LibraryThing

For the past few days, I've been scanning in books to LibraryThing. I have some 740 books entered in at this point. I'm about a third to half done with my books. Well, with the number of boxes. Depending on the contents of those boxes, I could be more or less done than I think (e.g., if the boxes have mostly mass markets, i.e., more books per box, then I have more books to scan than I think).

Adding books to LibraryThing is going really well. I'm so happy to have a CueCat (less happy to buy one after I threw one out a few years ago) to scan books since most of my books are fairly recent editions (1990s and later) so they mostly all have bar codes.

I do have some four or five boxes of books from when my grandmother taught in a one-room schoolhouse in the 1920s that I've been dreading and avoiding. I may need to enter these books by hand (not search by hand, but ENTER by hand, meaning I have to key in all the data about the book). I won't know for sure until I start searching for them whether or not they're available.

Another cool thing is that I am a LibraryThing author! What does this mean? Well, it means that I'm a published author who uses LibraryThing to catalog my books. So, if you're a huge fan of my books, you can search my catalog to try to see what makes me tick. Or something like that.

You can use my catalog through my profile page if you're curious what books I own. For instance, if you sort by most popular, you can see that we have multiple editions of the Harry Potter books. Or, you can see how many editions of Jeff VanderMeer's City of Saints and Madmen I own.