Dear winways,
Welcome to the April 2017 State of the Thing! This month, we're celebrating our favorite libraries and bookmarks, and we've added more "Tiny Tutorials" in our TinyCat video series. Read on for more.
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Libraries We Love
National Library Week (in the US) was April 9-15 this year, which got LT staff talking about our favorite libraries.
Many of us have fond memories of our first libraries from childhood, places we've studied and worked, and—unsurprisingly—when we visit other locales, we tend to make checking out the local libraries a priority! What are the libraries you love? See staff favorites on the blog, and come share your own on Talk!
Talk of the Thing
Bookmarks. What are your favorite bookmarks? Do you tend to grab whatever paper is close to hand, or do you keep a stash of bookmarks designed for the task of keeping tabs on your reading? Tell us all about the wonderful or odd things you use to mark your place on Talk.
What are you reading this week? On Facebook and Twitter, we tend to check in on our week of reading with #fridayreads posts. On Talk, we have the What Are You Reading Now? group! Chime in on this week's thread with your current read(s) here.
TinyCat News
Tiny Tutorials
Check out our new video series, Tiny Tutorials. Every other week, we'll highlight a different TinyCat feature, and walk you through how to use it in 30 seconds or less. This month, we've featured Advanced Search, and starred lists.
TinyCat Webinars We also offer free, weekly webinars giving an overview of TinyCat every Wednesday, at 1pm Eastern. Join us for our next one, next Wednesday, April 26th, at 1pm Eastern. Head over to this link at that time, and look for the TinyCat Webinar.
If Wednesday at 1pm doesn't work for you, let us know—we'll be happy to schedule a session for you.
TinyCat is the online catalog for small libraries, created by LibraryThing. It turns your existing LibraryThing account into a simple, professional, web-based catalog. We're here to answer your TinyCat questions via email at any time: tinycat@librarything.com. Stay tuned to our Facebook and Twitter pages for more announcements, or see a recorded webinar from July on our YouTube Channel.
Free Books: Early Reviewers
You are not currently signed up for LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. You are missing out!
Early Reviewers offers free books to members—about 100 titles a month! Since 2007, we've given out over 160,000 books. The catch? Publishers want your honest review. How you review a book won't help or hurt your chances of winning books in the future, but not reviewing your winning will.
» Sign up for Early Reviewers
The April batch of Early Reviewers books features 2,389 copies of 86 different titles. The deadline to request a free book is Monday, April 24th at 6pm, Eastern. Look for the May batch around the 1st.
The most requested books so far from the April batch:
More free books: Member Giveaways
At any given time, there are hundreds of books available from our Member Giveaways program. It's like Early Reviewers, but isn't limited to select publishers—any author or member can post books. Request books, or offer your own!
Hot titles this month
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne, John Tiffany, and J.K. Rowling
- The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
- A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
That's it for this month. I'll see you all in May!
Questions, comments, ideas? Send them my way.
—Loranne (loranne@librarything.com)
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