books books everywhere...

[hellison]

Browsing thro Amazon at lunchtime, I was going thro the 'recommendations' bit, mostly weeding out books I already have which they persist in still recommending. With some tho I was having trouble remembering whether or not I actually did own them, or even if I had ever read them (eg some of the later endless series of Krondor ones).

Also I have wanted for a long long time to get some sort of catalogue of all the books together, so the question! Does anyone here use/know of any kind of intarnet or downloadable cataloguing thing?
I've heard of a couple, but the only one I could remember the name of was Bookcrossing, which is more of a list of ones you've gotten rid of - tho may do that too, as I have at least 2 copies of some.

Mind you I have no idea when I'd find TIME to do it, but a few every night (or while at work, hence online version ;p) should get somewhere at least. It'd be nice to get some idea of what I have and possibly even stop me from adding even more for a while ;p

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[tyrell.livejournal.com]

Every single one seems to be for cataloguing actual libraries, and costs money.

This is free, don't know if it's any good:
http://www.itlocation.com/en/software/prd60801,,.htm

[hellison.livejournal.com]

That looks interesting, poking about on google has turned up http://www.bibliophil.org and http://www.librarything.com, which also look like they might do it.

More Poking to be done!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Downloaded that, it looks simple and handy. Also does dvds & cds !

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

RE; the later Krondor books - if you don't have em, don't get em, they're total poo, I reckon!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've read a couple of them, but I can't remember off the top of my head which ones, they all kinda merge...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

it does cost some money, but when i get home i'll find the site for the thing i really liked the trial version of (but, yes, have never gotten round to actually buying). i have this great fear that if the house burnt down i'd never convince the insurnace to replace my lovely books unless i have a list...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

insurance, even. not sure what 'insurnace' is...

[hellison.livejournal.com]

this is also a great fear of mine, I have so many, it would be bloody hard to produce a list after they'd all GONE

gnah, the very thought of it!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

i get the sweat of fear about that - because, after all, it'd be almost fun to go and buy new clothes. the only non-book things i'd be crazed about losing are old photographs and letters and (i am so sad) the contents of my hard-drive.

but, gnn, to replace books i've had since i was a wee thing? that'd be HARD.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Losing photos would be a total disaster. And of course since these days most of them are on the hard drive, can't afford to lose that either! ANd letters?

And the BOOKS?? *curls up in a corner and cries*

[kake]

LibraryThing! (It's down at the moment, but when it's up it's really good!) It even has its own livejournal community, librarything.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Ah so that's why I couldn't get at it! That's the one I think i'd heard of before but couldn't remember the name of.

So it's good then?

[kake]

It's very good! mirrorshard uses it too. I'm not using it for all my books, just for the cookery ones.

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

And I only catalogued my nonfiction books, on the basis that there were ridiculousmany of the others. It is, indeed, very good.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ravenmagic is mine, so you can look through the results once it's back up.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

oh dear, this is way too much fun ;p I started thinking, I'll just do the books closest, to see...
61 so far and if I had time I'd keep going ;p

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/hellison

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

If these are your books you have at home, then I'm not doing it. At the last count we had something like 1,200 or something insane. Life's too short!

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

I've got a few of the Collectorz bits - books, music and movies. Although so far only the movie one has much in it.

It works for me, and makes flashy little catalogues like these.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

That looks pretty funky too ;) Now all I need is a spare week or so to do the books, then I can do the filmz!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

aha, that's exactly what i was talking about: if you go here you can get the free trial version (a paltry 100 books, pah!) but the whole thing is only €39.50.

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

Or you can go really nuts, and get a little barcode scanner for whipping through your books and adding them all in one go :P

[hellison.livejournal.com]

The wossname tyrell linked to is a v. basic thing, but does much the same without the pretty pictuers and is free ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

yeah, but do you get a BARCODE SCANNER? what's that? no?

i thought not. :p

[hellison.livejournal.com]

no :p but then not all my books HAVE barcodes. so NYER

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

points pointedly at icon!

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

Now now, little nerds in their nests agree...

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

Bah, all you need is a ruler and a black biro!