LibraryThing rocks
I just ran into LibraryThing. It. Is. So. Cool.
You can quickly create a catalog of your entire personal library of books. Complete with tagging! I know this is super nerdy and only for the book lovers, but my gosh I am just digging this. This is my new timesink.
Ever since I got a Mac, I’ve been contemplating Delicious Library. No more. This’ll do. And if you’ve already got Delicious Library, you can import your data to LibraryThing!
BTW, this is me on LibraryThing (so far, I’ve just cataloged the books sitting on a table in the living room).
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9 opinions for LibraryThing rocks
David Emmons
Sep 15, 2005 at 9:01 am
Pretty cool….except delicious will handle books, movies, Cd’s, games, and you can use a iSight camera to enter the barcodes…no typing, plus it’s integration with Mail and iCal are really nifty as well. But then it’s not free either.
Utter Doul
Sep 15, 2005 at 10:11 am
Check out Reader 2 at http://reader2.com/. Its similar; I be interested in a your opinions and comments in case you have used both these services.
Simon Heap
Sep 15, 2005 at 4:49 pm
Thanks Bren, I’ll give this a try. I’ve been using endnote bibliography (www.endnote.com) to keep track of all my articles. I find it really cool for this as you can download the reference (including abstract) when you download the article from university data bases. It’s also meant to be useful for referencing work in your own articles (but yet to get it working nicely!)
Lifehacker
Sep 16, 2005 at 6:16 am
Catalog your books with LibraryThing
Web application LibraryThing lets you catalog all the books you own adding Flickr-like tags to organize your collection. Add book titles by entering a title and viewing search results from the Library of Congress or Amazon. LibraryThing adds the…
Lifehacker
Sep 16, 2005 at 6:20 am
Catalog your books with LibraryThing
Web application LibraryThing lets you catalog all the books you own and use tags to organize your collection. Add book titles by entering a title and viewing search results from the Library of Congress or Amazon. LibraryThing adds the…
Michael Langford
Sep 16, 2005 at 8:34 am
I signed up for the librarything…however I have issue all the links the site produces are associate links to HIS associate account, even after you pay him your $10….
Steve Jenkins
Sep 16, 2005 at 9:31 am
A similar thing I’ve been using (http://www.listal.com) does books but also dvds and music.
KC
Sep 17, 2005 at 9:01 am
Michael,
I noticed that too… too bad I didn’t come up with that idea. It’s a great way to get a *whole lot* of extra clicks and probably lots of sales.
Seems just a bit dirty to me…
Greg
Sep 17, 2005 at 11:01 pm
I would also give http://www.listal.com a thumbs up. Very nice design and handles multiple types of items besides books.