Just a reminder to all of our members participating in SantaThing: You have approximately one day left to pick out your Santee's books. Picking closes tomorrow, December 3rd, at 12pm EST, so be sure to make your selections right away!
https://www.litsy.com/web/santathing_list
Matches have been made, and Secret Santas and Santees have been chosen! If you signed up for SantaThing for Litsy, please take a look to see with whom you've been paired. If you didn't sign up, join us for the conversation anyway.
https://www.litsy.com/web/santathing_list
You are also welcome to join the conversation over on LibraryThing, with your fellow SantaThing participants there.
https://www.librarything.com/topic/337121
SantaThing has closed for the season, and we are hard at work matching people up. In the meantime, six lucky Littens have been selected to win a Litsy mug! The winners are: @Alfrazier21, @Soubhiville, @IheartYA, @Julie548, @SeaToSkyes, @iampaula. Congratulations! You can expect your mugs to arrive sometime in the next month, postal service willing...
Don't miss out! Sign up for SantaThing by tomorrow, November 29th, at 12 noon EST, and give the gift of bookish holiday cheer to one of your fellow Littens, while receiving some of your own!
https://www.litsy.com/web/santathing
SantaThing is “Secret Santa“ for book lovers, and sign-ups are open until Monday, November 29th, at 12pm EST. Come and join, and spread the bookish holiday cheer!
https://www.litsy.com/web/santathing
Attention Littens! Sign up now for SantaThing—our bookish Secret Santa—and win a chance at a prize! Every member who participates in SantaThing for Litsy will receive both a LibraryThing and a Litsy sticker, while six lucky winners will be chosen by lottery to receive our Litsy mug!
https://www.litsy.com/web/santathing
Sign up for SantaThing—Secret Santa for book lovers—and support indie booksellers like Longfellow Books (Portland, ME), Book People (Austin, TX), Powell's Books (Portland, OR), Readings (Melbourne, AUS), Time Out Bookstore (Auckland, NZ), and Kennys Bookshop (Galway, IRE)!
https://www.litsy.com/web/santathing
We're very pleased to announce the addition of an indie bookstore in the EU, for our SantaThing participants who want that option! Kenny's Bookshop in Ireland is a retailer with a wealth of online experience, and we're thrilled to be partnering with them for the first time! https://www.kennys.ie/
https://www.litsy.com/web/santathing
SantaThing returns to Litsy! After a hiatus last year, our “Secret Santa“ for book-loving Littens has returned! Come sign up, and spread the holiday cheer.
https://www.litsy.com/web/santathing
We're looking for an employee to handle social media for LibraryThing and Litsy and other projects. Send this to all your bookish friends? https://blog.librarything.com/main/2020/10/project-specialist/
Litsy has always been free, but we've now made LibraryThing, our sister site, free as well. So many of us are cooped up at home during this crisis. And people are worried about money. So we're making LibraryThing free. Enjoy!
Congrats to our first 15 SantaThing 2019 signups on @Litsy! Each tagged Litten will receive a free Litsy mug as their prize.
Our winners: @ShookBelf, @Grrlbrarian, @LMJenkins, @Booksnchill, @Kangaj1, @Meghan1, @Lynnsoprano, @sblbooks, @alisonrose, @Littlewolf1, @jenniferw88, @LittleBug, @julesG, @Deardaze, and @BethM.
Winners please email us at litsy@librarything.com with your username and your mailing address to claim your free mug. Happy 2020!
A quick reminder for SantaThing participants who haven't picked yet: SantaThing closes 12pm on Monday!
If you're having trouble coming up with gift ideas, post a comment here with the link/id and I'm sure others will flock to help!
In case you're interested, the LibraryThing/Litsy staff posted their 2019 top-five lists. https://blog.librarything.com/main/2019/12/top-five-books-of-2019/ What are yours?
If you signed up for SantaThing, be sure to go to https://www.litsy.com/web/santathing to find out who you're picking for!
Picking closes Monday at 12pm. Good luck and have fun.
If you need help, ask people in a comment here. People can leave comments on your Santees entry, and they can't see them until the gifts arrive.
Tagging all participants in the comments.
SanaThing, Litsy's official “Secret Santas“ program closes 12pm EST Monday. Sign up now or—perish the thought!—you may not get any books this year! https://www.litsy.com/web/santathing
Less than a week left to participate in SantaThing for Litsy, our “Secret Santas“ for Littens. See it here:
https://www.litsy.com/web/santathing
So far some 62 Littens are participating. SantaThing closes Monday.
We've just finished sending out the latest Litsy Newsletter, a “Holiday Newsletter.“ So check your inbox! #LitsyNewsletter
You can also read it online here: https://www.librarything.com/readmessage.php?msgID=08e4a6493e40793864f8a592788b7...
