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By: Southern Gal

Southern Gal — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:16:25 +0000

Readerware is great – agree with Dave above. CueCat scans bar code and even entering an isbn isnt that hard. Also can manually enter books (i have lots of older pback and hardback books without ISBN.)

and the companion programs for cds and dvd/vhs are great too.

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By: jedo

jedo — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:10:32 +0000

I think LibroSpot is good, too.

By: nobrumski

nobrumski — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:34:33 +0000

I have been using librarything for a while and really like it. The thought of transferring my collection would just be too daunting.

Do any of the sites offer an option to subscribe to authors so you can see and track books that are coming soon from your favorite authors? I have had no luck finding something like this and I would definitely consider switching for this

By: jaide

jaide — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:35:53 +0000

shelfari is horrible. don’t even waste your time. i went to add something to the read list, and it highlights 3 selections when i only wanted one. i have been fooling around this website for 20 minutes trying to figure it out, and i quit.

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By: Dave P

Dave P — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:47:01 +0000

As one who reads voraciously and keeps all the books I read, I decided that it was worth a bit of money to semi-automate the process of cataloging my collection. I use Readerware which can input bar codes from books, look them up online, and catalog them in a database. If the book is found on Amazon, it will pull down additional information such as the cover image, rating, price, and description. The software is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Palm (so you can carry your database into brick and mortar stores). They also give away a bar code reader with the software.

http://www.readerware.com/

By: T.J. Mininday

T.J. Mininday — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:32:18 +0000

Wow, sounds like you have a great process down.

By: ElizabethN

ElizabethN — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:05:05 +0000

In addition to the web based applications above, I also use Alexandria on my ubuntu partition. Alexandria and library thing enable you to scan book barcodes with a device like the cue cat. Once I loaded all my books in the house into one database, I then exported & imported into the other applications. Now I just have to remember to update all until I figure out which one(s) I want to primarily use.

For my ebooks, I am currently using an open office spreadsheet as Alexandria requires me to manually load each book’s info into the database. I will eventually load the EISBN into the various applications and see which one(s) recognize the most books and use that app as my primary.

By: T.J. Mininday

T.J. Mininday — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:55:20 +0000

It’s amazing the amount of sites that people shell out when these types of lists are created. This was the kind of feed back that I was hoping for. Look’s like I’ll have a much bigger list next year.

By: T.J. Mininday

T.J. Mininday — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:54:12 +0000

Wow, another a couple of great ones to add to the list.

By: Jeenu

Jeenu — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:34:48 +0000

Sorry there was a typo – it’s tag-based

By: Jeenu

Jeenu — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:33:15 +0000

I’m finding it difficult to store and maintain my ebook collection. For example where do I put the book “Programming PHP and MySQL” – in web directory or in database? I think the best way to get this around is to use tags rather than a directory hierarchy. Does anybody know of a tab-based desktop-app (possibly Linux) that can do this?

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:32:55 +0000

I agree, I have delicious library and it lets you catalog books, DVDs (the main reason I got this app, and actually paid for it), games, and many more. And you can use your iSight or webcam to use it as a barcode scanner so that it’s quick and easy to import all your items. I believe it’s mac only though — which is all fine by me, my PC died about 3 years ago and I couldn’t have cared less, now it’s used as a great footrest under my desk

By: Satish

Satish — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:06:47 +0000

I like Librarything personally. Didn’t two of them.Thanks.

By: jennie

jennie — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:33:45 +0000

And weRead! Just changed names from BooksiRead – it’s a similar program that can be used on the website, weRead.com, and as an application on Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Orkut, and bebo.

By: Sean M.

Sean M. — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:06:16 +0000

I personally use LivingSocial.com

By: DC

DC — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:22:55 +0000

http://www.worldcat.org

It’s connected to local libraries everywhere so you can keep track of what books you have in your list are available at your local library. And if not there… the closest one… and say you need to make a list of books for a report or research project, Citations View makes quick work of any bibliography you may need.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:08:21 +0000

A new one to try is BookBump (http://www.bookbump.com/), which has a lot of potential, as does quillp (http://www.quillp.com/).

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:37:05 +0000

MediaMan (www.imediaman.com) has the ability to read barcodes. It can use a higher end webcam, hacked cuecat and unhacked cuecat, at the very least. There’s a new version out now that I haven’t checked out yet.

By: stefan

stefan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:12:12 +0000

Great list! Years ago I hard started a huge database of books, both in my collection and on my Amazon Wishlist. It got too big (I was downloading cover images) and unwield,y and gave it up.

I notice that LibraryThing allows you to enter book info via barcode scan – this would *greatly* speed up entry! Do you know if the other apps have this functionality? I’d prefer a mass entry instead of having to click ‘new book’, then enter the entry, then save it, then click ‘new book’….

Thanks!

By: Kevin Behringer

Kevin Behringer — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:55:48 +0000

I like the UI of Shelfari, but use Good Reads because they make it very easy to print out a list of a specific shelf/group of books. I like this because then I can take it with me to the bookstore when I’m looking for books.

If Shelfari made that easier (or if I found a way to do it) I’d probably switch.

Kevin

By: T.J. Mininday

T.J. Mininday — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:52:20 +0000

Wow, that looks even better then Libra, in a lot of ways.

By: T.J. Mininday

T.J. Mininday — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:51:55 +0000

I knew that this would get a bunch of responses. I should have pointed out that Libra is Windows only. I know there are plenty of options out there, I just thought I would point out some of the more popular ones.

By: Eyes

Eyes — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:10:11 +0000

Hey, you didn’t mention aNobii!

By: Jolene Anzalone

Jolene Anzalone — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:27:36 +0000

I LOVE Shelfari, it looks so nice on a blog and is really easy to use. The Librarian on my campus set one up for her blog, but unfortunately Shelfari is blocked by our school district filters. So, we ended up going with LibraryThing. Not as visually pleasing, but definitely gets the job done! Thanks for this post!

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By: Phil Brangers

Phil Brangers — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:16:18 +0000

http://www.delicious-monster.com/
Deliscious Library is amazing!

By: ravi

ravi — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:11:13 +0000

If you own a Mac, see the free Mac application “Books”:

http://books.aetherial.net/