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Thursday, 7th January 2010

Cool! LibraryThing Releases Free iPhone App Named "Local Books"

A note from Tim Spalding along with a LibraryThing Blog posting alerts us to a new and what appears to be mega cool iPhone app named "Local Books." We're off to download the app now and will report back soon.

Here's some of what we learned from the blog post and a visit to the iPhone App Store:

1. It's a free app.

2. Local Books resembles popular dining apps like LocalEats or UrbanSpoon—but for book lovers. It shows you local bookstores, libraries and bookish events wherever you are or plan to be. Note: At present Local Books does not show inventory from local bookstores and libraries.
However, we wouldn't be surprised to see this feature available in the near future..

3. Search for venues (bookstores and libraries) as well as events near your current location using the iPhone's built-in location features.

4. Search for venues and events at any location or by name.

5. Venues can be sorted by distance, name, or type.

6. Venues are color coded, following the maps on LibraryThing Local (colors correspond to the colors used on maps in LibraryThing Local).

7.Each venue has a detail page with a map. Tap it to jump to the iPhone Maps application.

8. Venues often sport a description, clickable website and phone number links, events, and a photo.

9. You can favorite locations and events, and there's a "Favorites" list where you can find them.(1)

Fast Facts

Local Books is powered by LibraryThing Local, the LibraryThing member-created database of 51,000 bookstores and libraries around the world. Events too are drawn from LibraryThing Local. Notably, since last night we've had a four-fold increase in events, as we started pulling in events from Barnes and Noble, Borders, Waterstones and Indigo/Chapters, as well as IndieBound.

You can access/download LibraryThing Local via this Link to the iPhone App Store.

Finally, no iPhone? You can access Local Books via your web browser here.

Source: LibraryThing Blog


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