Frequently requested features
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Features on this page are frequently requested ones. Please don't start new threads about them on the forum. The LibraryThing team knows they are wanted.
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[edit] Collections
- Wish list: A list of books that are desired but not owned. This will be handled by the Collections feature. ([1])
- Owned/unowned/read/unread flags: This is more general than a wish list in that books can be marked owned but unread as well (books on a wishlist would likely be both unowned and unread). This may be handled by the Collections feature as well, but we'll have to wait to see what exactly it is.
- Currently reading tracking (this will be handled by collections) ConceptDawg
- Ability to track Collections by author name rather than by book title
[edit] Combining/Series/Multi-Author
- Option/Flag to set title/author at particular name, meant to correct misspellings instead of choosing from variations
- Better Author System (Author/Translator/Illustrator/Editor)
- Ability to "explode" works/separate multiple books at once
- Super- and subwork concepts (including short story collections, anthologies etc)
- Book separation by ISBN
- Work Links/Disambiguation
- Lists (as distinct from the "series" introduced in January 2008)
[edit] Privacy
- Private books
- Private fields (private comments now live 1)
- Allow selective access to private libraries (eg., friends)
- Private tags
- Privacy by collection
[edit] Import/Export
- LibraryThing<->Facebook Widget (3rd party versions exist)
- Custom Import Formats
- iPod Export (currently in beta testing: ConceptDawg)
- More Library/Bookseller Sources (Google Booksearch, international libraries, etc)
- Use LibraryThing as a source on the Add Books page
- Allow adding multiple books/multiple copies from a single search (on LT or from Add Books). This is not the same as Universal Import.
- Add the 'Comments' field to the list of fields exported.
- Export library in RIS, BibTeX, and other formats for commmon bibliographic software programs
- Backup of library (some XML-format or other), in case LibraryThing is hit by earthquake/fire/flood/tornado/bankruptcy/IRS/Department of Homeland Security/gremlins
- Export all fields in the database.
- Allow manual import to upload multiple records from file (title, author)
[edit] Library
- Page through catalog by jumping to letter
- More columns in library view/alter column width
- Drag-and-drop books/Better sorting (series, etc.)
- Support for Hebrew books based on the United Libraries of Israel (ULI) catalog. If you need technical help with it, or with Hebrew, don't hesitate to contact LT user 'ijon' at asaf.bartov--AT--gmail.com. Details on the Z39 interface are available
- Manually enter book by copying from another
- A direct link to the book on Google Book Search where it can be viewed/searched online
[edit] Fields
- A quotes field so you can save quotes extracted from the books and then find them. It's very useful for thesis writing.
- Tag Replacement along with mass add/delete (This maintains tag order)
- Longer max field length (Author, Title, Tags, Author Pic Copyright)
- Library Value (Tim opposes this. See post #143.)
- Tracking book loans (Workaround: Use tags/comments)
- Custom fields
- Edit tags from tag cloud/merge 1 tag into another from tag cloud
- Allow importing subject headings from a library, when the original source record is not a library. (??? Timspalding)
- Adding own subject headings (Workaround: use tags)
- Work or Book Synopsis field
- Field specifically for linking to url of online book.
- Page Count field
- Location field (e.g. Living room, work, office)
[edit] Suggestions
- Move books from fiction<->nonfiction for own suggestions only, not affecting other people
- Exclude certain books from consideration when making suggestions (this is possible now in a limited, workaround since with tags, by tagging everything else with some placeholder tag, but the full flexibility of being able to work on arbitrary subsets of your library -- or even to *exclude* a particular tag rather than include one -- is still desired)
- Be able to mark suggested books as 'don't show this' (e.g. to prevent the recommendation for a partial work because you own the full version)
- See suggestions for a certain set of nontagged books (search results, etc)
- Consider ratings (yours and/or others) when making suggestions -- computationally very expensive, and probably unlikely
[edit] Misc.
- On the Review page, the list of others reviews should have a default order by date (agreed by conceptDawg)
- Better non-Latin character handling (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, etc.)
- Indication of logged-in status for other users [Tim against this, probably]
- More frequent Zeitgeist updates
- multiple 1, multiple 2 (for anyone who wants to collate a longer list)
- Not have to choose 'European Date Order' every single time a date is to be entered
- Spoiler alerts for reviews [Tim is pretty opposed to this one]
- Show which books are in your library on Author/Tag/Work Suggestion pages.
- Change Default Author Picture within own gallery
- Okay, this is not a frequently-requested feature—one user hates President Carter! Correction. Two users.
- A tagging system and/or categorical structure for groups
[edit] Big Changes
- Support other media, eg., CDs, DVDs, etc.
- Use LT offline
[edit] This Wiki
- RSS feeds throughout.