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The October edition of our State of the Thing newsletter has gone out to more than 1 million subscribers! See the 🧵 below for more details, and be sure to catch up on old issues online. #LibraryThing #StateoftheThing #💙📚 #Booksky

We announced our attendance at the Boston Book Festival, where we pre-launching Chapter One, our new dating app for book lovers. Find out more about Chapter One here: chapteronedating.com

We introduced some major changes to the Your books page, where members access and edit their catalog! We added new functionality, changed the way the page is laid out and increased the different ways in which the catalog can be viewed. Let us know what you think: www.librarything.com/topic/387028

We debuted the ability to use your computer‘s camera as a barcode scanner right from the Add Books page. Come take a look and give us your feedback over in Talk: www.librarything.com/topic/387027

We invited members to participate in our annual Halloween Treasure Hunt! We've scattered a hauntourage of ghosts around the site. Solve the clues, find the pages, and win a badge and the chance at a prize! www.librarything.com/hunt/46

We shone a spotlight on some of the amazing discussions going on in Talk—LibraryThing's discussion forum. Come find a group that's right for you! www.librarything.com/ngroups

We presented our interview with author Molly Guptill Manning about her new book, "A Librarian‘s War: The Man Who Fought World War II with Books and Brought the Joy of Reading to Millions." Come read what she has to say about the book and its subject: blog.librarything.com/2026/10/auth...