Tuesday, July 15, 2008

LibraryThing Hmmmm ....

I suppose if you really had the desire to catalogue everything you've ever read and everything on your bookshelf, then LibraryThing would be a useful website. Me? I have a tendency to read books (particularly in a series) until I've hit the end of the series and have to wait for more and then forget about them at which point I usually go off in search of new books to read and generally don't feel like I've lost out on anything by not keeping track of the books I've read. Whew! When I do happen across a book that I'd forgotten about but now found again, it's like a little "Yippee!" in my head because I've discovered an old friend.

Enough about me though. LibraryThing was fairly user-friendly although my one gripe would be that you couldn't select multiple books at one time in the search list. I basically gave up entering loads of books because I have so many from the same author. I became frustrated with having to type that author's name in again and again and click on each of their books and cycle through the pages again. It would be much easier to have a little tick box and add them all in at once.

That said, here's my LibraryThing catalogue. It's not complete and far from interesting, but then again, is anything??

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