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Fri, 01 Jul 2011
LibraryThing.com
Well, I joined this site a few months back, and sort of half-heartedly added a few books.
Most I added by creating a text file containing ISBNs and a few notes. It was able to grab the data it required of amazon.co.uk.
A few books it didn't seem to know, so I had to add by hand. I used a cameraphone to take shots of the covers for a couple of them, and
this seemed to work surprisingly well.
At the moment, I've just added one shelf of books, plus a number of others that were within reach at the time (aka: on the floor next to me).
If you want to add more than 200 books, you need to pay up. This is only US$25 for 'life time membership', though the fact you can't
currently export your library to a file does worry me a little. I'm not really certain I'll ever have the time to add all my books, either.
Oh well, for the moment a small subset of my library can be found at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/rockhopper_penguin. It may or may not get more complete.
One other thing I'm hoping to try is their Free Advance Review copies. I've added my name for a book, and hope I'll get one. There are, of course,
more people who want copies than there are copies...
posted at: 01:50 | path: /books |
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