Library Thing
Well! This is a pretty cool idea, something I've been sort of passively hoping that someone would create for quite a while now. It appeals deeply to my librarian soul and merges nicely with my lazy-ass self.
It basically allows you to enter in title and author (or even just one or the other) of books and it'll do all the tedious stuff like find publisher and edition and blah blah. The nice part is that it isn't just reliant on Amazon.com -- it also uses Library of Congress data, so your average out-of-print title will still be found. Click on the library card at the end of any record to see the data it pulls. Cool! And $10 for lifetime membership? Even if it went out of business I could download all that data, save hours upon hours of typing, and export it to spreadsheet! That's totally worth $10.
Before I moved into storage I created the most rudimentary of spreadsheets of all of my books; just title, author, and format (i.e., hard cover, trade, PB, outsize) -- and I did it mostly because I didn't want to wonder for three years if I owned this book or that book already. I then downloaded it into my Treo and figured I was all set for random book sales and the like -- save me from myself. But this might be the bigger solution I've often hoped for.
I just wrote to the guy at Library Thing to see if he'd add the ability to import data via spreadsheet, since that is what I have already. I don't really want to copy>paste 2,500 times to get my stuff in there. Once I build my library I'll link to it here. Maybe!
It basically allows you to enter in title and author (or even just one or the other) of books and it'll do all the tedious stuff like find publisher and edition and blah blah. The nice part is that it isn't just reliant on Amazon.com -- it also uses Library of Congress data, so your average out-of-print title will still be found. Click on the library card at the end of any record to see the data it pulls. Cool! And $10 for lifetime membership? Even if it went out of business I could download all that data, save hours upon hours of typing, and export it to spreadsheet! That's totally worth $10.
Before I moved into storage I created the most rudimentary of spreadsheets of all of my books; just title, author, and format (i.e., hard cover, trade, PB, outsize) -- and I did it mostly because I didn't want to wonder for three years if I owned this book or that book already. I then downloaded it into my Treo and figured I was all set for random book sales and the like -- save me from myself. But this might be the bigger solution I've often hoped for.
I just wrote to the guy at Library Thing to see if he'd add the ability to import data via spreadsheet, since that is what I have already. I don't really want to copy>paste 2,500 times to get my stuff in there. Once I build my library I'll link to it here. Maybe!