"Having your books there like an old friend, following you from house to house for all the days and long nights of your life: this is the invaluable asset that is in publishing’s hands today. But for some reason publishing has set out to convince readers that they have no business reading their books as property—that they shouldn’t get attached to them. The worst part of this is that they may in fact succeed." – via @laurenpressley

"LibraryThing programmer Mike has put together a LibraryThing "overlay" for the mobile phone app Layar. It draws on LibraryThing Local to show you the closest bookstores and libraries…. We have our own "Local Books" application coming out soon. We think its going to be a big hit. Until then—and for the added kick of augmented reality—this is some pretty cool stuff."