May State of the Thing

LibraryThing: State of the Thing Dear {NAME}, Welcome to the May 2019 State of the Thing. This month, we're gearing up for a Pride Treasure Hunt, Litsy is now on the web, and more. If you'd rather receive a plain-text version, [edit your email preferences](. You can also [read it online](. Our newsletter archive lives [here](. You can like LibraryThing on [Facebook]( and follow [@LibraryThing]( on Twitter for up-to-the-minute site news and updates. Pride Treasure Hunt June is [Pride Month](, and 2019 is also the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. We're honoring that history and celebrating Pride with a themed treasure hunt. Check in on LibraryThing Monday, June 10th (the [Talk About LibraryThing group]( will have the announcement, as well as your [Home page]() for the festivities to begin. The treasure hunt will last for one week (closing Monday, June 17th). There will be prizes! Solve at least one clue and get a rainbow profile badge, solve 5+ clues and get a free lifetime membership, solve them all and be entered into a drawing for one of 10 LibraryThing or TinyCat t-shirts or stamps of your choice (as seen in the [LibraryThing Store](). If you haven't already gotten in on the discussion for future treasure hunt suggestions, feel free to add your feedback on [Talk](. Talk of the Thing [Books read this year (so far).]( How many books have you read in 2019 so far? Add your total to the discussion on [Talk](. [Club Read 2019.]( If you're looking for a place to track your reading for the year, check out [Club Read 2019](! [Name That Book.]( Can't remember the title of that book you read as a kid, but the cover was blue? The [Name That Book group]( members can help! Whether you're on the hunt for a lost favorite, or enjoy playing book detective yourself, it's worth following. Did You Know? [Litsy on the web.]() Did you know that LibraryThing runs Litsy, and Litsy is now on the web? Previously an app-only platform, with Litsy on the web you can browse your feed, stack books, post, and comment from any computer, tablet or mobile device. Give it a try: . Free Books: Early Reviewers httsps://www.librarything.com/er/listYou are not currently signed up for [LibraryThing's Early Reviewers]( program. You are missing out! Early Reviewers offers free books to members—about 100 titles a month! Since 2007, we've given out over 160,000 books. The catch? Publishers want your honest review. How you review a book won't help or hurt your chances of winning books in the future, but not reviewing your winning will. [» Sign up for Early Reviewers]( The May batch of [Early Reviewers]( books features 5,035 copies of 102 different titles. The deadline to request a free book is Tuesday, May. 28th at 6pm, Eastern. Look for the June batch around the 3rd. The most requested books so far from the May batch: TinyCat News [TinyCat]() is the online catalog for small libraries, created by LibraryThing. It turns your existing LibraryThing account into a simple, professional, web-based catalog. 90-day Free Trial It's not too late to get your 90-day free trial of TinyCat! Now through the end of May, new organizations will automatically have 90 days to try out TinyCat, rather than the usual 30 days. Check out our [Tiny Tutorials]( and [LibraryThing for TinyCat Users]( series. Every other week, Kristi highlights a different feature, and walks you through how to use it in 30 seconds or less. Other Resources - Email us tinycat@librarything.com - Follow us on [Twitter]( - More tutorials on our [YouTube Channel]( Weekly Webinars We also offer free, weekly webinars giving an overview of TinyCat every other Wednesday, at 1pm Eastern. Join us for our next one, Wednesday, June 5, at 1pm EDT. Head over to [this link]( at that time, and look for the TinyCat Webinar. If Wednesday at 1pm doesn't work for you, let us know—we'll be happy to schedule a session for you. You can also see a pre-recorded webinar from November 2017 [here](. Hot titles this month - [Where the Crawdads Sing]( by Delia Owens - [The Library Book]( by Susan Orlean - [Becoming]( by Michelle Obama - [Educated: A Memoir]( by Tara Westover - [Circe]( by Madeline Miller - [An American Marriage]( by Tayari Jones - [Children of Blood and Bone]( by Tomi Adeyemi - [Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood]( by Trevor Noah - [Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine]( by Gail Honeyman - [The Alice Network]( by Kate Quinn That's it for this month. I'll see you all in June! Questions, comments, ideas? Send them my way. —Loranne (loranne@librarything.com) This message was sent to {NAME}. Click to [edit your email preferences or unsubscribe from future emails](.