More to the point, I’ve been slowly adding books as I fish them out of storage.

I have joined, but I’m right up against the limit where you have to pay so I won’t be adding more for a while.

i’m in ur groop reedin ur books

Yes! I asked to do this on the ILB forum but on the wrong thread.

I joined!

Most commonly shared books (weighted): The cold six thousand : a novel by James Ellroy (2)

Is this the site where you post books you don’t want and then others ask for them?

This is the site where you post books you’ve read and find out other people have read them too.

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

Hurrah! I have joined! I likes Library Thing.

I have to remind myself to start adding nonfiction books. Most of what I have on there right now is novels/plays/poetry.

i joined, but all my books are in storage. so all i remember is 48 of them.

Is this the site where you post books you don’t want and then others ask for them?

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.

There’s also Book Crossing, where you can dump your unwanted books in public places, and have people hunt for them.

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.

The search function stinks on this thing.

I haven’t sussed out the difference between weighted and unweighted, but...

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

I’m in

I will think about this for something to do during Xmas break doldrums.

I just joined but I’ve only added about 60 books so far.

I have joined, but I’m right up against the limit where you have to pay so I won’t be adding more for a while.

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

HI DERE.

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

I am trying to figure out a way to list all my books by LC call number, because I don’t do enough of this at work.

ISBN seems to work the best, if you have the book in front of you.

I am trying to figure out a way to list all my books by LC call number, because I don’t do enough of this at work.

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

Yes. I totally did it! But, if the book’s not in the Library of Congress, you, as a regular user, can’t add LC call numbers, even if I could create them accurately.

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.

Heavens, never take your work home with you that much.

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.

ISBN seems to work the best

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.

There’s no hope for me, I’m afraid.

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.”

My closet is organized by color.

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.

One of my projects post Nanowrimo is to use LC to catalog my books. Fortunately, my girlfriend is a librarian :)

It’s a sign!

I spent last Christmas break entering books. It was awesome!

Madman! Well done.

We tried to enter them all as we packed them to move. It was madness. Now, they are all on shelves and we have no idea which are not in LibraryThing. But I have the week off between Christmas and New Year’s! Also, I’ve got a USB barcode scanner now...

Also, I’ve got a USB barcode scanner now...

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.

Same with us (lots of old books). I want to know more about this camera/scanner! The last project I did for Flu0r was a WinCE barcode scanner/computer thing (which was a nightmare for various reasons), which got me a fancy one to take home to play with for a few weeks.

I’m right up against the limit where you have to pay

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

Jaq, they were selling “cat scanners” on the LT blog a while back.

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.

For your older, non-ISBN books, try searching the Library of Congress catalog by title instead of Amazon.

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

Cas, yes! I was given a CueCat by ex-functional-manager. Very basic and adorable and now both cat and mouse on computer.

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.

E-mail sent. Suggestions (worldcat AND selecting search options) made.

I want to know more about this camera/scanner

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

I have a small pile of about 10 books that are impossible to find on LT (one is a a book in what I think is Chinese, and the only info I have about it is that it relates to architect Louis Kahn, since his name is in English on the spine) (and one is a PKD book in, I think, Hungarian). I am so far too lazy to enter them by hand.

If the mood to type strikes you, you could check the “other 60 sources.” I’d try the Yale catalog as they have a HUGE library.

Get your Mac

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