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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

5/ The post also covers the lag between release and peak interest, what a TV adaptation does for a three-year-old novel, and why James Patterson has a schedule, but is an all-season monster.

Elin Hilderbrand's library interest, 2022–2026. Her June novels bring big summer spikes. The 2026 bump has no new book behind it; it came from the TV adaptation of The Five-Star Weekend.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

4/ Release dates have also been creeping earlier, much as Hollywood pushed the summer movie into late spring.

Emily Henry's library interest, 2022–2026. There's a big spike with each new book, and each comes a bit earlier in the spring.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

3/ Summer belongs to blockbuster romances and thrillers, but the peaks are staggered. Romance publishes April–June and peaks in May–June. Thrillers publish June–August and peak in July–August. It's bimodal! Something about new hope and the impending death of summer ease?

Romance and thriller interest on one chart. Both peak every summer, but romance gets there first and thrillers follow a month or two later.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

2/ I don't read any differently on vacation, but publishers have strong seasonal lanes, and some authors publish in the same week every year. Carley Fortune has published five novels since 2022, all between May 2 and May 10, and each more popular than the last.

Carley Fortune's library interest, 2022–2026. Each May novel brings a spike, and each spike is bigger than the last.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1/ New post: I ran the stats on "beach reads" across thousands of libraries for Syndetics Unbound from @clarivate.com, tracking sixteen summer authors. proquest.syndetics.com/news/2026/10...

Library interest in 16 summer authors, 2022–2026. It spikes every summer, in five regular humps.

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

I recently got on Match again—my picture, complete with marriage disclaimer is below. I heard they were bad. THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE—so much worse than I could have imagined, and I feel so sorry for everyone on them! The whole sordid experience made me want to do Chapter One all the more.

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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 · 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

This photo at OOB kills me. So young. What an obscene tragedy.

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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 · 07/07/2026

This was the least surprising story ever, so I'm not sure I get to be right forever, but, hey, this Mainer saw it.

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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 · 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 · 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

Got it again—and now, having lingered over it to take a screen shot, will probably get it a million times. Halp!

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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

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

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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

Here it is by popularity. Not sure this is easier, but you may know more of them.

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

LibraryThing members have not yet sorted Satisfying Sasquatch into Bill Nichols (2), along with "Rachel's New Master," "Amanda Joins the Family," etc., but at least it's not part of Bill Nichol's (1).

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

Also, can we talk about this cover? I know people complain about AI in book covers, and with good reason. I doubt we'll ever see a sasquatch like this again.

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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 · 28/03/2026

Portland, Maine now has a MAGAZINE SHOP—a shop that sells just magazines. That's crazy, maybe? But it's got a great selection, and I wish them luck. If you come to town, check Bold Magazine Shop, 604 Congress, roughly in between The Green Hand Bookshop and Longfellow books.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Syndetics Unbound takes no position on whether the movie was good, but…

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Someone on Facebook asked about Mortal Engines, so I posted it. hat's Teaser, Trailer, NYCC Trailer, Movie. The movie was… not good, so no sequel. Anyone want to know about any other adaptations?

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

At some point Christians need to choose—this or the sadistic cancer that so many now embrace.

1 Corinthians 13-14

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Working on a blog post about how adaptations drive library patron interest. Check out these charts of the Hail Mary Project and Bridgerton.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Impossible task, but here is my "Five Books That Define You" list www.librarything.com/list/47509/t...

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The decline of Facebook, as seen in the percent of @LibraryThing members who sign up using Facebook button—15.6% to 1%, 2014–2025.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

5/ The website personal recommendations is one of the few places we've gone with identically-sized images, with cropping. The regularity of the display reduces cognitive load, when you're probably just skimming. But it's murder on picture books.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Across LibraryThing the median ratio is 0.67, the mean is 0.71. * That median is trade paperbacks and trade hardcovers. * Mass market paperbacks come in at around 0.62. * Audiobook images are nearly all square now, to accommodate CDs, even now that the CDs are gone.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

3/ The advantage of fixed height or hybrid is that most books are "book shaped." So it's really about how you deal with "Michelin-Guide tall" and "picture-book wide."

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

1/ When displaying a row of covers, you have a basic choice, arising for the fact the covers come in different aspect ratios: 1. Crop to a "book" size 2. Fixed width 3. Fixed height 4. Adopt a hybrid approach, with a fixed height or width unless the w-h ratio is too high, then do 1, 2 or 3

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I’ve always been a one-monitor person—one big display, laptop as a occasional sidecar. Working on an iOS app—with two codebases and AI coding tools—is the first time I’ve wanted two full-size monitors.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Sensational: A newly-discovered early 8c Christian universal chronicle from St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai. Arabic translation of a Syriac original, from Creation to 634. Complete text. Looks like a new, partially independent source for Arab conquest, etc.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

First look: LIbraryThing genres on the app. Take a look; question in the next tweet.

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

First look: LibraryThing App "Your Books" pages.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

LibraryThing app first look: Melvil Decimal System

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Icons from the Kijkwijzer DVD rating system, used in Belgium and the Netherlands. You've got to love the "sex" one.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

LibraryThing has a much-loved UI for Dewey Decimals, where you drill down the numbers row by row. This isn't going to work on mobile. Has anyone seen a good UI for DDC on mobile?

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The libraries (blue) and bookstore (green) of Greenland from @librarything.com's local feature.

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