{"id":267,"date":"2011-06-22T15:57:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T20:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/?p=267"},"modified":"2011-06-24T07:46:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T12:46:32","slug":"librarything-free-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/2011\/06\/22\/librarything-free-books\/","title":{"rendered":"LibraryThing \/ Free Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Since I like to organize books, one of my favorite websites is <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">LibraryThing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">. \u00a0It works well for our small library since I was able to catalog our entire collection online through this site. \u00a0However, it also is great for individuals. \u00a0You can get an account for free. Once signed up, you can use it to keep track of all the books that you have read. That seems to be a common problem among patrons &#8211; remembering what books they have already read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The best part about a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">LibraryThing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> account though, is that you can win free books. \u00a0People who publish books like to have lots of written reviews on LibraryThing or Amazon. \u00a0They are willing to send out free pre-released copies of their book to people who are willing to write a public review. \u00a0A review only has to consist of 25 words or more, and it doesn&#8217;t matter if it is positive or negative. \u00a0Each month LibraryThing has a drawing to see who gets the free copies.\u00a0I have received 5 to 6 \u00a0books in this way. You can choose only the books that you are interested in. \u00a0Go ahead and give it a try.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I like to organize books, one of my favorite websites is LibraryThing. \u00a0It works well for our small library since I was able to catalog our entire collection online through this site. \u00a0However, it also is great for individuals. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/2011\/06\/22\/librarything-free-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  LibraryThing \/ Free Books<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5uT5W-4j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}