Library Thing

[watervole]

I've finally succumbed to Library Thing.  I've been playing around with Visual Bookshelf on Facebook and thinking "Why can't you give books a rating, etc?"

So, I joined Library Thing, because it can.

It'll be  a very slow process inputting books as the shoulder will only let me do a few at a time, but I don't think I'll need to input that many for it to start giving me good recommendations.

Comments

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Do you have a webcam? major_clanger set it up as a barcode scanner, and can enter books on Library Thing in the time it takes to swipe one :-) It doesn't work so well on US imports or older books though.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Only books with ISBN numbers, though. So many of mine are too old for that...

[twinfair.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is impressive. How did he do this?

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

(Sorry for the late reply to this)

It was actually Booxter that I used, although you can export a book list from it to Library Thing. Booxter takes the input from a webcam, reads the barcode and then queries various online databases to find the book details. I found that it read about 80% of books right away, and then most of the rest it could find the details of if you entered the ISBN or Library of Congress code manually.

[twinfair.livejournal.com]

This seems to only be available on the Mac. Oh well :(

[paranoidangel]

Ooh, I didn't know it did recommendations. I started using it because I have some books here and some at home and it's useful to know what I have and what I don't have.

Although I have been meaning to go back and give my book ratings.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

It even does anti-recommendations... though I haven't tried that one.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

What's your identity on Librarything? I'd like to friend you there.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

JudithProctor

Displaying my ignorance

[dumain.com (from livejournal.com)]

On the subject of books have you ever read a book called Pavane by a Keith Roberts. I stumbled upon
someone's top ten SF books page and it was the only one I didn't recognize. As it is apparently set around Corfe Castle I figure you're moderately likely to have read it?

Re: Displaying my ignorance

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I don't know if watervole has read it, but its most recent publication was in the SF masterworks series and it is very, very well regarded.

Re: Displaying my ignorance

[watervole.livejournal.com]

It was a long time ago, but I remember it. It's an AU with road trains and other stuff.

[julesjones]

When my stuff finally arrives and is unpacked, you can have a play with my Cuecat...

(My account is here: http://www.librarything.com/profile/JulesJones )

[melodyclark.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, first Facebook, now Library Thing. (Mel hangs head) I have no self-control on the web.