Online Library
Today marks a significant milestone for LibraryThing. More than 250,000 books have been cataloged online through this new service.A free account allows you to catalog up to 200 books. A paid lifetime account allows you to catalog any number of books. At present and for the forseeable future lifetime accounts cost just $10. I conservatively predict the revenue will enable me to recline all day on an enormous pile of gold.When I left college 40 years ago, I had more books than shoes. (That says a lot about legacy shoe freak who started off to Northwestern with 17 pair!) Through the years those dozens of books proliferated, disappeared, reappeared, and special collections waxed and waned. If there'd been a service like LibraryThing (if there'd been PCs!), I could have done a better job of building and maintaining the different collections, some of which are incomplete and some contain duplicates simply because I no longer know which books I have, have had, or I'm still seeking.[books]
posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 9:00 AM
4 Comments:
Interesting.
So it is like an online database where you not only can keep track of your own books, but let others know about it (ego booster fer shur). And you can see who else has the same books, who has books you don't (useful if it is a library) and who is like, totally one who puts the phile in bibliophile.
I can dig it.
Ahahah! As usual, Paula, you crack me up. Can I use that line about "phile" sometime? I'm thinking "...who put the X in X-Files" or something like that...seriously, I probably wouldn't include "The Story of O" in my online books list. Oh, did I say that out loud?
Well, thanks Georganna. I've just finished entering 75 books (only some 2-3K more) and spent an hour or so doing it. You can't just put this stuff out there and think there will be no ramifications. It's hard enough for a poor bibliophile to stay focused when working in a bookstore or surfing the book blogosphere, let alone have a wayward blogger leave a tempting land mine for me to trip over.
If I don't have a blog entry today, it's your fault. By the way, where's your library catalog?
I'm too busy writing in the blog to catalog my books! Don't blame me for your compulsions or addictions. Did you notice that the same set of letters spell "booklust" and "bookslut"?
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