I don’t know about you but I come from a family who loves to read. I own more computer books then I can fit in a shelf. My mom is collecting first editions like its going out of style. If its Science Fiction, my brother has read it. As for my dad, well if its scientific or has the word news or television, thats a yes. Enough with the family history, how can I organized my book collection, right.
About 2 months ago I started thinking of building a website to show off your book collection along with ways of organizing and sharing amongst friends and family. So my mom gave me this link, Delicious Library which solved my problem by building a amazing website plus much much more! Not only do they categories your books, but also movies, music, even video games. The best part, little to NO data entry! I know right, you ask but how. You use the UPC code located on any but every item. As long as your a MAC FAN and umm got on of those isights attached (not on your head PC!), you just take a picture of the UPC with the isight and like magic, it fetches the meta data and the rest of the information. One of the quotes that blew me away was, “At that rate the staff of the new downtown Seattle Central Library could work together to import all of their 1.4 million books into Delicious Library in just over 5 hours.”
Another quick site that I want to throw out there is Shelfari, who allows for building a online library of your books and uses a lot of cool ajax techniques to show them off.
Now, if someone can build my del.icio.us friend email link that would be awesome! Then again, i have started to convert people over to the dark Web 2.0 side.
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You might want to also give LibraryThing a try. LibraryThing is similar to Shelfari, but much larger (which means more social connections - we currently have over 11 million books cataloged, and over 158,000 members) and with better data (we search over 75 libraries worldwide for data, whereas Shelfari relies solely on Amazon’s data)…