Picture Clips from Google's Public Domain Books

From A Book of Cheerful Cats and Other Animated Animals (1903), showing a "Study of Hedgehog Stealing Apple".

Using Google Books' "Advanced Book Search", search with "Public domain only" and "Books" selected to narrow to whatever topic you want. Click on the search result to load the book into Google's reader. Scroll to the picture you want to copy and use the tool to create a box around the picture. After loading, a "Share a clip" dialogue box will appear. Copy the URL in the image field. When you post to Blogger.com, paste this URL into the "Or add an image from the Web" field to upload your clipped picture.

I always add the title with a link back to the book on Google to give credit where credit is due.

Thing #16: LibraryThing

Zombie Letters from e-zombie.com

This is so exciting. I have been curious about LibraryThing for some time, but had not taken the time to investigate it yet. I signed up for a free account and added a few books from my home library, as well as tagged them.
http://www.librarything.com/home/LibTechGuruGoddess

We've got a "coals to Newcastle" problem in our house, since I'm a librarian and my husband is a librarian. We both love books and reading. I often joke that we'll need to re-enforce the floors because of all the weight from the books—and we don't have a basement. One day I'll arrive home from work and the house will have disappeared into a sinkhole.



I'll need to add more books to my LibraryThing library, and will then explore more about adding a LibraryThing widget to put my library on my blog, as well as adding a Search widget that lets readers look through my LibraryThing library directly from my blog.

That's not surprising—the Librarians Who LibraryThing group is the one with the most members (6,366).

As a related item, Google provides a similar service with their "My Library" feature, with some nifty bells-&-whistles. There's a good YouTube video on their blogspot site on how to easily upload your titles, using a barcode scanner and the ISBN barcode on the book. I like the fact that you can then search the full text of the books in your own Google library.

Thing #5: Image Generators

I'm taking a very helpful group workshop for NT23 Things #3 through #5. I've generated a cartoon image:


I also tried Image Chef and it's oh so easy to use! One of my loosing campaigns here out at the Annex:

Thing #4: More Flickr

I tried "Spell with Flickr" and that was trés amusant!