That’s it, exactly!

You’re right that SantaThing is only one small example of the way this community works, but it’s a good one. I’ve been a member of LibraryThing for years, but I keep discovering new things.

Here are some of my favorites:

I See Dead People’s Books — Entering the personal libraries of famous readers into LibraryThing as Legacy Libraries

LibraryThing Zeitgeist — All sorts of LT statistics, including things like the “50 Completist Authors” (Average number of different books held by people who have any books by the author)

UnSuggester — “Unsuggester takes ‘people who like this also like that’ and turns it on its head. It analyzes the thirty million books LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and comes back with books least likely to share a library with the book you suggest.”

LibraryThing’s Flash Mob Cataloging Party — My blog posting about a real-life LibraryThing event