# LibraryThing

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/librarything/

6 people recommended LibraryThing in Hacker News comments and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 12 months, in 5 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for cataloging books and finding readers whose libraries overlap with theirs, and for its long history.

Summary written by Claude from 7 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 6 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Better than Amazon and Goodreads (2 comments in the sample): "Librarything is fantastic at it (far better than Amazon" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596271)) "which I find so much better than goodreads" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072371))

## Other book trackers people recommend

- [Goodreads](https://hackerapproved.com/p/goodreads/): 9 recommend, 7 mixed, 29 criticize
- [Hardcover](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hardcover/): 6 recommend, 1 mixed, 0 criticize

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.librarything.com/)

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "LibraryThing", https://hackerapproved.com/p/librarything/ (6 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.