Comments | lexical_closure: I didn't think I'd break 500

lexical_closure

I didn't think I'd break 500

Sep 13, 2008 16:21

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/anomie

758 books. I might have another box or two out in the garage.

Comments 5

ersigh September 13 2008, 21:55:06 UTC

Nice!

I still have a bunch more to add. You did see I friended you on that site, right?

lexical_closure September 13 2008, 22:09:41 UTC

Yep - I think I left you a friendly wave comment there, too.

ersigh September 13 2008, 22:35:33 UTC

Oooh. I didn't get notification.

science_vixen September 14 2008, 22:49:43 UTC

I keep planning to add my books to this, and then I take a look at my books and give up. Some time ago I traded in about 200 books, and it hasn't actually made a large impression on the whole collection.

Maybe I need to get a barcode scanner.

lexical_closure September 15 2008, 17:23:28 UTC

Definitely get a scanner - the "Add Books" entry box does the decoding of what the CueCat spits out for you, so if you can lay your hands on one locally (the site also sells them for $15). The only real issue with it is that right now, as far as I can tell, it only works with the ISBN bar code that has a 9 on the bottom left hand side of where the code starts - but most of my books have that on the back cover, and the paperbacks usually had one that wouldn't scan (with a 0 to the bottom left hand side) and one, on the inside front cover, that scanned just fine. (The bar codes that don't work will still scan, but LibraryThing doesn't find the book).

So much easier than hand-entering ISBN numbers. Although I have a few really old books that I had to hand enter, we did the last three or four hundred books with a CueCat. I'd still be entering stuff if we hadn't.