Want to Catalog Your Books?

Have you ever wanted to catalog your personal library? Well you can with LibraryThing.com. What is LibraryThing? Here's an excerpt from their website:

LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. Because everyone catalogs together, you can also use LibraryThing to find people with similar libraries, get suggestions from people with your tastes and so forth.

How LibraryThing Works
LibraryThing is really two sites in one.

First, it is a powerful tool to catalog your personal library. Users add books to their catalog by entering titles, authors, or ISBN numbers. LibraryThing then searches the Library of Congress, all five national Amazon sites, and over 45 world libraries, and returns with precise book data. Users can then edit the books in their catalog, tag their books with their own subjects, and use the Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal systems to organize their collections.

LibraryThing is also an amazing social space, connecting people with similar libraries. It also makes book recommendations based on the collective intelligence of the other libraries.

Visiting this website is fun. They even have "unsuggestions" - telling people which books they wouldn't like to read based on their personal library! Click here to start your browsing.

Mother's Day Wildflowers

While walking in the woods in East Montpelier yesterday, my friend Wendy and I came across this wildflower. Using Kate Carter's book Wildflowers of Vermont we learned that it is dwarf ginseng. We didn't see this flower at all last week when we walked the same trails. It's great to see how the wildflowers and ferns change from week to week. Here are some other views in the woods.


My favorite color - spring green!


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Maidenhair fern fronds against Squirrel Corn leaves.