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Today’s question, courtesy of Marie: Members who have your books. Do you ever look at this feature? Do you use it to make LT friends, or compare notes? There are three tabs- weighted, raw, and recent. “Weighted,” which means “weighted by book obscurity and library size” is probably the least self-explanatory of the three, whereas “raw” and “recent” are more so. Do you get any kind of use out of this feature?
I’ve looked at this, but don’t find it particularly useful. Using raw, the person I share the most books with (321 books) has 4147 books in her library. We really don’t have that many in common… After that I share 235 with a user that lists 72008 (which is actually a library not a user). Clearly any library that big is going to have something in common with me. After that are a bunch of users with large collections- so again I still don’t really feel like it’s very useful. I also don’t think that the ‘recent’ tab is very interesting or useful… I don’t recognize any of the users. Maybe if ‘recent’ really meant we were adding them at the same time, I’d get more out of it.
Now the weighted is more interesting. I have a bunch in common with Devourer of Books and thekoolaidmom. Probably ARCs are what’s connecting us there. And there’s also a person who I’ve added as an interesting library because they have a lot of Alexander the Great books- and it’s cool to see what they have and I don’t.
So the weighted is probably my favorite and the one I check the most! Which is your favorite?
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Weighted for me, too. I’ve got a couple of book bloggers high on my list, probably because of ARCs. Otherwise, most of the people on my list are those who also own romance novels. I keep hoping some of the top names for those will change as my library grows, but it hasn’t happened much yet.
I’ve looked at those tabs a couple times and didn’t find them very useful. I guess I need to explore them a little more.
I don’t know if it’s my favorite, but “weighted” is what I’ve looked at up to now, simply because it seems to be the default. As another blogger said, “raw” sounds to me more like something to cook than anything to do with books!
I’ve watched some familiar names creep closer and closer to the top of my “weighted” list, which is interesting. I haven’t used the list to “friend” anyone …
Of the three I also find weighted the most interesting, because as you mentioned the raw usually compares against gigantic libraries.
I always use these features!
What I do is click on the different top people who have similar books and look at their libraries to get ideas of books I have not read yet! I have found alot of new books this way.
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Interesting question since I pay no attention to this feature. In fact it is only recently that I even thought of LT as a place for social networking. I use it to add vampire or other paranormal titles which would be useful to me as a blogger and/or bibliographer.
Now I have to take another look at LT. It obviously has many other uses.
I miss your posts. I hope you’re just busy with school.
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