Also made of awesome is goodreads, where quite a lot of people I know in fandom have accounts. During one of the moves, I catalogued all my books into Library Thing as a unpacked. It took days. Also, I had a bunch of really old books whose ISBNs had been assigned to newer in print books, so that was a fun little adventure to figure out. To say nothing of the foreign language books it wouldn't recognize. But! Catalog! /geek. :P
I will check out goodreads -- I'm being very good about scanning covers and putting them in there so others on Library Thing who have the same book can grab a correct cover.
I have a huge number of Alice in Wonderland/Looking-glass and Lewis Carroll-related books, so it's funny to see "duplicate" come up over and over, even if one book was published in 1904 and another in 1958. But oddly, I'm the only one with Gilbert Adair's Macmillan-press version of his "third-in-the-trilogy" Alice book, Alice Through The Needle's Eye, so it doesn't sync up to the several hundred others who have it as published by two other publishing companies (the covers are also different, so I know it's not an error on my part.) I'm trying to figure out a way to point to other versions and say, "see! same book!" to my own library. Any insight?
I m on library thing. I think I got to the free limit and decided that I didn't have the umph to poke through the thousands of paper backs stacked three deep.. but it is cool, to see how many other people own the same book.
Oh, surely I shall hit the free limit soon. It's like being given a little heroine by a pusher, isn't it! Must have more!
I did two shelves in two days, seventy-something books. It's kind of awesome when you have the ONE AND ONLY copy of whatever book you've put in there. I'm looking forward to seeing my huge Alice in Wonderland-related collection all together on a list when I do a search using my tags.
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I have a huge number of Alice in Wonderland/Looking-glass and Lewis Carroll-related books, so it's funny to see "duplicate" come up over and over, even if one book was published in 1904 and another in 1958. But oddly, I'm the only one with Gilbert Adair's Macmillan-press version of his "third-in-the-trilogy" Alice book, Alice Through The Needle's Eye, so it doesn't sync up to the several hundred others who have it as published by two other publishing companies (the covers are also different, so I know it's not an error on my part.) I'm trying to figure out a way to point to other versions and say, "see! same book!" to my own library. Any insight?
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I did two shelves in two days, seventy-something books. It's kind of awesome when you have the ONE AND ONLY copy of whatever book you've put in there. I'm looking forward to seeing my huge Alice in Wonderland-related collection all together on a list when I do a search using my tags.
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