I have almost all my books in plastic boxes in my garage/basement. I painstakingly went through each one and added them manually into Librarything over the course of a couple of months without a library wand or hand scanner. I love Librarything. I unfortunately did not add any tags for the majority of them until after they were already packed up again. The last set of books entered, I tagged as I went. I did finally make sure all books at least were tagged fiction or non-fiction (I think). Use the power-edit mode for this. I think that the tag clouds and author clouds are cool. I also like how I can print my list of books and view my collection in a number of ways. I did add three books today to my Librarything account. One other thing I like about Librarything is that if I want to look at my cookbooks, I go to the TAG tab and look at the alphabetical cloud and click on Cookbooks, and I can look at a list of all 23 cookbooks. Now, if I could only remember which box in the basement has the cookbook for my cranberry bread, I could die happy...
Ok. So I clicked on the link for libraries who librarything and tried the CT (Danbury) library on the list. I typed in "Damia" and it was cool. It listed tags for the book and similar books. This would be good for readers advisory.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
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Hi sskLibrarian,
Congratulations on getting all your books on LibraryThing - you are ambitious! I thought I was doing well to get all of my 2006 Book List online but I still have three or four bookcases full of books to add... someday...
I also use LibraryThing to keep track of what I've read - not just what I own. Here's a link to my catalog: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/pandalibrarian. The only books that I've tagged extensively are those that I've read.
Great use of Flickr, too. You're doing a great job on Project Play -Keep up the good work!
Jean
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