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Jen L.
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Posted: Aug 27 2006 at 9:05pm \| IP Logged

Okay, I seem to have totally missed hearing about this cool website until last night. It's called LibraryThing.com. Today I searched for it hear and found it mentioned in 3 different threads over the past year.

I guess I might be the last person to have heard of this site, but in case I'm not, I have decided that it needs its own link because it looks soooo cool. It is a personal library cataloging site:
*Searches Amazon, the Library of Congress and 45 other world libraries.
*Show it or keep it private. Put your books on your blog too.
*Get recommendations. Connect to people with all your obscure stuff.
*Export your data. Import from almost anywhere too.
*Enter 200 books for free, as many as you like for $10 (year) or $25 (life).

Here's some information from Jenn and others (scroll down)

Here's a review summary from PCMagazine that reads (in part):
If you're a book lover and not too secretive, visit as fast as you can.
Keeps a convenient online catalog of book collections. Lets you browse other collections. Connects you with other book lovers. Gives book recommendations.
You can't expose your online book catalog solely to specific friends and family—it's either completely private or completely public.

Lastly,
here's the complete PCMag article

Looks great!

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KC in TX
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Posted: Aug 27 2006 at 11:06pm \| IP Logged

I'm considering using this. If anything, I can keep it private and know by the punch of the keyboard if I own that book. We have a vast library and it's hard to keep up. Also, my dh loves to receive books for occasions and I admit to not always knowing what he owns (those war history books all look alike

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Posted: Aug 28 2006 at 9:39pm \| IP Logged

I'm so glad that you brought this back up!!!
I was just thinking about this when I saw that I had several duplicate books. We have so many books that I think this will be a great idea. Now I just have to find the time to catalog them!

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