browsable interface to my ebook library. (You DO have a LibraryThing account, right? If not, go check out http://librarything.com -- it's extremely cool. ) (Note: this is just a sample of my mosaic, sorted by book title. I thought it showed an interesting distribution of my reading interests.) Attached Thumbnails

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06-21-2009, 10:17 AM	#3
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Yes, there's a limit of 100 books per year on the free account, but a lifetime account is only $25, with unlimited books. They also have cheap barcode readers for sale at $15 to help scan in one's paper library. With the new multiple-collection feature, I think I may use LT to evaluate how close I am to replacing my full paper library with ebooks.

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