PS: If you don't want it, there's a link to stop it at the bottom. If you want it, but didn't get it, make sure your email address is in your Litsy settings.
Check it out at https://www.litsy.com/web/santathing .
SantaThing is a yearly event on @LibraryThing. We've now opened it up to Litsy members completely. Sign in is on Litsy, and you can choose to give to Litsy members.
Stay tuned! SantaThing for Litsy—a “Secret Santa“ gift-giving thing will launch on Monday. It will be integrated with LibraryThing, but you can choose to get and give to Littens only.
We couldn't choose just one! (But we couldn't choose them all—we don't have an infinite supply of mugs!) So we chose eight winners of the #DownPhoto contest. They are: @BookFreakOut, @LeahBergen, @jenniferw88, @Chelsea.Poole, @Soubhiville, @Simona, @mdm139, @Blaire .
Click on #DownPhoto to see these and the many other great photos.
Thank you to everyone who participated!
Winners: Read the comments to find out what you need to do.
Headed to #alaac19 this week? Don't miss out on the joint Librarything/Litsy meetup! Say hi to your fellow bibliophiles offline.
Saturday, June 22, 6:30pm
Busboys and Poets
450 K St NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
We've also got free exhibit hall-only passes you can grab here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/307549#6843202
Let us know here (or on LibraryThing: https://www.librarything.com/topic/307549) if you'll be attending.
See you there!
Here are the Trending Books for June 14, 2019! https://www.litsy.com/web/trendingbooks #trendingbooks
June is LGBTQ+ #Pride Month, and our sister site, #LibraryThing, is celebrating with a themed treasure hunt! Solve the clues to find rainbows (🌈) scattered around the site.
https://www.librarything.com/hunt_2019-06.php
If you're not already on LibraryThing, this is a fun way to get to know the site! Plus there are prizes to be had.
Need a hint? See the Talk discussion: https://www.librarything.com/topic/307936
We want the next version of the app to have a feature to see posts about your books, following books, etc.
For now, however, we did the next best thing. For now, we did the next best thing: @PostsAboutYourBooks, a special account for posts from books you‘ve stacked or posted about from across the Litsy community.
You can look at it at any time, or you can follow it, to have the posts mixed into your regular feed.
We've created a new account: @HappyLitsyversary that automatically tweets out congratulations to Littens who joined on that day!
Because we only have so much space, not everyone who joined Litsy on a day get mentioned. But if you use Litsy a fair amount, you've got a good chance! #litsyversary
Are any Litsy members going to the American Library Association meeting in Washington, DC—or just live in the DC area? We're looking to plan a meetup!
The meetup will probably be a joint Litsy/LibraryThing thing, at a bookstore cafe in the area, like Kramerbooks, or Politics and Prose are all on the table.
Post here, or on LibraryThing at http://www.librarything.com/topic/307549 .
We'll also have free day passes to give out soon.
We need your help with a Litsy “down“ image—a photo to show when Litsy is temporarily offline.
Rather than some stock photo (like above), we figured we'd ask the community for help. Just take a photo and tag it #downphoto. On June 18 we'll pick our favorite to use. We'll give out three Litsy mugs—one for the favorite and two randomly to anyone who gave it a shot.
Got an idea for a good photo? Leave it below.
Congratulations to Littens @ErinSueGreads, @onemused, @cmastfalk, @Books.Bottles.and.Babies and @Shakespearience! And thank you to EVERYONE who posted something on social media. You got the word out—thank you!
Winners, please send an email to litsy@librarything.com with your username and your address, and we'll send you out a Litsy mug.
This is a reminder that Litsy has a Facebook group, “Onward Litsy!“ where staff and members get together to talk about the future of Litsy, discuss potential features, review new features, take polls, etc.
It's open to all Littens, with over 1,000 members already!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/OnwardLitsy/
Trending books for May 21. https://www.litsy.com/web/trendingbooks #trendingbooks
We gotta get Litsy out there, and need your help! How about… a naked bribe!
Share a post or your Litsy profile to FB, IG, Twitter, Pinterest or Tumblr before May 28, and post the URL here.
On May 28, we‘ll choose five random Littens to get mugs!
When using Litsy on the web, you can now use the “j“ and “k“ keys to skip forward or backward a whole post. If scrolling drives you a little mad, this will help!
I made a video of it on Facebook https://tinyurl.com/yxsrpken
On Wednesday we added the ability to tag your posts to 48,000 bookstores and libraries from the English-speaking world.
Today we've added another 45,000 from the rest of the world. The map above puts them all on a map, including 8,000 in France alone!
Can't find your favorite bookstore? Go to LibraryThing Local and add it yourself https://www.librarything.com/local . (Free LibraryThing account needed.)
Book people love books, but they also love bookstores and libraries. So we added them to Litsy!
