Book-organising online
I've been updating my Goodreads library, mostly because it's there and they do have competitions occasionally for books, which is all good. I have no pride when it comes to free books. Also my shoulder has not been good and this has been pretty low-impact stuff on my arms. I've been on a knitting/crochet ban and while the little knitting I've been doing hasn't impacted too much and I plan to start getting more done, slowly and taking regular breaks, I'm still working on my goodreads library.
I don't think I'll be moving from Librarything as my main drug book organising tool any time soon. The data that Librarything has is better. I was also wondering about the recommendations from goodreads, unlike Librarything it has genre'd recs. So I input everything I have read this year, and 2011 and I'm working on 2010.
At this stage, with 9.600 books on Librarything (granted almost 1,500 are wants, and about the same on the TBR mountain); nearly 7,500 (1,000 to read, which is a mix of tbr and wants, which actually annoys me) and Shelfari where I have about 9000 books (which was an info-dump from librarything a few months ago and honestly I'm still cleaning that up, it imports everything as read.) I guess I have some commentary rights.
Librarything is my favourite, not for adding books, which can be a bit of faff, unless you're doing a bunch of adds. The Goodreads and Shelfari ability to just push one button, nice. However where librarything wins for me is in my control over the book once it's in there. I mean I can add books in the hard way, by actually inputting all the data and I've done a few of those, more in the first few years of use than now, now they can pull data, using a Z39.50 connection, which is a library standard, and they do. While goodreads classes books as Read/Reading/to read that often is a little rigid. How do I "read" a knitting book that's all patterns? There's a huge difference between the books I refer to often and own and the books I review on my knitting blog, those book reviews take a lot of work and it's not just a flick through with post-its to find a pattern I want in the sun. Or a cookery book? What about the ones I started, will never finish, because I abandoned them and gave them back to the library quickly in case I felt a need to burn them? So this is where the different "collections" and tags in Librarything work for me. It's a workhorse tool, it occasionally can help in work when someone is looking for something obscure, a search on Librarything can help throw it up.
I do love the % through the book and quick update and ability to comment as you go that Goodreads offers. The recommendations is a little off. Taking 3 I'd look at occasionally: Paranormal: of 50 recs, 9 already marked as read, 4 want to read. Fantasy again of 50; 5 read; 9 already marked as wants. SF (a horrible mishmash of proper SF, Fantasy and horror) of 50; 10 read and 7 already marked as wanted. Several of the recs on the list were later pars of serials that I hadn't read book 1 of, or I have book 1 on my tbr pile.
If you want to follow the most live info, with reviews as I go, Librarything is the place to find me, I'm possibly going to cut and paste the reviews eventually, probably starting with the most positive as there has been some negative stuff that's happened to people who post negative reviews on Goodreads.
And why have I spread the data? I had an account on the, now disappeared into the aether, Bibliophil. And I prefer to be slightly spread thinly than find things disappearing, though I think all three of these are going to be long-resident on the internet, I'm not assuming anything.
Crossposted with my Google plus account.
I don't think I'll be moving from Librarything as my main drug book organising tool any time soon. The data that Librarything has is better. I was also wondering about the recommendations from goodreads, unlike Librarything it has genre'd recs. So I input everything I have read this year, and 2011 and I'm working on 2010.
At this stage, with 9.600 books on Librarything (granted almost 1,500 are wants, and about the same on the TBR mountain); nearly 7,500 (1,000 to read, which is a mix of tbr and wants, which actually annoys me) and Shelfari where I have about 9000 books (which was an info-dump from librarything a few months ago and honestly I'm still cleaning that up, it imports everything as read.) I guess I have some commentary rights.
Librarything is my favourite, not for adding books, which can be a bit of faff, unless you're doing a bunch of adds. The Goodreads and Shelfari ability to just push one button, nice. However where librarything wins for me is in my control over the book once it's in there. I mean I can add books in the hard way, by actually inputting all the data and I've done a few of those, more in the first few years of use than now, now they can pull data, using a Z39.50 connection, which is a library standard, and they do. While goodreads classes books as Read/Reading/to read that often is a little rigid. How do I "read" a knitting book that's all patterns? There's a huge difference between the books I refer to often and own and the books I review on my knitting blog, those book reviews take a lot of work and it's not just a flick through with post-its to find a pattern I want in the sun. Or a cookery book? What about the ones I started, will never finish, because I abandoned them and gave them back to the library quickly in case I felt a need to burn them? So this is where the different "collections" and tags in Librarything work for me. It's a workhorse tool, it occasionally can help in work when someone is looking for something obscure, a search on Librarything can help throw it up.
I do love the % through the book and quick update and ability to comment as you go that Goodreads offers. The recommendations is a little off. Taking 3 I'd look at occasionally: Paranormal: of 50 recs, 9 already marked as read, 4 want to read. Fantasy again of 50; 5 read; 9 already marked as wants. SF (a horrible mishmash of proper SF, Fantasy and horror) of 50; 10 read and 7 already marked as wanted. Several of the recs on the list were later pars of serials that I hadn't read book 1 of, or I have book 1 on my tbr pile.
If you want to follow the most live info, with reviews as I go, Librarything is the place to find me, I'm possibly going to cut and paste the reviews eventually, probably starting with the most positive as there has been some negative stuff that's happened to people who post negative reviews on Goodreads.
And why have I spread the data? I had an account on the, now disappeared into the aether, Bibliophil. And I prefer to be slightly spread thinly than find things disappearing, though I think all three of these are going to be long-resident on the internet, I'm not assuming anything.
Crossposted with my Google plus account.