Velmi krátké seznámení s Library Thing

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Signing up for LibraryThing is fast and easy. All you need is a user name and a password. We do not require any other information.

To sign up for LibraryThing, go to the home page, click "Join now" and enter a user name and a password in the yellow box. You're done!

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• You can add an email to your account when you sign up, or by going to your Profile and choosing Edit profile/account settings. If you don't add an email, it will be hard for you to retrieve a lost password. You can choose to keep your email address hidden, so no one else can see it.

Přidat knihy

Start your LibraryThing library by adding books to it.

Click the Add books tab. In the green search box, enter a title, author or an ISBN. Books will appear on the right side of the screen. Click on a book to add it to your library.

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• LibraryThing takes its book information from Amazon, the Library of Congress, or one of more than 680 other world libraries. Look under "Search where?" to change your source.
• Click the "(more)" under a book title to display more information about a book, such as the edition.
• Import a whole list of books by using the Universal Import.
• Many members like to tag their books (what are tags?). To tag your books as you enter them, fill in the "Tags to add" field before you click search.
• Click "show quick edit" to add tags, ratings or a review to the book right after you add it. To edit more information, click the pencil icon.
• For faster entry, use the * key on your numberpad instead of the 'x' in an ISBN.
• Use a CueCat barcode scanner to enter your books quickly.

See the Adding books FAQ for more

Tvá knihovna

Your library displays all the books that you have added to your catalog.

You can choose to show your books as a list or display just the covers

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• Double-click a box to edit the information in it, or click the pencil icon.
• Customize which columns you want to display by choosing a display style. You can save up to 5 display styles. Edit them by clicking the pencil.
• Sort your catalog by clicking on the name of the column (author, title, etc.). Click once to ascending (i.e., A-Z), or click twice to decending (i.e., Z-A). A little blue triangle will appear next to the name of the column that you're sorting by.
• The people in the shared column indicate how many members share the book with you. A text bubble means that the book has reviews on LibraryThing. The number below the people shows you how many people list the book in their catalog and the number of reviews.
• Click the printer icon to create a printable list of your books.
• Use PowerEdit to edit several books at the same time.

More: Your library and your books FAQ

Tvé knihy

Each book you add to your library connects you to other people on LibraryThing.

The book page gives you library-quality data and shows you who else has the book and what they think about it.

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• Click details to see more information about a book.
• Click "Edit book" to edit the book's data, or to add a review, rating or tags.
• Click "Common Knowledge" to add facts about the book such as character names, awards, or places.
• Click "Change cover" to upload your own cover image, or use a different cover.
• Pro odstranění knihy z katalogu, označ červený

More: Your library and your books FAQ

Tvůj profil

Your profile page contains an overview of you and your library. It also highlights members with similar libraries, and lets you keep up with your friends' recently added books, reviews and ratings.

See at a glance how many books are in your collection, tag and author clouds, links to reviews you've written, a photo gallery of authors in your collection, and much more.

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• Under Edit profile/account settings you can choose to upload a picture, write a little bit about yourself and your library, and set some account preferences. All the profile fields are optional—you choose how much or how little you want to share.
• If you'd rather keep your library private, click "Edit profile/account settings"
• Use "Comments" to send a note to another member.
• The Statistics page shows you books that you share with only one other LibraryThing member (your soulmate, perhaps?). You can also see which series are represented in your library and other interesting statistics.
• When you view another member's profile, you see how many books you share with that person. You can also choose to add other members to your friends list, your "interesting libraries" list, or your private watchlist to keep track of them.
• Use Connections News to follow your connections' reviews, ratings and other updates.

More: Your profile FAQ

Talk and Groups

Connect with other members by joining or creating a group. You can make a group for a club, a place, a subject, or even a private group for just your friends.

You can talk in the group forum, search all group members' libraries at once, or check out the Group Zeitgeist to spot shared books.

All the group forums are connected through Talk. Talk is a special sort of "forum" system. With Talk you can see the conversations happening in all groups, or just your groups. You can also find just the conversations that mention the books in your LibraryThing library.

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• In Talk, you can select which conversations you'd like to view by clicking one of the options under "The World" or "Your World".
• To keep tabs on a Group without actually joining it, you can "watch" a group. It will show up in your list of groups, but you won't appear on the list of members.
• Add "touchstones" to your posts. Touchstones are works and authors "touched on" by your message (in a group message board or talk posting). To add a touchstone, put square brackets around the works and authors in your message—single brackets for works, double brackets for authors. Adding touchstones helps you and others find the conversations that interest them the most.

More: Talk and Groups FAQ

Lokální

LibraryThing Local connects you to local bookstores, libraries and book festivals—and to all the author readings, signings, discussions and events they host.

Anyone can add a venue or an event.

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• Local Home shows you venues in your area. By default, it will show you the local you gave on your profile page (if you provided one). Click the pencil to put your exact location in (you can keep it hidden).
• Click the star to mark a venue as a "favorite". Click the star by an event to indicate that you're interested in attending. You can also see who else might be going to the same events.

More: Local FAQ

Share

You can show off your LibraryThing library to anyone! Use the unique URL listed on your profile to link to your catalog and your profile.

Put your library on your blog with a LibraryThing widget.

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• To make a blog widget that displays books that you're currently reading, tag those books and then use the standard blog widget to display only books with that tag.
• Make a Search widget that will let people search your LibraryThing library directly from your blog.

Need more help?

Try our Frequently Asked Questions or contact us.