Catalog my books with librarything

done…at least i think i am. i’m pretty sure i cataloged every book i own that i have read. now i just have to read the rest so i can catalog them too!

I’ve decided on LibraryThing and have added a handful of books to it. It is slow going though, and I’ve lost interest for a while. I do love the community feature though – a whole book-mad community to interact with – woohoo! And it doesn’t feel as commercial as Amazon, which is nice. But unless I want to be lugging armloads of books around in a categorical manner, it ain’t gonna be finished anytime soon.

I’ve heard good things about librarything and I’d like to catalog my book collection. Now Google does offer a free books-you-own cataloging option, but there’s no community feature or list-sharing (that I know of yet) and this does appeal to me. Amazon’s lists are free and useful too…hmmm.

I don’t know how long it will take to do it, and of course whether I’ll love the librarything features or not, but I’ll see how I go. I also had a thought that having this book list could be useful from an insurance perspective. I’m not sure how e-books would work in; I have thousands of e-books electronically stored that I read on my pocket PC.

I am both a book lover and a gadget/technology lover, so having loads of books available to read from something that fits in my pocket is fantastic. I can’t wait until a colour version of an e-reader is available at a reasonable price – I was enviously cross that Amazon’s Kindle was only available in the States and not in Australia. I would’ve gone for the Sony e-reader, but it’s just WAY too expensive at the moment. So – my $65 second-hand pocket PC will do for now!

i have over 300 books cataloged now!

i have every book i’ve read in 2008 cataloged. i’m still working on cataloging everything else as i remember. i’m sure i have at least 50% what i read listed. i’ll be able to finish whenever i unpack all of my books. i also completed 7 books on my 999 challenge. only 74 more to go!

i have over 200 books listed so far!

today i signed up and imported all the books from my wishlist, and books i have bought on amazon. it will take awhile to list all of my books it will be worth it!

Everything in my bedroom is cataloged: 2,203 titles.

There are still a few things in the hall, and the basement, but as far as I’m concerned… I did this. This goal is laid to rest.

I have one stuffed shelf left to enter, mostly of books without ISBN, or that need to be added to the catalog manually.

There’s still the issue of all the books left at my father’s house. I think it’s safe to leave them off, since I have no way of entering them now. Maybe if they migrate to my house, I’ll enter them as they come.

Lastly, this leaves me pondering both my magazine and comic collection. It would be crazy to try to enter them all, but my inner librarian is giving me mean “organizational” looks.

Do you catalog magazines and comics?

What a great way to start my “library”—with a virtual one! This also helps me declutter and organize. wow, once I start this I will be killing three proverbial birds with one stone.