noteworthy wrote:
This is a neat site.

Don't be surprised if you should sense a heavenly light around you about halfway through the tour...this is awesome!

-janelane, running out of shelf space

noteworthy wrote:
This is a neat site.

What is LibraryThing?

Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things.

What's good?

* Searches Amazon, the Library of Congress and 60 other world libraries.
* Get recommendations. Connect to people with similar libraries.
* Tag your books as on Del.icio.us and Flickr.
* Put your books on your blog.
* Export your data. Import from almost anywhere too.

If you want to explore the site, try the zeitgeist and the BookSuggester. For example: enter From Dawn to Decadence and you'll get a recommendation for The Metaphysical Club.

it's weird how people have similiar ideas
i've spent the last couple of months learning bits of PHP and mySQL in part because I want to build a database of my books.
i figured that whenever i go around to someone's house i like to scan through the titles of their books and since i have a personal site i could stick a list of all my books and music on a database for people to browse
ahh convergent evolution
i still intend to go ahead with that if only for the intellectual exercise but it is fasinating to see this site and i'm tempted but i'm not sure i want to do the data entry twice
it would be nice if once i've done the database i could create an xml file and send it to them

adam wrote:
it's weird how people have similiar ideas
i've spent the last couple of months learning bits of PHP and mySQL in part because I want to build a database of my books.
i figured that whenever i go around to someone's house i like to scan through the titles of their books and since i have a personal site i could stick a list of all my books and music on a database for people to browse
ahh convergent evolution
i still intend to go ahead with that if only for the intellectual exercise but it is fasinating to see this site and i'm tempted but i'm not sure i want to do the data entry twice
it would be nice if once i've done the database i could create an xml file and send it to them

Make the database in OOo Base or MS Access, then import it to each. It says they allow importing from anywhere.

I pretty much do this somewhat with paperbackswap.com It is a great book swap site based on ISBN - btw - they are updating the ISBN fields to hold more numbers - a lot of the book sites might be wonkers for a while until it is over.

Anyway, I love paperbackswap - not only can I connect with other people into the same stuff as I am - I get books free. All I have to do is give one for one away and pay the shipping cost. It equals out to about 1.76 per book.

It has a place for your library where you can post all your books, and your reviews, and your 'to be read' list of books you've got but have not read yet.

Anyway, I'm not affiliated with them - just use the site and love it. Any book lover might so I thought I'd mention it.

(I checked this out - it costs if you have over 200 books. That's not as many as it might sound if you are a bibliophile. I've got about 900 JUST up for sale or to give away. That's not even including my current 'keep' books.)