LibraryThing

LibraryThing - WOW what a great idea! Although I can't see it beating a good online Library catalogue, but on a personal level I can see it has a great many uses for individuals, clubs & societies, etc.

What to make my catalogue of …[MORE DECISIONS!] -- a tough decision, but I finally decided to make my catalogue of just my collection of Nora Roberts books. When I first started reading her books a few years ago I decided I really enjoyed her books and wanted to read everything she had written! I especially enjoy her trilogies and series, so I set myself the task of reading all her works I could find, so armed with a list download from her website I started to work my way though it [I’m down to less than ten still to find]; most came from our wonderful public libraries but over the years I’ve come across many older issues in op shops & at fairs & fetes. SO my LibraryThing catalogue is the collection of just the Nora Roberts books that I own. I found using LibraryThing was very easy, from setting up your account to adding your first book and then your 10th, 20th, etc then its midnight and you still want to add more!

Some of my books were Australian paper back editions and not findable on Library Thing by ISBN so I quickly learnt to find another edition by author/title, add the entry and then edit it to my Australian edition, for some of them I could even find the same cover on an US or English ed so I could put the right cover picture on my book entry too! I also had to find covers for some of the Australian editions and upload them!
As I said earlier I like to read series so any catalogue I make has to list a series and part no somewhere! and I found it didn't really have a space for this, but I did find if I put a series note in the comments field, it showed up in my lists! SO YES there is a little flexibility in the entry format. And I still have to go back and add more tags, comments summaries etc!!!

The next day I couldn't resist starting a new catalogue of all my partners MG Midget books. Another interesting exercise in a small collection of special books, some held by a few others scattered around the world, some of the workshop manuals and parts catalogues listed nowhere else and needing to be added manually!

Now hopefully you can see the link to both these collections on LibraryThing added to this blog!