dieseltaylor Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 I have come across this site: http://www.librarything.com and, given I can upload and download and speedily enter my books will be using it fully. As I and my friends are getting to the stage of running out of shelf space AND duplicating book purchases in the military field [and terry pratchett novels] At least with our miltitary sections on-line borrowing might be easier. And rather than a Google spreadsheet where I have to enter all the details just using an ISBN number works most of the time. And of course you can read the reviews. Vital Statistics Members 1,187,999 Books cataloged 55,294,111 Tags added 68,171,977 Unique works 5,620,103 Reviews 1,158,893 Works reviewed 424,560 I have to own up to having 3 unique books out of the 50 odd added so far. And to show it in action you can view the progress so far. My friend added 200 military books in an afternoon. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dieseltaylor 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 Member since May 2007: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/JonSowden , incl 9 unique. IIRC, you can view your page through your phone, which is handy when browsing in bookstores. You might also want to check out Bookmooch. it's a good way to get rid of books you no longer want, and gain ones you do. Unfortunately it isn't terribly strong on military history yet, although I have got a few. http://bookmooch.com 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted September 13, 2010 Author Share Posted September 13, 2010 You should have mentioned it earlier!!!! I have added it to my sig - though undecided as to whether I ought to add the direct link ** George Blackburn you rate very highly, as do others at Amazon. I have searcheed my local library system and he is not even listed as an author!! : ( Or at my adjacent library system!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 Very interesting. I have seen similar sites like shelfari. I can see a couple of books on my shelf that are not listed in librarything yet either. But I just get so bored adding them all... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted September 13, 2010 Author Share Posted September 13, 2010 I now have 9 unique books out of 71 : ) Childish of me but what the heck. As for the time taken, compared to to buying duplicate books it is a small price to pay. Partuicularly if you can use a application to check when browsing book shops [second hand of course] I see some of mine have been scanned, much as I like the concept of scanned info some of them are buggers to read. I am re-writing gradually an Allied post-war report on Japan available as scans from a couple of sites so that is is legible [and searchable] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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