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'>Dear Slighe_nan_Gaidheal,
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margin: 10px 0;">Welcome to the January 2019 State of the Thing. We're heading to ALA Midwinter this week, and hope to see you there! Plus, check out the latest version of the LibraryThing App, and get ready for our 2nd annual Valentine's Day-themed treasure hunt!</p>
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<a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://2019.alamidwinter.org/">American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting</a>. LibraryThing won't have a booth, though three members of our team will be attending and there will be a LibraryThing Meetup on Saturday. We've got free, <a
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margin: 10px 0;">Tim will be hanging out at the ProQuest booth (#1708), showing off something LibraryThing and ProQuest made together—it's called <a
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<p
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<p
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margin: 10px 0;">Longtime LT member benitastrnad has been kind enough to organize a meetup for anyone who'd like to join in. Full details on <a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/topic/302879">Talk</a>—here's the brief version:
<ul><li><b
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color:#cc3300;">What:</b> LibraryThing Meetup</li>
<li><b
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color:#cc3300;">When:</b> Saturday, Jan. 26th, 5pm (followed by dinner at 6:45)</li>
<li><b
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color:#cc3300;">Where:</b> Sheraton Grand Seattle (dinner at <a
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text-decoration: none;" href="http://taphousegrill.com/">Tap House Grill</a>)</li></ul>
<p
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margin: 10px 0;">Make sure to let us know if you're planning on joining us for dinner. Hope to see you there!</p>
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margin: 10px 0;">Meet the latest version (1.1.0) of the <a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/LibraryThing_App">LibraryThing App</a>! For our first major update since its release, we've focused on adding more cataloging data sources (nearly 5,000 of them!), better filtering and browsing of your books, and making sure the app works well for iPhone X users.</p>
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/librarything/id948824489?mt=8">iTunes</a> or <a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.librarything.librarything&hl=en">Google Play</a> to download the update and see it in action.</p>
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margin: 10px 0;">You can now add your favorite library data sources for cataloging on the mobile app. From the Home screen, tap "Account," then "Edit sources," followed by "Add sources" to get started. You'll be able to choose from popular sources, view sources by country, or see the full list of Amazon data sources available.</p>
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margin: 10px 0;">Browsing your books got a whole lot easier: from Home, tap "Your Catalog." From there, you can select All Books, or choose to filter by Collections, Authors, or Tags.</p>
<p
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/topic/302878">Talk</a></b>. Let us know what you think!</p>
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<p
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/topic/302547">Most recent library visit?</a></b> When did you last visit a library? Are you a regular at your local branch, or do you tend to focus on reading from your own library at home? Join the discussion on <a
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text-decoration: none;" href="httsps://www.librarything.com/er/list"><img border=0 src="http://www.librarything.com/pics/lter_small_transparent.gif" style="border-style: none; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" /></a>You are not currently signed up for <a href="http://www.librarything.com/er/list">LibraryThing's Early Reviewers</a> program. You are missing out!</p>
<p>Early Reviewers offers free books to members—about 100 titles a month! Since 2007, we've given out over 160,000 books. The catch? Publishers want your honest review. How you review a book won't help or hurt your chances of winning books in the future, but not reviewing your winning will.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.librarything.com/er/list">» Sign up for Early Reviewers</a></p><p>The January batch of <a
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<p
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/more/widgets">LibraryThing Widgets.</a></b> Did you know that you can highlight your LibraryThing collection on other websites? Our <a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/widget">Blog Widget</a> is the most popular, but we also have widgets that allow you to search your library, as well as include your current read in your email signature! Check them out <a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/more/widgets">here</a>.</p>
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/groups/75booksin2019">75 Books in 2019.</a></b> Did you know that the 75ers challenge group is one of the most active groups on the site, year after year? Members challenge themselves to read 75 books in one calendar year. Give it a try, and join the group on <a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/groups/75booksin2019">Talk</a>.</p>
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text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.librarycat.org"><img border=0 src="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/e0/ff/e0ff48a560cd17f637258376d77434b41716b42.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 10px 10px 20px 10px"/></a><a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarycat.org">TinyCat</a> is the online catalog for small libraries, created by LibraryThing. It turns your existing LibraryThing account into a simple, professional, web-based catalog.</p>
<b
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<p
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margin: 10px 0;">Every month we'll be highlighting one of the real-world libraries that uses TinyCat for their collections. You can see this month's Library of the Month on the <a
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text-decoration: none;" href="http://blog.librarything.com/main/">LibraryThing blog</a>. Meet <a
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text-decoration: none;" href="http://blog.librarything.com/main/2019/01/tinycats-january-library-of-the-month-the-pecorella-library/">The Pecorella Library</a>!
<p
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5TMrN56GuqsnkAzrxzVMlZsgv1Cy4Muy">LibraryThing for TinyCat Users</a> series. Every other week, Kristi highlights a different feature, and walks you through how to use it in 30 seconds or less.</p>
<b
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<li>Follow us on <a
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<li>More tutorials on our <a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.youtube.com/librarything">YouTube Channel</a></li>
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<b
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<p
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color:#cc3300;">Wednesdays, at 1pm Eastern</b>. Join us for our next one, Wednesday, Jan. 30th, at 1pm EST. Head over to <a
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<p
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margin: 10px 0;">If Wednesday at 1pm doesn't work for you, let us know—we'll be happy to schedule a session for you. You can also see a pre-recorded webinar from November 2017 <a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRgRVCCp5do">here</a>.</p>
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<li><a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/work/20290985">
Educated: A Memoir</a> by Tara Westover</li>
<li><a
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color:#185396;
text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/work/154802260">Circe</a> by Madeline Miller</li>
<li><a
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color:#185396;
text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/work/19440148">Children of Blood and Bone</a> by Tomi Adeyemi</li>
<li><a
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color:#185396;
text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/work/19489984">The Great Alone</a> by Kristin Hannah</li>
<li><a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/work/18440381">Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine</a> by Gail Honeyman</li>
<li><a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/work/14587710">Bird Box</a> by Josh Malerman</li>
<li><a
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color:#185396;
text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/work/17833481">Pachinko</a> by Min Jin Lee</li>
<li><a
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color:#185396;
text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/work/19453928">The Woman in the Window</a> by A.J. Finn</li>
<li><a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/work/18690995">The Hate U Give</a> by Angie Thomas</li>
<li><a
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text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.librarything.com/work/13303467">Crazy Rich Asians</a> by Kevin Kwan</li>
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<p
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margin: 10px 0;">That's it for this month. I'll see you all in February!</p>
<p
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<p
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