Library Thing Integration

##Notes

It looks like a very promising source for data such as 'series', 'author' (if more than 1), as well as a fairly complete resource for things such as reviews, awards, altrnate versions etc.

One question we need to ask is: how much data do we want to store?

It's tricky -- we allow sorts by series, and to do this we need to store the series. [Aside: LibraryThing allows for more than one series per book as per another Issue. We should do the same.]

Do we want to allow sort-by-characters? Sort-by-location? The more we allow, the more we have to such fromLibraryThing anf the more we risk becoming out-of-date. The more we locally store, the more we probably need to have a 'update from internet' on a per-book basis.

If we don't want to sort by a field, it may be best to have a 'LibraryThing' tab for a book, which will just show the details LibraryTing stores. Not at all sure.

We probably want to avoid becoming the 'LibraryThing' app, and we certainly need to avoid infringing their license conditions: http://www.librarything.com/services/keys.php. It should be noted that they also have a per-day limit on library keys. We would probably need to talk to them about these; and such limits would encourage local copies of data, I think.

Useful Features

• multiple editions looked up via OSBN
• multiple covers for same book
• multiple authors
• multiple series (this probably gets around the whole meta-series problem)