September 18, 2005
Cataloguing personal libraries
Another think on the "to-do" list: Ellen Moody, who I seem to be quoting a lot lately, writes that she has begun to catalogue her personal library online, with Library Thing. Sharon, The Little Professor and Language Hat are also new users. It sounds very useful, though as others have pointed out, it would benefit from drawing on an even wider field than Amazon.com and the Library of Congress, and to be of real use, it needs to recognize different editions. Though apparently one can add or amend items manually.
Anyway, it will be some time before I start playing with this.
Tim Spalding, the creator of Library Thing, also offers MothBoard, an interesting idea: transitory discussion boards for ephemeral topics or projects.
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