Library Thing

I like the concept of Library Thing as a community building tool. I could see it being used for book clubs and even for library patrons to recommend books to other patrons. That said, as a beta product it still has a way to go.

Was anyone else annoyed that they had to keep redoing an author search to add multiple books by the same author. I can't speak for anyone else but when I happen upon an author that a like I usually end up steaming through their entire works. What Library Thing needs there is radio buttons that allow you to go down and select multiple items from a list. I know it is a picky point but one that slowed things down quite a lot versus who quickly I could have added items.

The other part that needed work was the suggest a book section. It was clear that the search was not very deep. When I did a search for I, Robot I got more books by Asimov and books with the word robot in the title. I imagine this may improve as the tags are added by users but again it is something that will need to be fleshed out to really take Library Thing to the next level.