I got this email from a cousin of mine and I really wanted to share it with you all and see what you’ve experienced.
Just got back from the library choosing a couple of “relaxing” books. As I browsed, I had these thoughts and then decided I’d send them to the family librarian . [...]

If you missed my many other announcements, I just wanted to let you know that Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data has arrived on my doorstep and is probably heading out to those of you who pre-ordered a copy soon!! If you write a review, let me know so I can [...]

The first chapter of The Art of Community by Jono Bacon has been released for early review. It’s a pretty interesting chapter and I may just have to add the full book to my wishlist.

Normally I don’t advertise products I’m emailed about – but I have to write about this nifty gadget because I could have sooooo used it last night when I was doing my research. The BookMarker is a pen, postit holder, bookmark and book strap!!
Never lose your place again, and never lose your [...]

I contributed to an upcoming book on writing for librarians entitled Writing and Publishing: The Librarian’s Handbook and that book was just featured in American Libraries – complete with a blurb from me (with one great big typo – how did I miss that???) Check it out:

Librarians as Writers (contributor)
American Libraries, vol. 40, iss. [...]

A lot of librarians have been posting a link to this article on the Espresso Book Machine launch in London.
It’s not elegant and it’s not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing [...]

I just learned about a new service – BookSwim – that is pretty much Netflix for books (although a bit more expensive to use).
BookSwim is the first online book rental library service lending you paperbacks, hardcovers and now college textbooks Netflix®-style directly to your house, without the need to purchase!
I guess I can see how [...]

Today I published my Library Mashups book fan page on Facebook. Check it out and become a fan I will keep everyone posted on when the book will be published via that page and the official book website.

I have been waiting for this for way too long The Kindle 2 is released and ready to be added to my wishlist.

Now I just have to find a way to purchase one. Check out Amazon.com to see the announcement and pictures and such.

I wrote about the New York Times APIs a while ago, but today I found a new mashup using Amazon and the NY Times Bestseller Lists – Reading Radar.
Last week we reported on the release of another API by The New York Times: the Times Bestseller’s API. Well it didn’t take long for the [...]

If you’re still looking for the perfect gift for the book lover in your life (and you have $80) this might be an options for you.
Even with a heavy duty air purifier and regular vacuuming around the apartment, our book collection can be a pain to clean, gathering dust like a Katamari dustball. The books [...]

As someone who worked as a cataloger for special collections – and cataloged the entire library of an important figure in the college’s history – this new project from LibraryThing sounds pretty darn awesome!!
Have you ever wondered what books Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had in their personal libraries? How about 18th-century Virginia [...]

Somehow I missed this last year, but LibraryThing has announced its second annual SantaThing event!.
SantaThing is Secret Santa for LibraryThing members.
The idea is simple. Pay $25. You play Santa to a random LibraryThing member, and find them up $20 worth of books, based on their library or a short description. Someone else does the same [...]

Where is Your Username registered
‡biblios.net collaborative sharing and editing of recordsLibLime is developing a new open platform for sharing bibliographic records as part of its forthcoming ‡biblios.net project (now in beta at http://beta.biblios.net). As part of this platform, LibLime is making available bibliographic records via several protocols: z39.50 and SRU for starters, eventually via a [...]

Now this is the kind of sale that I love!! Stock up on your library related titles at Information Today during their holiday sale:
40% Off All In-Stock Books When You Order Online!
The discount is good on an unlimited number of orders placed during the sale period—and with more than 150 titles available on our [...]

A great new site for library techies (and other librarians too) has launched!! This from the press release:
The Tech Static, a new collection development resource for technology titles, published its inaugural issue today.
The need for such a resource became apparent when October 15 marked the last installment of Library Journal’s “Computer Media” review column, [...]

I mentioned that I was waiting to hear more from Tim about the LibraryThing Reviews for your library catalog. Well, Tim has finally posted about it – and it’s even more awesome than I thought.
Tim compares the LibraryThing service to ChiliFresh and shows that LibraryThing is going to give you a far superior number [...]

I love LibraryThing (and the staff at LibraryThing). They come up with the best tools (aside from the tools from the LibLime developers hehe). Anyway, I just got a sneak peak of ‘Reviews at my Library’ from LibraryThing after reading a short post at the Thingology blog.
We’ll be at [...]

I have to start this review with a disclaimer. I have a plain old cell phone with no data plan That said – I’m thinking of trying to pay off my debt faster so that I can upgrade my phone and get a data plan because of this technology report by [...]

Wow! LibraryThing is full of awesome announcements lately!!
A few days ago, just before hitting thirty million books, we hit one million user-uploaded covers. So, we’ve decided to give them away—to libraries, to bookstores, to everyone.
Learn how to get the covers and integrate them into your websites, opacs, etc.
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Awesome news from Tim:
LibraryThing has hit 30,000,000 books cataloged! We also recently hit 1,000,000 user-uploaded covers and 500,000 pieces of Common Knowledge data.* Tags stand just shy of 39 million.
Thirty million—more specifically 30,011,748—was the number of books in the Library of Congress, the largest “real” library in the world.
Whenever I have some down time [...]

This is so awesome!!!
Introducing the LibraryThing Web Services API.
The API will eventually do many things.
For starters it includes all of the data in LibraryThing’s Common Knowledge project, our groundbreaking “fielded wiki” for interesting book information (see original blog post). It includes fields like series, important characters, important places, author dates, author burial places, agents, edits, [...]

First, if you haven’t visited Bookpool – you should! They have some awesome prices on techie books. Second, now is the best time to visit because open source books from OSCON are on sale.
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It’s that time of year again:
Third Annual World eBook Fair: July 4th to August 4th
Just two years ago The First World eBook Fair came on the scene with about 1/3 million books, doubled to 2/3 million in 2008, and now over one million.
Created by contributions from 100+ eLibraries from around the world, here are the [...]

I know that this isn’t the point of this guest blog post by Nick Hornby – but it’s an amazing idea!!
Nick talks about why e-books and e-book readers are not going to get the kind of audience they want. He compares books to vinyl and e-books to CDs and e-book readers to mp3 players. [...]