July 01, 2006
New on the blog...
I had left open on my computer a web page for a new web enterprise, LibraryThing, because I thought I might get around to investigating it someday. Charlene, always an early riser, got up this morning, saw it, and went BONKERS! (She's always dreamed of being a librarian.) By the time I woke up she had entered over 100 books...
It's one of the most the most addictive things we've encountered. I've put a blog-widget of our library on the sidebar, displaying random covers of books we own. Scroll down a bit, and you will see them. In fact, you can even see what shelf they are on. (I can just expect some future commenter to tell me I'm wrong and that I've obviously failed to read book X, which I have on LivingRoom 11!)
And if you click on a book, and then buy it from Amazon, we get a percentage, once our Amazon Associates membership activates...
Update: LibraryThing is apparently having server problems due to rapid growth. So sometimes it just isn't there. (I knew I shouldn't have told anyone about it.)
I've actually been keeping track of every book I've read since 2001. This seems like it would be perfect, if it had one feature - a way to track when you started and finished the book. I just keep an excel sheet right now, but it's nice to sort it by the dates and see what I was reading when, say, we were on our honeymoon, or last summer, or whatever else. I didn't notice that feature in the tour - does it include such a thing?
Posted by: Ethan Hahn at July 1, 2006 01:18 PMThere are fields for: "aquired" "started" and "ended," for each book. Just enter a title, then click on Edit (the little pencil). Also a comment field.
But I have not yet noticed a way to sort by those fields, if one wanted to do so. Maybe there is one hidden...I imagine more things like that will be added.
Posted by: John Weidner at July 1, 2006 02:36 PMOh jesus. Now there's something else I own scads of that I have to start listing. I even gave up sorting them by alphabet -- now I just stand there staring at the bookshelves, wondering where my copy of whatever went.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at July 1, 2006 02:47 PMJust think, you could be sitting staring at the LibraryThing site, wondering what that title of that book was..
Posted by: John Weidner at July 1, 2006 03:50 PM*sobbing*
Posted by: Andrea Harris at July 1, 2006 06:04 PM
