Comments on: 4 Great Ways To Keep Track Of Your Expanding Book Collection

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.

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.

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