I am insane. ([info]ladytabitha) wrote in [info]grammargasm,
I was reluctant to post this here, since I didn't want to suck away everyone's free time, but far be it for me to not share:

LibraryThing - "Catalog your books online."

From the About page:

A free account allows you to catalog up to 200 books. A paid lifetime account allows you to catalog any number of books. At present and for the forseeable future lifetime accounts cost just $10. I conservatively predict the revenue will enable me to recline all day on an enormous pile of gold.

*returns to cataloging books*
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[info]onceupon

September 23 2005, 17:44:03 UTC 6 years ago

Oh, goodbye free time!

That is SO cool.

Thanks for linking to it!

[info]khrysta

September 23 2005, 18:31:50 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you so much! Awesome. ^_^

[info]danea

September 23 2005, 18:37:50 UTC 6 years ago

It's super shiny! I just found it last night, and have already exchanged several emails with the creator re: ideas for it. He's looking at making it smartphone-accessible, so we can have access to our library any time we're out & about--used bookstores, flea markets, friends' houses, etc.--if we can't remember whether we have a copy of that volume of a series, frex.

I also suggested: a redundancy check, at least for the same ISBN, without actually preventing you from adding a redundant book; the ability to tag multiple books at once, so that, say, if you just got a new bookshelf and are using tags to identify where in your library a book is located, you can easily mark everything that was 'office closet' as 'reading nook'; and individual book privacy, in case you don't mind sharing most of your library but there are certain guilty pleasures you just don't want to publicize to all your friends & family you share your LT library with.

Anyone got more ideas? He's very open to hearing them. He's in the process of speeding it up, he did not expect 175,000 books in the first month, but as soon as he's got the capacity, I'd say it's certainly worth a boingboing pointer, at least!

[info]ladytabitha

September 25 2005, 15:55:00 UTC 6 years ago

Could you, if you're so inclined, post this top-level?  This sounds like a great thing!

I'd like it to do what LJ does - I can enter my tags in any order, but it shows up in my entry in alphabetical order, and removes repetitions.  (Actually, don't know if LT removes repetitions, but nice to put in.)

I'd also love to be able to put in my own book images.  For instance, Amazon.com doesn't have the book image for Basic Computer Games, but I can find it easily via Google.

Hmm... I could do that, since I have a place from which to host images, but I wonder how he does it...

Dammit!  Not another project!!  :)

[info]greyaenigma

September 23 2005, 18:42:16 UTC 6 years ago

Since nearly 90% the books I bought at the Go Congress were duplicates (only some intentionally so), I clearly need something like this accessible away from home.

And a free account just isn't going to cut it, not even for my Go books.

[info]mrfishes

September 23 2005, 19:48:50 UTC 6 years ago

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whoa.
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[info]rawsocket

September 23 2005, 20:55:04 UTC 6 years ago

This rocks! Thanks for the link.
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