New feature: Tag view / edit your tags
I’ve added a new feature—a “Tag view” for “Your library”, alongside the List and Shelf views. The Tag view replaces the Tags tab. Like the tab, it shows your tags alphabetically, or by frequency and...
View ArticleTop bar better, cuter
I made some changes to the look and functionality of the “top bar” in Your Library. They include new “pads,” new icons, yellow and baby-blue colors and new tag functionality. Non-English users will...
View ArticleChapters/Indigo adds LibraryThing tags to store kiosks
Update: INDEX // mb just took another look at the Indigo Kisoks, concluding “The addition of the Library Thing tags make a heap of difference.” Chapters/Indigo, the largest Canadian bookseller, just...
View Article“Tag Mirror” is back!
The much-loved, long-suspended “Tag Mirror” feature is back! Your tag mirror is like your tag clouds, except that instead of seeing what you’ve tagged your books it shows what other members have tagged...
View ArticleNew tag-based recommendations algorithm
Short version. I’ve just finished up a new algorithm for calculating book recommendations based on tags. You can see them on the “Recommendations” sub-page for every work page, under a special “Tags”...
View ArticleNew feature: Tag translation
As many of you know, LibraryThing is available in more than a dozen languages like German (LibraryThing.de), French (LibraryThing.fr), Dutch (LibraryThing.nl), Finnish (fi.LibraryThing.com), Polish...
View ArticleNew ways to slice books by tags
LibraryThing members have added more than 91 million tags. It’s a truly unique repository of how real readers think about their books—the only sizeable bookish “folksonomy.” To bring out more in that...
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