I love LibraryThing. I’ve got more than 4100 books listed in my account. Granted, I’m a book collector so I already had a database of my collection so I just exported the ISBNs from that database and imported them into LibraryThing. That doesn’t mean that I’ve tagged every book, or that my whole collection is in there (that original import didn’t include any non-fiction) but it’s still a big help. Now I can access my collection on my cell phone to answer that age-old question: Do I already own this?
And, did you know that if you’ve published a book or two and someone has cataloged your titles in LibraryThing you can get your own LT Author page?
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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