{"id":3151,"date":"2005-09-20T14:09:18","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T18:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/09\/20\/3151.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:53:06","slug":"books-i-got-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/09\/20\/books-i-got-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books! I got books!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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&#8217;s much nicer to have &#8217;em. I&#8217;m all in favor of public libraries, but if you&#8217;ve taken off your trousers and the bath is running, it&#8217;s good to have a Shelf of Your Own.\n<p>So it occurs to me to ask&#8212;have any Gentle Readers used the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\">Library Thing<\/a>? Or something like it? Honestly, I&#8217;m not all that delirious about the tags and sharing stuff, but I&#8217;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&#8217;t want to get started on it. I&#8217;m a trifle down on the links to Amazon, who I don&#8217;t particularly like, but I can live with those if the look-up is good. I&#8217;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&#8217;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.\n<p>Anyone? Anyone kludge their own?\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s much nicer to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17535,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/17535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}