Library thing is a great way to keep track of your own personal book collection. Library thing allows you to catalog your own book collection. Personally, I use library thing to keep track of my leisure reading, as cataloging all my classical studies books would be a mountainous task. Library thing helps me also keep track of my collection by allowing a type of folksonomy tagging. For example I have my books separated into "unread" and "read" sections via tagging. I also even have an "unfinished" tag. I tend to "mooch" lots of books via another site called "Bookmooch" and LibraryThing allows me to keep track of what's coming in and going out.
The interface is very intuitive with navigation tabs: home, profile, you library, tags and add books among other more social and informative navigational tabs further to the right of the main interface. When viewing "your library" LibraryThing gives you several views and ways to examine your collection. 
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In addition to various different way to view your collection. LibraryThing also integrates other services such as: GoogleBooks, Library of Congress Classifications.
What makes LibraryThing web2.o is the users ability to also view others who have similiar collections to thier own, view all the users that have a particular book in thier collection. Along with lots of user groups users can join such as: Librarians Who LibraryThing or FantasyFans, to more inventive ones such as I Survived the Great Vowel Shift.
Overall LibraryThing gives users the ability to play librarian of thier own collections, its no surpise so many librarians LibraryThing. Its great to control your inventory, so much so that some libraries are using it for thier collections http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6403633.html.
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