AKICILJ: Do I want LibraryThing or....?
What online book management app would you suggest for me?
I want to build bibliographies of non-fiction books, one list each for several different topics.
I want to be able to search, browse and sort each of my lists.
I want a list to include:
** books I own
** books I have borrowed from libraries or friends
** books I've seen on Amazon or other online places
I don't have a barcode scanner, but I don't mind typing in ISBNs.
For each book, I want "my database entry" to store quite a bit of info -- some that is retrieved from general knowledge and some that I store in personal annotations.
The things I must have -- that I hope can be retrieved for a given ISBN:
a. Basic info (title, author, publisher, date, edition)
b. Look-up keys: ISBN, call letters in LOC and Dewey
c. Table of Contents (I really hope this is retrievable!)
The things it would also be nice to be able to retrieve at will:
d. Reviews from traditional gatekeepers (such as NYTime Book Review).
e. Reviews from individuals (a la Amazon) -- a blog search would be awesome.
f. Recommendations of related books.
The things I want to store in my personal annotations:
a. Source (Do I own it? Where did I borrow it from? Wish listed to buy?)
b. Date I added book to my list, and dates on my annotations.
c. Free-form text for commentary.
d. Ratings or priority rankings.
Features for privacy and sharing:
a. Be able to keep some of my personal annotations private.
b. Have a widget to put on my blog that automatically pulls info from my lists
(ideally, it takes into account my personal data, especially dates and ranking).
c. It's OK if the lists are stored "in the cloud" --but I'd like a way to get a CSV file or other form of backup.
Thanks in advance for your recommendations!
AKICILJ = "all knowledge is contained in LiveJournal"
I want to build bibliographies of non-fiction books, one list each for several different topics.
I want to be able to search, browse and sort each of my lists.
I want a list to include:
** books I own
** books I have borrowed from libraries or friends
** books I've seen on Amazon or other online places
I don't have a barcode scanner, but I don't mind typing in ISBNs.
For each book, I want "my database entry" to store quite a bit of info -- some that is retrieved from general knowledge and some that I store in personal annotations.
The things I must have -- that I hope can be retrieved for a given ISBN:
a. Basic info (title, author, publisher, date, edition)
b. Look-up keys: ISBN, call letters in LOC and Dewey
c. Table of Contents (I really hope this is retrievable!)
The things it would also be nice to be able to retrieve at will:
d. Reviews from traditional gatekeepers (such as NYTime Book Review).
e. Reviews from individuals (a la Amazon) -- a blog search would be awesome.
f. Recommendations of related books.
The things I want to store in my personal annotations:
a. Source (Do I own it? Where did I borrow it from? Wish listed to buy?)
b. Date I added book to my list, and dates on my annotations.
c. Free-form text for commentary.
d. Ratings or priority rankings.
Features for privacy and sharing:
a. Be able to keep some of my personal annotations private.
b. Have a widget to put on my blog that automatically pulls info from my lists
(ideally, it takes into account my personal data, especially dates and ranking).
c. It's OK if the lists are stored "in the cloud" --but I'd like a way to get a CSV file or other form of backup.
Thanks in advance for your recommendations!
AKICILJ = "all knowledge is contained in LiveJournal"