Libib vs LibraryThing
May 19, 2026 | Author: Maria Lin
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Cloud cataloging service that allows you to store books, board games, movies, music and video games in a single library (doesn't let to upload and store files). It's suitable for libraries, schools, organizations, and home personal catalogs. It allows you to create mixed collections, add notes, and share your collections. It offers mobile apps with automatic synchronization and an ISBN/UPC barcode scanner. Libraries can use features such as book lending, reader management, custom fields, barcode management, an online library website, report generation, SSO integration (Google, Classlink, Clever, Microsoft), and invoicing.
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LibraryThing is free cataloging and social networking site for book lovers. LibraryThing allows to create online catalog of books and access it from anywhere - even on your mobile phone. You can upload own book collections and parse metadata from Amazon, track your reading progress, rate and review books. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next. You can check out other peoples' libraries, see whose library is most similar to yours, swap reading suggestions, and more. You can also turn your library into a real online catalog for visitors. Available in over 50 languages.
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Libib vs LibraryThing in our news:
2016. LibraryThing allows to export your home library to excel
Online library management tool LibraryThing has added book export to Excel (that complements traditional CSV and TSV export options). It's a minimalist and simple operation that allows you to quickly get a list of books for editing, publishing or sending to friends. The developers have made the headings bold, changed the width of some columns and defined some column formats as text and some as numbers, but otherwise left the data as is. They say they've tested this new feature well, but there are so many versions of Excel that there may be formatting issues.
2009. LibraryThing faces Amazon incursion
Amazon is requiring online book management software LibraryThing to remove links to other booksellers (IndieBound and Barnes and Noble...) on work pages and to put the primary page link to Amazon alone. Links to other booksellers are prohibited. Everyone at LibraryThing disagrees with this decision. LibraryThing is not a social cataloging and social networking site for Amazon customers but for book lovers. So now LibraryThing is creating a new “Get it Now” page, with links to other booksellers, especially local bookstores and libraries and a host of new features. It will cut back its primary-page links to Amazon alone and give people better secondary pages. The page will be edition-aware and draw on feeds or live data (so the links work). Many members have wanted live pricing data for the books they already own and these features can be used for that purpose too.
