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 :(