I started a ILX group on Library Thing

Like lastfm without the radio stations or something as far as I can work out.

You're thinking of BookMooch, but LibraryThing has added in a couple of book trading sites to make linking easier. It's what got me to pick up LibraryThing again and add more books.

Awwh, some of the records I made show up in Library Thing. Sadly, no one else has a the book on Brazilian clowns that I cataloged. Shame.

Top shared books (weighted)
- Rip it up and start again : postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds (5)
hoosteen, illiterati, jaymc, Quartz_City, spittake

- Sign 'O' the times by Michaelangelo Matos (2)
jaymc, Quartz_City

- Performing rites : on the value of popular music by Simon Frith (2)
illiterati, spittake

- Spacemen 3 & The Birth of Spiritualized by Erik Morse (2)
mollyd, Quartz_City

-Lost in the Grooves (2)
hoosteen, spittake

Same here, but I've seriously been considering paying.

Unlike what it says, I do own more than 6 books. I'll try to get around to it soon.

Heavens, never take your work home with you that much. (Thankfully I don't place anything of mine on reserve.)

Also, it must be assumed that the regular person who's cataloging their own books probably doesn't care too much about its shelf listing. Or am I wrong?

I need to get out more.

I can't help it! If I see a list of books, I want to see call numbers! There's no hope for me, I'm afraid.

Totally. I did about half my list just picking whatever the first one listed was by title before I tried finding my exact editions this way. Don't know if I'll be anal enough to go back and do that for everything, but still.

Tsk tsk. You need to take my friend Stripey's advice -- as she says, "I refuse to organize my books and CDs at home because I do things like that at work all day."

Oh trust me, the books are far from organized in my apartment. My cat Biff is sleeping on a pile of them as we speak.

It's nice to see how they'd theoretically be set up, but I'm not going to start attaching any labels to their spines any time soon. I feel dirty enough for copy-cataloging my own books on here. Oh well.

I've been using the built-in camera on my new laptop to scan bar codes. Only catch is that a non-trivial number of my books predate bar codes.

what's the limit? i don't want to pay, but i also don't want to get halfway through and then get stopped.

Derrick, the limit is something like 100 or 200? I forget. I was given a membership mysteriously, but I have to say it is pretty fantastic and perhaps worth the money if you have a nontrivial amount of books.

I haven't checked, but is Worldcat.org tied into LT yet? That would be another super way to find your book.

Library of Congress has worked well for finding our older US books, and the Scottish National library has been the best resource for most of the other oddities we own, for some reason. If Worldcat.org isn't there Molly, suggest it on the blog.

I've been using this program to catalog everything and it works with an iSight or the built-in MBP camera.

This is what would thwart me, immediately, with that program.