This is something to hear and talk about it but this is something totally different to experience it, it’s thrilling, even on modest scales.

Since my LibraryThing application for Facebook is out it has clearly had a viral growth curve. So far there are only 435 users and every week I am looking for an inflection of this tendency. I know there will be one because there is a limited number of LibraryThing users on Facebook. My goal, right now, is to attract as many of them as possible on this application.

The next step will be to attract Facebook users to LibraryThing. But I know that for this I will need help from Tim Spalding and the LibraryThing team. I have always been grateful for their work but I must admit that I have been quite disappointed recently as I was trying to contact them and they constantly ignored me.

I am also thinking about open-sourcing the application, because I think it is both a good use case for people who are developing Python/Django applications on Google AppEngine and those who are developing for the Facebook platform. I still have to choose a license but the GNU Affero General Public License seems like a good match.

Anyway, if you love books, got plenty of them and want to share your readings, do not forget to give LibraryThing a try and once your are convinced, join the Facebook application, with this application you can:

• Add a tab and a box to your profile, listing your most recent books
• Choose the number of books to display in your profile tab
• Choose whether you want to display them with covers only or as a list which will include your ratings and reviews
• If you grant the application the right to publish to your stream it will publish books you add to LibraryThing on your wall
• It will also publish reviews as you write them on LibraryThing

You can also:

• Browse your Facebook friend’s books
• Find books on the search page
• Share a book you like or comment on it (those are Facebook only features and will not appear in LibraryThing)
• Add a book to your LibraryThing collection with a single click

Enjoy :)