Catalog your books with LibraryThing
Submitted on September 24th, 2005 by admin
Filed under Books and Services
It seems like every day, there’s a new service popping up which offers to help you catalog your media, in this case books, thanks to LibraryThing. The service is free and completely web-based. SImilar to Reader2, it searches various online databases in order to match the title you’re searching with an existing one. While most services stick only to Amazon, LibraryThing will also search through the Library of Congress database, giving you much more refined and detailed information on books, including many which are no longer in print or rare. As far as databases go, it offers the most thorough catalog with over 160,000 books. A membership will let you catalog up to 200 books, but a USD10 lifetime membership will get you unlimited access.
My favorite features are the extras which include a widget so you can add your collection to a blog, and an Amazon bookmarklet to make it easy to add new books to your list. One of the more interesting and useful extras, is the ability to import your current collection from Delicious LIbrary, or export your list to CSV format which could then be read Excel. Though it has a somewhat unfortunate (though descriptive) name, LibraryThing is an awesome tool for those of us with large book collections.
September 24th, 2005 at 7:55 pm
It’s a great application, but I think that I will stick with Delicious Library, simply for the ease of having not just books, but also music and DVD cataloged in the same place.
September 24th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
Why not give Listal a try then, John?
September 25th, 2005 at 8:12 am
I think I will.
I wasn’t aware of it till just now. Just read your post about it, and am taking a look at listal.com.