8 Responses so far

1. 1. Kristine Smith on Jun 7th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

   I joined a few weeks ago, and have managed to enter about 25 books. How are you entering, by hand, or do you have some sort of bar code reader?

2. 2. tobias buckell on Jun 7th, 2007 at 4:34 pm

   Kristine, there is scanner you can buy from LibraryThing:

   http://www.librarything.com/cuecat.php

3. 3. Elijah on Jun 7th, 2007 at 6:18 pm

   Thank you very much for the nod, by the way.

   The CueCat seems like it would be a fun thing to have if I didn’t actually get so much perverse enjoyment out of entering in every little detail. That and I’m broke.

4. 4. kwasi on Jun 8th, 2007 at 4:29 am

   I have been avoiding getting an account there to preserve my sanity. Sooner or later I will have to give in though

5. 5. Ken McConnell on Jun 8th, 2007 at 7:26 am

   I’ve been using something similar called Shelfari for some time now.

6. 6. Mary Dell on Jun 8th, 2007 at 11:33 am

   I got the cuecat (it’s only $20) from them and it was able to scan about 4/5 of the stuff I threw at it. The rest, I either entered the ISBN by hand or (for really old stuff) keyed in the title. Before I got the scanner I was using the digital camera to take pictures of my shelves so I could pull up the pic on my monitor and key in the titles all in a row without…not too bad but the scanner’s definitely better.

   I entered about 400 books in one day once I got the scanner…I’ve got 900+ in there now and just one bookcase left to enter! Woohoo!

7. 7. Kristine Smith on Jul 11th, 2007 at 10:18 pm

   better late than never–thanks for the tip about the barcode reader!

8. 8. tobias buckell on Jul 11th, 2007 at 11:18 pm

   No problem!