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 Monday February 12 2007

Library Thing

I was browsing Gord Sellar’s site the other day, when I noticed he had this block of book covers on his side bar. Intrigued I clicked through and found Library Thing. Library Thing allows you to catalogue every book you own or have read. You can then display them on your blog or export the data to excel or csv files.


I’ve already added 200+ books. It is very easy to add books, just type in the isbn number or title and author and search takes care of the rest. I did have to manually add a few titles but that was also easy. You have a number of ways to share your info on your blog. You can have a list, a set of book covers, using tags have a category cloud or author cloud. It’s really quite exciting. I’ve set up a library page on this blog displaying a random 100 books from my library; click here or use the link on the top menu bar. Just for kicks I’m going to add a tag cloud and an author cloud to this entry and a random book covers cloud.




Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday Feb 12, 2007 at 09:02 PM
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gordsellar wrote 50 words  on  Wednesday Feb 14, 2007  at  10:31 PM Korea (South)

Yeah, I love librarything. I’m actually tracking my current reading on listal, where I’m also tracking my movie-viewing and music-listening, but as for cataloging stuff, librarything is just outstanding. Glad you’re enjoying it. If you keep on enjoying it, the lifetime membership isn’t very expensive, so you might consider it. smile

Sean.

Sean. wrote 18 words  on  Thursday Feb 15, 2007  at  05:36 AM Korea (South)

Gord,
I bought the lifetime membership about 90 minutes after signing up. Will check out listal as well.

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