Am I Book or Not?

[enochs_fable]

For my fellow bibliophiles:

LibraryThing versus GoodReads. Which one and why?
(I'm on goodreads, but I'm looking at librarything, and it looks pretty cool.)

Comments

[libation]

I like goodreads better but couldn't tell you why.

[grapefruiteater]

I'm on LibraryThing and am not familiar with GoodReads. Sorry for not being more helpful.

[enochs_fable]

So what do you particularly like about LT?

[grapefruiteater]

You can sort the view of your library a few different ways, and I really like seeing who else has my same books. Also--library nerd alert!--there's an option that shows LC classification numbers. So interesting.

[meranthi]

I like LibraryThing, but I've seen GoodReads. I like the tagging and classification (I'm a librarian at heart) and being able to sort easily.

[enochs_fable]

Are you on either?

[meranthi]

Sorry. Yes, I'm on LibraryThing. And I have a CueCat, which makes things *MUCH* easier to catalog. I really like it so far. We've done all our non-fiction, which is honestly the harder stuff, since a lot of it is pre-ISBN and certainly pre-barcodes.

[enochs_fable]

Ooh! You can use CueCat to catalog for LT? Or do you have ReaderWare or something else, instead?

I've often wondered about the non-fiction, since yeah, same problem for some of it (particularly when I was pondering trying to do it for my synagogue.)

[literal_alchemy]

I don't use either, but Librarything did give me a free T-shirt at PLA.