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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Crazy thing related to Chapter One. I just realized we announced my "dating app for book lovers" on the 25th anniversary of when I first talked to my future wife, Lisa Carey, on Match. If you do the math on that one, yes, we first talked a day (or two) before September 11.

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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 10/09/2026

LibraryThing is launching Chapter One (@chapteronedating.bsky.social), a new dating app for book lovers! chapteronedating.com

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

When the revolution comes, its first victims will be the people who put unnamed tracks on short-story audiobooks.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Help @librarything.com hire a Boston book lover! blog.librarything.com/2026/08/bost...

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Libraries that use self-checkout stations will be forced to give patrons an extra book.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hard truth: Crappy AI-written books wouldn't be getting book deals if people had taste to begin with.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

People are getting their brains cooked by AI—dividing into idiotic AI boosters and Salem-Witchcraft-trial AI haters—because social media cooked their brains first.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's important to oppose conspiracy thinking wherever it is. Vaccines aren't a conspiracy. Trump lost in 2020. And while it's understandable to oppose AI and AI book scanning, the AI companies aren't destructively scanning books as part of a master plan to destroy all the world's physical books.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The past is a foreign country www.librarything.com/work/709369/...

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's happening! Bookish people, swing by @librarything.com this Friday 12-2pm Eastern. It'll feel like 1997 all over again.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Visited the intersection in Biddeford where Joan Sebastian Guerrero was shot by ICE yesterday. There was a continual stream of Mainers bringing votives candle and flowers. The asphalt where his body lay, bleeding out, was still distinctly red.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Typeface Monday: What do you think of Palatino?

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

To keep the same basic healthcare plan, @librarything.com needs to spend 21% more next year. We’re 10 people and health insurance is 2-4 employee we aren’t hiring. Yeah, gas is bad, but this stuff is absolutely crushing for a small business.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

An LC librarian I met at ALA had business cards printed on the back side of actual, discarded catalog cards. Where can I get a gross of them myself, so I can slavishly imitate him?

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The answer is clear: Gambling Books, a new line of "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, but instead of making decisions about what page to go to, you roll dice to find out. The "Lottery" book would have a lot of "You have lost." pages.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Democrats will lose the Senate because the left caught Trumpism—he "wasn't perfect" but he was “our champion” who “fights"! Competence and character were boring and ignored. Every scandal made him stronger. "The media" was out to get him! You got your man—and now he’s going to lose it all.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today is the 150th anniversary of Portland, Maine's Great Fire of 1866—lit by a firecracker, the biggest US city fire before Chicago! portlandfiretours.com/2025/02/16/t...

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My new Maine dating website: PlentyofLobsters 🦞

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

There's a real need for new library tech. One might even say there's a vacuum.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The most interesting tech I saw at ALA Chicago was an industrial-strength Roomba-like vacuum robot. I could totally see them running around libraries every night. That a vacuum was the most interesting technology, however, tells you something about the stagnation of library technology.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Proposal for a Fiction Decimal System—"DDC for fiction," "BISAC as a shelf order." Genres make people mad, so let the 10-minute hate begin! www.librarything.com/topic/385147

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

To save space, monthly LibraryThing work-popularity numbers were stored by "LibraryThing month," with month 0 being the month we started—one byte. LibraryThing has now hit the 256-month problem—we need two bytes!

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Like many sites, LibraryThing has a pronoun field for members. I do not respect these pronouns: Cryptocurrency App Development Company Buy Guest Posts include article, SEO, Digital PR, Link Building Hyderabad Escort Model freecashappmoneynoverification

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I recently finished Isaacson's "Steve Jobs." One peculiarity: There's endless stories of jobs obsessing over the aesthetics of objects—cases, bevels, finishes, etc. There's even the sad story of a half-conscious Jobs ripping off his oxygen mask and demanding to be shown five more masks,

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

LibraryThing interviewed the owner, Stacy, for our State of the Thing newsletter, for whom magazines are "tangible, intentional, and full of possibility. You choose them; they don’t choose you. That creates a different kind of relationship than what we experience on our phones."

