Tuesday Thingers - My Library
“How many books do you have cataloged in your LibraryThing account? How do you decide what to include- everything you have, everything you’ve read- and are there things you leave off?”
After going through all of my books with a printed list of my library, I was finally able to eliminate the books I sold back to Half Price Books and have come up with 679 books in my LibraryThing Library. This includes books I own, books I want, a small number of books I have borrowed, and books I have gotten rid of on BookMooch.
In the beginning I used LibraryThing solely to catalog my books. Not so much because I was a catalog purist, but primarily because that is what I thought it was for, nothing else. Then I discovered ‘talk.’ With talk came endless recommendations, so I had to start putting wishlisted books in there, because I would never remember them all (134 right now). Yes, it bothers me a little that it screws up my connections, etc., but I am far too lazy to switch back and forth between accounts to make a separate wishlist account.
Then I got my first Early Reviewer book. It was TERRIBLE. Terrible. I got rid of it as soon as someone agreed to take it off of my hands. However, I couldn’t remove it from my library, otherwise my review would disappear, thus harming my chances for future ER books. Thus I started leaving some books in my library that I did not plan on keeping, in order to leave reviews and ratings on LibraryThing. I’ve also been leaving in my library books placed on BookMooch, so that I can keep track there as well of what I am having mooched.
Someday, maybe, we will get collections, and then I can keep all of these things separated out.
Whether or not you use LibraryThing, how do you organize YOUR books?
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May 27th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Sadly, I don’t organize my books - just on my bookshelves.
May 27th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
I’m pretty new to LT and don’t have that many on there. I’m just not a big organizer- but I do like LT. My books are on shelves and in stacks on tables all over the house.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:58 am
For my TBR I just use a list on Amazon. Can’t organize it as well as I’d like, but I think I’m a “LT purist” so I can’t imagine adding them to my library
(Well not till I get them all!)
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:43 pm
I’m new to LT as well so I only have like 20 books on it right now. I need to add books that I want on there as well. My books aren’t too organized at the moment.