This week, after lots of stress and speculation and suspense, my company, Tellme, got sold to Microsoft. You've already done the work to tie to Amazon, this should just happen.Ĭheck it out, and let me know your username if you end up using it. Why isn't this being supported? I assume it's coming, that'd be a huge oversight to just focus on books, instead of categorized media. I've got bar codes on my DVDs and games and CDs, and they can be looked up at Amazon. My big wishlist is, do things other than books. I know this is the new, modern way of doing things, but it still isn't good for speedy usage. I don't want to have to edit each book and paste in the word "read", I want to click a checkbox. I want a column for "read/unread" with checkboxes, so I can quickly go through my whole library and click the ones I've read so I know which I haven't. I want a column for "loaned" with the person's name. The only thing I can't quite get my head around is ONLY relying on tagging. But thank god I'll only have to do it once. Any of my sci fi books from before 1980 don't have bar codes, so I have to hand type ISBNs, and even then a lot of books don't even have that, so I have to look them up by title and try to find the right edition. What's hilarious is my technical books took about 10 minutes with a cuecat, boop boop boop and they were all done. I've entered two bookshelves of books so far, with several left to go. So I won't be locked in like with some of those other solutions. They also collect a lot of cool statistics, which will be more useful once I've tagged and entered more, but it's fun to see how many of my books were written in each decade, etc.Īlso, importantly, you can get your data out in any number of ways, exported as CSV, RSS feeds, you name it. There's some really cool features too, like looking at my author cloud, which shows that a) I'm an enormous nerd, and b) I haven't gotten past G in my fiction categorizing. If you guys join up, you can add each other to your 'watch list', which is the equivalent of 'friending'. I can make my whole library available to the world, like so:Īnd you can all look at my books, ask if you can borrow one you haven't read, etc. It's also got a mobile interface so I can be in a bookstore and verify my home library that I don't have a book before I purchase it. This comes in really handy for things like "loaned" or "read/unread" or even "library/office" for location, etc. It's done Web 2.0 style so you can tag each of your books. Isn't this like delicious library, or mediaman, or X, you ask? No, not really.
It's a website where you can scan in your whole library of books by ISBN, and it tracks it all for you.
I've been playing around with Librarything tonight, and it is really amazing.
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