LibraryThing

This service allows a user to manage the books he owns. The user can enter his books through either an ISBN of UPC code. Or he can fill out the various fields for a Book bookmark. This book bookmark has also some personal fields such as tags, comments, a review (url) and a rating. Thus the MicroContent type is like a review. The user has various edit possibilities. Nice are the very extended import facilities. One can for instance point to an Amzon wishlist to import the items there.

The service also has a feed with the recently added books. And there are some recommendation functions, which give related books or users.

This service can be seen as an online MicroContent client. It has features such as items (the review) and panes (view and items).

• Structured MicroContent - YES, a review;
• Data Outside - YES, there are many import possibilites;
• Licenses - NO;
• Feeds Galore - NO, just the latest books added. And there is a simple export possibility;
• Web API’s - NO, not that I am aware of;
• Desktop Integration - NO;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - NO;
• Wild Structure - NO;

tags: microcontent, type, review, service, librarything

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