LibraryThing — Two Years Old

LibraryThing,, the online personal book cataloging/social network for readers is celebrating its second birthday, and posted a bunch of interesting statistics about its success.

A year ago we had just hit five million books on our birthday, today we’re just a few hours away from 18 million books.

We have 261,481 registered members. If we were a city, we’d be the 68th largest in the United States (Wikipedia), just above Plano, TX.

Nine libraries have signed up for LibraryThing for Libraries. Five have gone live with it. The first nine LTFL customers have uploaded over 1.75 million books.

Also included is some info about what’s available on LibraryThing:

Connection News lets you see what books your friends have recently added, rated, or reviewed.

LibraryThing integrates with ten separate book swapping sites all over the world, so you can see at a glance which books are available or wanted, and move them back and forth. Check out the Swapping FAQ.