LibraryThing.com
I found a cool site where you can VERY EASILY catalog all your books. I started playing today for 20 minutes. I sat in my living room and typed in all the titles on the shelf in front of me. I think only about 2 or 3 out of perhaps 40 couldn't be found. You simply type the title, a list comes up, you click the book that's yours, and that's it. I then took the code and pasted it in blogger template so now there's a book thingy on my blog. You can see other's catalogs, get suggestions, share, etc. Coolness. I'm positive TikkunGer and Nani will LOVE this :)
posted by Tamara @ 9:59 PM
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Yeah, this would be useful, but when you've got thousands of books, you still need someone to do data entry on the forms to enter them all. Most are not first editions, but many are gifts from very obscrure authors I've known. Many, perhas most are now out of print too. So nice thought, but everything needs work! Cheers, 'VJ'
VJ, it may not be ideal for catalogueing that many books. However, let's say you had a bee keeping website and you wanted to put a link to all your books relating to that site. Then you could catalogue, let's say all your books on bee keeping. :)
Nani, my catalog is down on the right side. There are like 5 random book covers. Last I checked, the book you gave me "Lost Tribes" was there :)
Yeah I hear you Tamara. I think some of the larger categories would still be time prohibitive to completely catalog. War & military history would take up a few 100, then there would be regular history, starting about 60 Million years back, (another few 100), then genetics & evolutionary Biology (only a couple of dozen), Economics (about the same), then those dictionaries, general science & reference for about a dozen or so. Then we move on to the fiction side of the house... Cheers & Good Luck, 'VJ'
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