Here's a question for those of you who are voracious readers... a demographic I imagine someday rejoining: How do you keep track of all your books?
Do you keep a spreadsheet on your computer? A handwritten list in a notebook? Just keep them organized on a shelf in a specific order? Do you loan or trade books often enough to have to keep track of that activity as well?
Of course, it's inevitable that the camraderie and interaction sparked by books would be a likely match with the exposion of online services, so there are several that are aimed at meeting the needs of book lovers and their friends. Our own Linkmeister is a passionate user of LibraryThing, which has been around forever. I've now been toying with some newer "Web 2.0" entries into the space, including Shelfari and GoodReads. Even Google has added a 'My Library' feature to its Google Book Search service, though it's not quite as pretty nor easy to share with others.
Have you tried these? Would you try these? Just how do you keep track of all those titles?
We've had other threads that touched on this a bit:
Do you keep a spreadsheet on your computer? A handwritten list in a notebook? Just keep them organized on a shelf in a specific order? Do you loan or trade books often enough to have to keep track of that activity as well?
Of course, it's inevitable that the camraderie and interaction sparked by books would be a likely match with the exposion of online services, so there are several that are aimed at meeting the needs of book lovers and their friends. Our own Linkmeister is a passionate user of LibraryThing, which has been around forever. I've now been toying with some newer "Web 2.0" entries into the space, including Shelfari and GoodReads. Even Google has added a 'My Library' feature to its Google Book Search service, though it's not quite as pretty nor easy to share with others.
Have you tried these? Would you try these? Just how do you keep track of all those titles?
We've had other threads that touched on this a bit:
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