R.I.P. Dewey Decimal System

As if my life weren't geektacular enough, I've finally joined LibraryThing. If you haven't found it yet, it's that handy place where you can catalog your books, and um, do...yet to be discovered...other things.

Their recommendation database thingy still needs some work. (I entered Joy Luck Club and they recommended Louis L'Amour, but hey, it is a beta site). And I'm still browsing their book reviews. I noticed that their most prolific reviewer, bluetyson, has posted a cranium-busting 8,948 reviews! Um, either this kid is on meth, or in a prison cell with WiFi, or possibly both. I mean, who has time to read 8,948 books, let alone write their reviews? Even at five a day that's um, er...it's a LONG time.

LibraryThing. Do you use it? And if so, what for?

Comments

[Daniel Hatadi]

Yeah, <a href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/DanielHatadi">I'm</a> on it too. Nothing a like a good fit of manic cataloguing to quieten the OCD impulses.

[Daniel Hatadi]

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

[jamie]

Wow, Daniel--that's a lot of books. Nice selection of Zen books too. I have Zen and the Martial Arts. It's an old one by Joe Hyams, but it's a classic.

[shesawriter]

Hi Jamie,

Nope I don't use it, but I'll definitely check it out. It looks interesting.

Tanya

[Jaye Wells]

I signed up last night as a way to procrastinate. It's really cool, but I wish there was a way to choose more than one book from an author at a time, instead of having to search each on separately. I think I got about 60 of my faves entered.

[TL Hines]

I love me some LibraryThing, although I don't catalog as much there as I should. http://www.shelfari.com is also worth checking out. It operates on the same basic principle--but seems a bit more graphically-driven (not a bad thing, of course). LibraryThing seems to have a larger base right now.