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It's 4:14 in the morning and in the last 14 minutes since the start of the hour, 14 LibaryThing members have made THIRTEEN PAGES of "helper" edits to works, authors, etc. All day long people are making the site better. It's inspiring, gorgeous. It makes me get up in the morning.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Everyone write stories about nice AI. Skynet nukes a killer asteroid! HAL draws up a warm bath!

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I'm packing for a trip to Ireland, and of course that means bringing a little library. Fortunately, many are mass-market paperbacks—small, light and not skimping on pages. The whole format is now being phased out. What a pity that will be!

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Boss Fight Books | Series | LibraryThing

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

These Strange New Minds by @summerfieldlab.bsky.social is the LLM book I've been waiting for, and I can't believe I missed it. It's a little dated now (first released summer 2024), but still excellent. Basically, it's a wide-ranging, curious book about LLMs,

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Here's a crappy AI animation of a cat walking and then going to sleep. Where would I go if I wanted a similar—but better—NON-AI animation of the same? (And how much do such things cost?)

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

They say the best way learn a language is from a girlfriend or boyfriend. I've never had that—I mostly studied dead languages! I just got an ad for an app that seems to be trying to meld "AI girlfriend" and "language learning." What a profoundly weird world we live in.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Birthplaces of authors on LibraryThing, linear and log. A remarkable graph. You'd expect authors to move to New York, the center of publishing, but it turns out just being born there is a huge help.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Music sucks today because there's no necessary connection between being good at music and being young, gorgeous and thin. Both are rare and the intersection is tiny. Believe it or not, it didn't used to be this way.

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old man yells at cloud is written on a newspaper

ALT: old man yells at cloud is written on a newspaper

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Okay, WITHOUT GOOGLING, can you guess the states based on their nine most popular authors?

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Who has written a synthetic account of the cycle of sacred-languages? Vernacular spreads a message → vernacular becomes sacred → language ossifies → language grows obscure → gets translated → translation becomes sacred → [repeat]

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Syracuse—Syracuse!—axes their Classics degree. What ignorant times we live in. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...

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Syracuse Drops 84 Majors Including Classics, Ceramics and Italian

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I asked ChatGPT who invented the fielded wiki and it said… me. This is incorrect and irritating. I was inspired by the late Aaron Swartz's Infogami. I'm still not sure if he invented the idea, or was its first implementor; he may have been. Anyone got a better answer?

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Top authors in two groups that share an important thing. What are the two groups?

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

1/2 Maine Dems are up in arms over Mills vetoing the anti-data center bill. I run a Maine tech company. Only two of ten employees are in Maine, because our tech sector is weak and I can't find local people. (You can get a CS degree here, but then you need to leave.)

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I don't support this, but it's directionally right.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Mine is pachycephalosaurus—for both the dinosaur and the name. But I have just been alerted that there is a *small* thick-headed lizard species—namely micropachycephalosaurus!

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

1/3 A lot of the library world has turned decisively against AI—hard. It's not measured, thoughtful engagement with problems and challenges, which are certainly many, varied and important to discuss, but a rigid, totalizing ideological certainty that AI is immoral,

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I'm trying to get Claude Code to code in a more "LibraryThing" style, so I had it do an extensive review of the current style, honed over 20 years. This is exactly right, and (IMHO) good advice for every coder.

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TinyCat by LibraryThing @librarycat.org · 14/04/2026

New feature alert! TinyCat libraries can now enable a Restrict Catalog Access mode. If enabled, all visitors need to enter their credentials to view or search your catalog. #BookSky #libraries #💙📚

An image of a ship, with the text: "The Library of New England Folklore / This library requires an account to view the catalog. / Patron Barcode/ID or Username / Sign In"

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I found it—the best author-disambiguation fail! Bill Nichols, author of the field-defining "Introduction to Documentary," now in its fourth edition, also wrote, according to Amazon, "Satisfying Sasquatch."

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"The average age someone stops being seen as desirable to hire is 55." Just turned 55 <gulp>

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