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Contents 1 Your Library 1.1 Top Navigation 1.1.1 View Type 1.1.2 Display styles 1.1.3 View printable catalog 1.1.4 PowerEdit Mode 1.1.5 Search 1.1.5.1 Search help 1.1.6 Previous/Next page 1.1.7 Page numbers 1.2 Bottom Navigation 1.2.1 Previous/Next page 1.2.2 Page numbers 1.2.3 Permanent link 1.3 List view 1.3.1 Sorting 1.3.2 Available columns 1.3.3 Shared Column 1.4 Cover view 1.4.1 social 1.4.2 info 1.4.3 edit 1.4.4 amazon

[edit] Your Library

Your library is the place to see all the books in your LibraryThing catalog.

[edit] Top Navigation

[edit] View Type

List view displays your books in a grid format, with each book displayed in a row, and various information fields displayed in the columns. See more about List View

Cover view displays only the covers of your books. More information about a book is available by clicking on the cover. See more about Cover View

[edit] Display styles

The display styles allow you to set which subsets of columns you want to see in List View. You can edit these, as well as set the number of records to appear per page and set a suggested style for others viewing your library, by clicking on the edit button.

[edit] View printable catalog

Opens your current catalog view in printer-friendly format in a new window. Control what is printed by setting the columns shown in your display styles.

[edit] PowerEdit Mode

Opens PowerEdit mode. PowerEdit allows you to select perform certain actions on multiple books at at time. You can select a subset of books using checkboxes, and then add tags, remove tags, alphabetize all tags, delete the books, set the language, or find duplicate ISBNs. Note that you cannot double-click to edit individual fields while in PowerEdit.

[edit] Search

A quick field to search within your catalog. Use the drop-down to search within a particular field (only with titles, for instance) - the default is all fields. For more help on the search syntax, see here.

[edit] Search help

Takes you to information on how to use your catalog search.

[edit] Previous/Next page

Takes you to the previous/next page of your catalog.

[edit] Page numbers

Takes you to the specified page of your catalog. Clicking on "show all" will display all page numbers. There's no easy way to "jump to" a specified place in your catalog (i.e. "S" authors); you either have to search for what you're looking for, or click around until you find it.

[edit] Bottom Navigation

[edit] Previous/Next page

Takes you to the previous/next page of your catalog.

[edit] Page numbers

Takes you to the specified page of your catalog. Clicking on "show all" will display all page numbers. There's no easy way to "jump to" a specified place in your catalog (i.e. "S" authors); you either have to search for what you're looking for, or click around until you find it.

[edit] Permanent link

Takes you to the same page with a URL address you can share with others.

[edit] List view

Shows you your books in a list format, with up to seven columns of information, plus links to the social information of the work. Double-clicking in almost every field will allow you to edit the information in-place. You can edit what columns appear by clicking on the edit link next to the display styles.

[edit] Sorting

Any column with a blue header is sortable. Click on the blue header to sort your catalog by that column (A-Z). Click on it again to reverse the sort (Z-A). You can sort by multiple columns - your catalog will remember the previous sort order and use it as a subsort. For example, if you want to sort by Author, subsorted by Title, click first on the Title heading, and then on the Author heading.

[edit] Available columns

• Cover - Displays the cover for your book, or, if it doesn't have one, the default blank cover. Clicking on the cover will bring up a link to go to the social information for the work and a link to change the cover. The cover field is not sortable, but you can find out which of your books do not have covers by going to your profile, clicking on the Statistics link towards the top center of the page, and then clicking on the "Book Covers" link, which will appear immediately below the "Statistics" link.

• Title - The title of a book. This field is sortable. LibraryThing automatically ignores initial articles like "The" and "An", so "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" will sort with the "R"s, not with the "T"s. If you have a book with a title like "A is for Apple" that you want to force to sort with the "A"s instead of the "I"s, you can do this by NEEDS MORE INFO. Clicking on a title will take you to the work page.

• Author (first last) - The author, displayed as firstname lastname. This field is sortable, although it still sorts by the last name. Clicking on an author will take you to their author page.

• Author (last first) - The author, displayed as lastname, firstname. Sortable. Clicking on an author will take you to their author page.

• More Authors - Additional authors, editors, illustrators, etc. Not sortable.

• Date - The date of publication of your book. The information that LibraryThing pulls from its information sources when adding books is typically the date of publication of your specific edition. Some enterprising users have gone through and changed every date in this field to represent original publication. These are the dates that are used for making the graph on your library stats page. Sortable.

