My Photography Books on LibraryThing, so far…
Monday, March 5th, 2007
I’m having a lot of fun with LibraryThing and if you’ve not tried it I highly recommend it, it’s very well designed and this type of cataloging is highly addictive.
I wanted to harvest an URL for my book list so far but not the whole thing, just my photography books. The main url does not change when I show all of my books and then click on the photography tag but I was able to get a unique url when I searched tags for “photography.” That url produces this page: Photography.
Note: I have many more photography books to catalog, the “results” of clicking on this url will change as I put more books in.
Again, LibraryThing is a great tool and I predict it will easily become the flickr of books.
And it’s superfun if you can scan the barcodes in. A note: for some paperbacks, the ISBN barcode is the one inside the front cover, not the one on the back.
Thanks for the URL-sharing tip.
Elise: great tip, thanks. And thanks for recommnding this a while back, I wasn’t in the right state of mind to listen. It’s like crack though, once you start entering stuff you can’t stop. I ordered the scanner and that will be the end of me.
Me, too. Thanks for the recommendation. I started off life as a librarian and now I’m ‘reverting to type’! And with a Cat barcode reader, too! Sigh! Is this bliss or what?! I discover that I’ve bought exactly 1000 items from Amazon in the last 9 years, 828 of which were books. LibraryThing is a much easier way of finding out if I’ve already got a particular book than wading through the Amazon purchase history!! And now I can add the rest of my personal library!! And discover like-inded people, too. That odd book that probably nobody else in the world has read…can’t wait to discover who else really has read it.
Astryngia: Yes, not only the clean UI but the social parts of librarything are fantastic. I’ve taken a few days off but I plan to start entering all of the books in the house soon. My wife is a serious reader and we have a ton of stuff here. I’ll await the bar code reader for the heavy lifting though… Feel free to post the url to your library here, we can have some fun sharing.
Here’s me:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=rwanderman
Update: I got the CueCat barcode scanner from LibraryThing and it works like a charm. Plug it in, swipe back and forth on a barcode, hear the beep, done.
Nothing to install, just works. Very very nice. Now to get a ton of books in…