Bruce Feiler - Where God Was Born, Abraham, Walking The Bible

"Cow Born With Two Heads in June"
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Last week I posted about the new trend in libraries and the website LibraryThing. Within hours, I got this very friendly and informative letter from its founder (with a stellar Mesopotamian reference). Rather than leave it in the comments section, I thought I'd share it with everyone. If this is an indication of their customer service (or just their monitoring of blog commentary about them), they are on the ball!

Hey there. This is the LibraryThing founder. Thanks for noticing us.

Two quick points:

We didn't time the announcement to go with the Shelfari thing, I promise. More and more I'm seeing people connect what happens with LibraryThing to other events—quite wrongly. Perhaps you'll appreciate the comparison, but it reminds me of Mesopotamian divination texts: cow born with two heads in June [horizonal line] famine in November. Bingo, a pattern!

I'm glad you found your page. I'm sure you saw that all of your books also have a page, with ratings, reviews, etc. Did you see that LibraryThing has a special "LibraryThing Authors" section? Catalog 50 books, so your readers can get an idea of what's on your shelf, and LibraryThing promotes you in various fun (but not necessarily valuable) ways. Check it out. We'd love to have you.

http://www.librarything.com/librarything_author.php

Best,
Tim

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