YHB has at last opened up some of the boxes of books and filled a few shelves. The comfort books have come out. I was surprised by how not-awful it was to live without them, but it’s much nicer to have ’em. I’m all in favor of public libraries, but if you’ve taken off your trousers and the bath is running, it’s good to have a Shelf of Your Own.
So it occurs to me to ask—have any Gentle Readers used the Library Thing? Or something like it? Honestly, I’m not all that delirious about the tags and sharing stuff, but I’ve been toying with the idea of cataloguing our books, and it seems like a good and cheap way to do it. On the other hand, if it sucks, I don’t want to get started on it. I’m a trifle down on the links to Amazon, who I don’t particularly like, but I can live with those if the look-up is good. I’ve heard that there is a program for the iSide that allows you to get a cheap bar-code scanner and scan the code, and then it populates the record. I’d pay a bit for that, I would, but it would (a) have to work on the Windows system (as well as anything works on the Windows system) and (2) be able to export to a reasonably portable database format.
Anyone? Anyone kludge their own?
chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,
-Vardibidian.