I discovered LibraryThing this past summer. On more than one occasion my dad commented that if his daughter was a librarian then she would help him organize his extensive library of mostly nonfiction books so that he'd have a record of what he had and be able to find them more easily. He was an avid reader, mostly of biography, history, science, math, government, and golf. So, last summer I set out to find a way to "catalog" what he had and that's when I found LibraryThing. I opened an account, added some books, and played around with it some and determined that it was just "the thing" for our project. Unfortunately, it was a project that never got started because dad didn't ever get well enough for us to work on it. So...when I saw that LibraryThing was next on the list, I stopped working on my 23 Things. A bit of guilt, a lot of sadness...I know that Dad would have liked it. He would have thought it was kind a nifty application.
So...how to use it at school. I think it would be so cool for a class to use it to keep track of the books that they've read. Another thing to try before the school year ends.
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