{"id":6986,"date":"2006-06-20T11:55:58","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T11:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/library-thing.html"},"modified":"2006-06-20T11:55:58","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T11:55:58","slug":"library-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/library-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"Library Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you have noticed the new widget over there on the left rail. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\">Library Thing, <\/a>a way to organize your personal library online. I&#8217;m not much for organizing anything, but I saw how <a href=\"http:\/\/poncer.blogspot.com\/\">TSO mentioned it with interest<\/a>, so I checked it out. I have no idea at this point what I&#8217;ll use it for except to find related books to my areas of interest. The particular widget I have gives a random sample of the latest books I&#8217;ve entered into Library Thing, not the latest I&#8217;ve read, btw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you have noticed the new widget over there on the left rail. It&#8217;s Library Thing, a way to organize your personal library online. I&#8217;m not much for organizing anything, but I saw how TSO mentioned it with interest, so I checked it out. I have no idea at this point what I&#8217;ll use&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Library Thing - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/library-thing.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Library Thing - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some of you have noticed the new widget over there on the left rail. 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