• Tags - All of the tags you've applied to your book, separated by commas. Sortable. Clicking on a tag will bring up a list of all books with that tag. At the top of this page will be a navigation bar that says Your library > tags > TBR, for example. Clicking on "Your library" will take you back to the listing of all of your books; clicking on "tags" will take you to a page with all your tags. On the right side of this bar are links to your tag cloud, the tag page for the tag you just clicked on, and RSS feeds for this tag in your library.

• Combo - All of your tags and Comments displayed as one field. Not sortable.

• Comments - Space for information about the book that doesn't conveniently fit into any of the other categories. Some ideas from other LT members include things like purchase price, recording who has borrowed their books, contents of anthologies or short story collections, favorite quotes from the book, first lines, dedication information, etc. This field IS viewable to other people browsing your catalog. Sortable.

• Private Comments - Similar to the Comments field, except this field is only viewable by you when you are logged in, even if your catalog is set to "public". Not sortable.

• Reviews - A place for the review of your book. Not sortable.

• Rating - Your rating of the book, ranging from 1/2 to 5 stars. Click to get the number of stars you want; a second click on a star will get you a half-star, a third click will remove the star. Sortable.

• Summary - Summary of publishing information. Editable. If in green text, the summary is taken from the title, author, and publication date fields of your book and is not in your library.

• Subjects - Subjects of the book. Not editable. Subjects are filled in when a book is added from a library source (not available from book stores). If in blue text, subjects came with your the specific book & edition and are in your library. If in green text, the subjects are aggregated the work and are not in your library. Green subject data may change over time.

• Publication - The publication information for your book.

• Languages - The language(s) in your book.

• Original Language - The language(s) the book was originally written in.

• ISBN - Your book's ISBN.

• LC Classification -

• LC Call No. - The Library of Congress call number for your book. LCCNs are filled in when a book is added from a library source (not available from book stores). If in green text, the LCCN is not in your library. Green LCCN numbers may change over time. Not sortable. Not editable.

• OCLC -

• Dewey No. - The Dewey decimal number for your book. Dewey numbers are filled in when a book is added from a library source (not available from book stores). If in green text, the number is not in your library. Green Dewey decimal numbers may change over time.

• Entry Date - The date that you added a book to your LT catalog. Sortable, but not modifiable.

• Source - The source from which you acquired the information when you added a book. Not modifiable.

• BCID - Bookcrossing ID number of your book. Sortable.

• Date Acquired - The date you acquired (bought, mooched, found on the street, etc.) a book. Sortable; first click brings up most recent first.

• Date Started - The date you started reading a book. Sortable; first click brings up most recent first.

• Date Read - The date you finished reading a book. Sortable; first click brings up most recent first.

• CK: Series -

• CK: Canonical title -

• CK: Original publication date -

• CK: Important places -

• CK: People/Characters -

• CK: Awards and honors -

• Work: Title and Author - The title and author of the work (not always the same as the book in your catalog). Not sortable. Not editable.

• Google Book Search - A link to the Google Book Search information for your book.

• Swap - Provides a link to the book's swap page. LibraryThing partners with a variety of book-swapping sites. The numbers below the arrows indicate how many copies of this book are available and how many are wanted/wishlisted. Displaying this column is optional, although it does not count as one of the seven allowed. Clicking once sorts by most-wanted, clicking again sorts by most available.

[edit] Shared Column

This column appears in list view no matter which other columns you choose to display.

• Takes you to the main work page for the book. If the book has any member reviews, the icon will have a yellow speech bubble: . If you've written a review for the book, the speech bubble will turn green: . The numbers below this icon indicate how many people have this book, and how many reviews have been written for this book. Clicking on the blue "Shared" icon will sort by number of people with a book, most-popular first. Click a second time to see books that only you have (will have icons like this: ) sorted to the top.

• Takes you to the details page for your specific book.

• Takes you to the full edit page for your book.

• Brings up a confirmation dialog box asking if you really want to delete this book from your catalog.

[edit] Cover view

Shows you the covers of your books. You can set the number of covers per page, the sort order, and the cover size on the navigation bar at the top. Click on the cover to bring up the links to information about that book.

[edit] social

Takes you to the social information of the book at the work level.

[edit] info

Takes you to the detailed information of your book at the book level.

[edit] edit

Takes you to the edit information page for your book.

[edit] amazon

Takes you to a search for the book on amazon.com.