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[ceo]

People have been remarking on the same issue with the transition from vinyl and CDs to digitized music. Poking through someone's iPod seems a lot more invasive than browsing their CD shelves.

I had been planning on putting my CDs in binders and storing them, since I almost never play them, until I had an interesting conversation with a friend that was sparked by browsing each other's music collections.

[catya]

librarything? :)

[magentametrix]

For Librarything to keep up, they'll need a way to easily catalog our e-books. The barcode scanner won't help with that!
(Or they may have already found a way - I haven't been back in awhile. I did notice they just sent out an upgrade announcement, to allow up to quantify the physical size/appearance of our books. That doesn't sound like they're making the e-move, to me.)

[catya]

I use it to track what I read, regardless of medium (which for me is mostly paper-i-own and paper-i-don't own, but even so.). There are some good tools for them sharing that.

I agree that they are not set up for ebooks though.

[magentametrix]

Or we'll go from quantity to quality. When we have only one bookshelf with our all-time favorites, favorites of both content and binding, the experience may be richer, for being more condensed.

BTW, I love the blue chair in your picture. Looks like a perfect reader's chair, as long as there's a light just out of frame on the left. I collect pix of libraries and book collections, so thanks for the link!

[entrope]

I have similar thoughts about that chair!

[metagnat]

I don't think paper books will be replaced till ereaders are so cheap and durable/disposable that you don't mind leaving them in your shoe on the beach while you go swimming.