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*
September 23 2005, 17:44:03 UTC 6 years ago
That is SO cool.
Thanks for linking to it!
September 23 2005, 18:31:50 UTC 6 years ago
September 23 2005, 18:37:50 UTC 6 years ago
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!
September 25 2005, 15:55:00 UTC 6 years ago
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!! :)
September 23 2005, 18:42:16 UTC 6 years ago
And a free account just isn't going to cut it, not even for my Go books.
September 23 2005, 19:48:50 UTC 6 years ago
whoa.
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September 23 2005, 20:55:04 UTC 6 years ago