When you visit your favorite bookish places you can share your love, and take a selfie or a photo of your haul and tag the place, instead of a book.
The 48,000 venues were added by LibraryThing members. For now, you search for them just like books; we'll be separating them when we can. Litsy on the web adds venue photos and a “pin“ icon to every post.
By popular request, you can now mute hashtags you don't want to see. Tired of challenge posts? Tired of #CatsofLitsy? Mute them!
To mute tags, you have to do it on the Litsy website. What you do there will affect the app too. (We plan to include this in the app in the future, but app changes take longer to do.)
To mute tags, sign in and go to https://www.litsy.com/web/hashtags . The page is also found on Settings/Import, at the bottom.
The new Litsy on the web ( https://www.litsy.com ) has a “night“ mode, so you can browse Litsy at night and rest your eyes.
So far, the app doesn't have it, but we're looking at adding it in a future release.
Night mode on the web is available on your Settings/Import page. (Go to your profile and then click the little “cog“ icon.)
We recently improved Litsy sharing, on both app and web. It looks better, and people get more than a single static page—they get Litsy.
So go ahead and share Litsy with your friends and followers.
Web sharing goes to Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Tumblr. And there's a special image-download for posting to Instagram. Mobile sharing does whatever your smartphone does, which is probably a lot.
Now that we have Litsy on the web, it can be shared—and Litsy can grow! Feel free to spread this graphic around.
1. Share your Litsy posts on other social media. Sharing works great now.
2. Share your Litsy profile
3. Link to your Litsy profile in your bio on Goodreads, Instagram, Twitter.
4. Rate the Litsy app on iTunes or Google Play.
5. Tell a friend, or find your Facebook friends on Litsy now ( https://www.litsy.com/web/friends ).
@DannyHattan came up with this fantastic explainer for importing your Goodreads stacks into Litsy.
1. On your browser open Goodreads, in the “My Books” page and on the bottom left in tools there‘s a “Import/Export” tab,click it.
2. At the top hit “Export Library”, it will download into your computers Download folder.
3. Head to https://www.litsy.com/ , in your profile under “Setting/Import”, drag your file into the import section.
4. Job done.
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Litsy is now also available on the web!
Try it out at https://www.litsy.com
Litsy on the web has all the features of Litsy on iOS and Android, including posting and a great image editor. We've added a few features to entice you to check it out, such as a Goodreads import. If you use a larger screen, you will see new sections for trending books and hashtags.
Follow @Litsy for more details. And let us know what you think!
After a big push, we've reduced the number of Litsy books without covers by 74%. When our usual cover supplier, Ingram, doesn't have a cover, we are now drawing on covers from @LibraryThing and Syndetics Unbound from ProQuest. As of now, only 0.9% of books have no cover at all!
Trivia: These are the first 450 most popular Emojis on Litsy posts. (The first, ⭐, was used 90,805 times. The last, 🙌🏾, was used 124 times.)
This week is #NationalLibraryWeek in the US, and our sister site, #LibraryThing, is celebrating with a library-themed treasure hunt! Solve the clues to find library cards scattered around the site.
https://www.librarything.com/hunt_2019-04.php
If you're not already on LibraryThing, this is a fun way to get to know the site! Plus there are prizes to be had.
Need a hint? See the Talk discussion: https://www.librarything.com/topic/305699
We have added two settings under Preferences > Push Notification Settings. They tell us whether you are an EU citizen/resident, and if you want to receive the newsletter. (The newsletters have an opt-out link, which is separate from this system.) EU citizens must check the latter if they want the newsletter. [Note: Yes, this is for legal reasons. We'd rather not care; EU law requires us to care.]
Before, when you search or click a hashtag, Litsy showed posts tagged with that hashtag
Now, for some hashtags, like #cozies, #paranormal or #AmericanHistory you also get posts on books that ARE that tag—paranormal books, horror books, American history books.
• This is a GREAT way to find people who read the genres you love!
• Tags are drawn from LibraryThing's 140m user-added tags.
• No posts are removed; most Litsy hashtags are unaffected.
Litsy has long been plagued by multiple editions with trivial differences, like two versions of "Daisy Jones and The Six." Posts about them were kept apart.
Now, drawing on LibraryThing's extensive work-edition-media concept, we are combining all posts about the "work" together. We aren't changing search, because sometimes people care about choosing THEIR cover or edition.
I hate to do this, but Litsy has to shut down #bookishbrewswap.
In a better world, online beer swapping would be welcomed. I'd love to participate.
Unfortunately, it's legally risky. For that reason sites like Reddit have banned beer swapping (see https://www.reddit.com/r/beer/comments/8643kq/rbeertrade_has_been_banned/). If a huge, well-funded site like Reddit can't take a risk, we definitely can't.
(More in comments.)
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