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[Jon Tseng]

My latest fascination...

The Library Thing... a dead easy way to catalog and compare your book collections.

Of obvious applicability to those with burgeoning cookbook collections - this is mine: http://www.libraryth...ery&view=jtseng

Extremely easy to use and surprisingly addictive.

Enjoy

J

[lapin d'or]

I started my library thing list last autumn but have only added about one fifth of my collection so far.

Hope the link behaves - here is the web address to my cataloge:
http://www.libraryth.../jill_farrimond

New Years resolution is to get it up todate!

I will post back when it is complete.

[Jon Tseng]

Kewl

Trick is get a laptop with wireless internet so you can wander around and catalog books as you do so

And add tags as you go along - seeing how parts of the collection relate via tags is part of the beauty of the system

J

[Kerry Beal]

The perfect addition to this would be a barcode reader. Just scan the barcode and add the book to your list.

[Jon Tseng]

The perfect addition to this would be a barcode reader.  Just scan the barcode and add the book to your list.

You mean one of THESE?

[Kerry Beal]

The perfect addition to this would be a barcode reader.  Just scan the barcode and add the book to your list.

You mean one of THESE?

Perfect, so this means you don't need any additional software to interpret the barcodes?

[Pweaver1984]

Jon have you got the barcode scanner? Does it work ok?

Looks like a good site! Will add mine soon.

[Jon Tseng]

Oh no idea about barcode scanner. haven't got one. looks cute though.

Putting the books in by hand remarkably quick. Took two evenings to do mine - very useful they are also plugged into amazon.fr which takes care of a lot of the more obscure frenchy cookbooks

ta

J

[lapin d'or]

I am finding that I can get most of my books entered pretty quickly by typing in the ISBN.

Only my older stuff is taking longer and some items have had to go on manually.

I just wish I could be more consistent with my tags, I would never make a librarian.

I reached the free book limit and had to subscribe - opted for the $25 dollars for life subscription so I am hoping the web site has a healthy life ahead of it.

It is making me think about how I physically store my books but that is another thread.

[Pweaver1984]

Jus spent the last 2 hours doing my list which is here

Got to the maximum, and will probably pay the life fee and do the rest.

Paul

ETA - Have now paid the $25

Edited by Pweaver1984, 16 March 2007 - 09:11 AM.