My Goodness this Librarything thing is fun! - I could make lists until the cows come home as it is.
My LT page: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Digby1
It says in the TQL Learning page "it also connects you to other people who have similar libraries and reading tastes." - really? How? I couldn't see anything on the LT page to indicate how to do that either.
Lindsey from librarything.com emailed me some instructions re above: go to my Profile page & click on 'Members with Digby1's books' (on the left) - but the site says 'this feature switched off 13/10'
She also said to try going to a favourite author's Author Pages and see who else has favourited that author - but how do I go to the Author Pages?
Also - how do you add tags to your book selections? - Do they have to be added before you search for the book?
At one point I followed a link saying something like ' connect this to your Blog' then it gave me some HTML code to paste into my Blog which I tried to do by pasting the code into the Source code behind this Blog - but nothing happened.
Following Lorraine's tips I've gone via 'LT Search' to 'instal widget' then copied the widget HTML and pasted it directly into this post below (not into my HTML as the site instructed)
but why isn't it here now that I've come back to edit the post?
Robyn's help email ran as follows: "from within my LT page I clicked on the Tools tab, then on "make a standard blog widget" then I copied the HTML code from the right window to a new post on my blog making sure I was in edit HTML mode not in Compose mode, and then publish post" --- well I went to my LT page clicked on Tools and found no link to blog widgets, only 'mail & news', 'Pop-up blocker etc -- I also wonder what she meant by 'right window' -- no idea what the bit about modes was all about.
I've added the LT widget but when I selected it it suddenly became 'unselected' so I selected it again only to find I'd pasted it into this blog twice. When I came back to edit the post to delete the duplicated LT widget, it's not even visible - only when I view the post!
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Hello,
I saw your post about LibraryThing while I was doing a Google Blog Search. Thanks for the kind words - and also, in answer to your question, LT connects you to other users with similar libraries on your Profile page: one of the blue boxes on the right with titles and statistics includes Members with Digby1's books. You can also see go to one of your favorite author's Author Pages and see who else has favorite'd that author.
Too much information? Maybe. Have an excellent day, and if you ever have questions about your account, feel free to email me.
Lindsey, Assistant Librarian at LT
I don't know why you and Tanya can't get the LibraryThing code to work on your blog. I just tried it again and it worked on my blog (see http://robynslearning2.blogspot.com/). All I did was from within my LibraryThing page, I clicked on the Tools tab, then on "Make a standard blog widget", then I copied the HTML code from the right window to a new post on my blog (making sure I was in Edit HTML mode, not Compose mode), and then Publish Post. (Note, the Preview window doesn't show the widget properly, but once you post it it seems ok.)
If it still doesn't work for you, I would suggest leaving for a week or so and try again then. They do appear to be having some "database" problems at the moment.
Hope this helps.
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