Week 6 Thing 8 Learning 2.0
http://www.librarything.com/
A personal book cataloging website. Where have I been? It enables you to create your own book catalog. You can catalog up to 200 books for free, then it's $25 for a lifetime. It's so much easier than keeping a library journal of books I've read in a word document! I wish it didn't cost anything, but look below for another cataloging website that's free!
I do like the fact that Library Thing pulls books from different sources and then gives you the publishing information, book jacket photo, even allows you to choose a whole series that you may have read instead of adding each book at a time. It does have some useful editing features of adding tags, and categorizing your books into collections.
I'm still trying to figure out how I can add multiple different books at once instead of one book at a time, some books in a series can come up individually and can be a pain to add them one at a time instead of all at once. So if anyone knows that trick please let me know!
Library Thing widget is customizable and it is fun to see it in a blog. Very useful! Library Thing also tells you how many other people have cataloged a certain book, who has the highest number of books cataloged ( it's about 47,000 in a personal catalog), it can connect you to other Library Thing users, help you find and save reviews and much more. So if you are willing to pay a fee you can have unlimited cataloging access!
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Another great personal library cataloging website is GoodReads. You can access it at:
It is very user friendly and you can add friends and see what they are reading. There is no charge for unlimited use that I know of and it comes with a bunch of library/reader friendly options.You may requests friends and see their reviews and book recommendations. You can also categorize your reading lists into various subject areas which is very nice. There are great control features as well so you can show as many book features, or as little as you want (publishers, ratings, reviews, dates read, dates books were added etc..)
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