Saturday, January 23, 2010

LibraryThing

am gathering data on LibraryThing users who have joined LibraryThing groups. According to the website, there are 900,000 LibraryThing users around the world, but based on the numbers that I am adding up right now, not everyone has chosen to join a special group to discuss books or other topics.

Counting up the number of people who could fit neatly into different categories is also a challenge, as some can be counted in more than one category. For example, if someone is a member of a Hogwarts LibraryThing group, they could be counted in the Childrens/YA category, the fantasy category, the single-author fan category, and the fiction category, so categorizing LibraryThing folks is not always an exact, obvious science. Not only that, but a member of one LibraryThing group could potentially belong to other groups; I can only count them once, though.

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