PETER ORGANIZE BOOKS NOW!
Ever since Neil Gaiman mentioned LibraryThing on his blog, I've been totally hooked. This website brings out my inner librarian with a vengeance. When I was little I would spend hours upon hours cataloging and organizing my books, creating a library that, for some reason, no one ever seemed to visit other than myself. I would stand and proudly survey my intricately-organized shelves of books, and then either find some reason to remove them and start the process anew, or re-organize them in some even more intricate and arcane manner. I swear, if I were put in some in-disarray library and paid to organize and maintain it I would be happier than a hog in mud-heaven. I have no idea why the minutae of indexing and organizing books interests me so. It's engrossing to the point where I stop paying attention to what time (or day) it is, or anything that happens in the outside world.
Basically, LibraryThing allows you to maintain a catalogue of your personal library along with tags, ratings and reviews, and then links it with all of the other user's libraries. You can see how many other people have books in common with you, read and write reviews and reccomendations, join groups and discuss books and other topics. The site also aggregates all the data from its logged libraries and creates associations between books dependant upon how many times they show up together. This allows it to suggest or unsuggest books based upon a given title. The unsuggester is a bit more wooley, but tons of fun to play with.
I have my own account and have been tearing like mad through my books trying to log them all. Unfortunately I hit a wall today when I discovered that unpaid accounts have a limit of 200 books (201, actually)... and I'm not even close to being halfway through. I'm seriously considering simply shelling out the money for a lifetime account just so that I can finish logging all these things into one tantalizingly socially-networked index. Ooooommmmmm..... Iiiis sooo goooood...
Basically, LibraryThing allows you to maintain a catalogue of your personal library along with tags, ratings and reviews, and then links it with all of the other user's libraries. You can see how many other people have books in common with you, read and write reviews and reccomendations, join groups and discuss books and other topics. The site also aggregates all the data from its logged libraries and creates associations between books dependant upon how many times they show up together. This allows it to suggest or unsuggest books based upon a given title. The unsuggester is a bit more wooley, but tons of fun to play with.
I have my own account and have been tearing like mad through my books trying to log them all. Unfortunately I hit a wall today when I discovered that unpaid accounts have a limit of 200 books (201, actually)... and I'm not even close to being halfway through. I'm seriously considering simply shelling out the money for a lifetime account just so that I can finish logging all these things into one tantalizingly socially-networked index. Ooooommmmmm..... Iiiis sooo goooood...