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29
Tuesday Thingers: Cataloging
2008 at 5pm Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
Today’s question from Marie at The Boston Bibliophile is: Cataloging sources. What cataloging sources do you use most? Any particular reason? Any idiosyncratic choices, or foreign sources, or sources you like better than others? Are you able to find most things through LT’s almost 700 sources?
The only cataloging source I really use is LibraryThing. When I discovered it last month (how did I not know about it sooner?!), I did a quick inventory of all the books on my home bookshelves and entered those. Then I started remembering other books and adding them. My policy is to only catalog books that I have read or am in the process of reading. I keep a separate list of TBRs on my desktop rather than adding them to LT and tagging them as such. I also recently discovered Shelfari, but I haven’t been utilizing it nearly as much, even though I think their layout is prettier. If you use either (or both) or these resources, you can view my profile by clicking the appropriate link under “Where Else to Find Me” over on the right. So far, LT has had everything I’ve looked for, so it works for me. I expect that as I become more deeply involved with the online book community, I’ll discover other resources, and I’m looking forward to reading the other responses to this question.
Now, a few unrelated notes:
1) Two very wonderful books came into the world today! Both The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (my review is here) and The Lace Reader (read my review) were released today. I loved them both and strongly recommend that you head over to your bookstore of choice and purchase them immediately. I’d love to see these authors succeed and be recognized for these outstanding works.
2) Based on responses to the poll from my Sunday Salon post, I am currently reading Queen of the Road. So far, it’s OK…review to come tomorrow or Thursday.
3) There are only 3 days left to ENTER TO WIN MY ARC GIVEAWAY OF THE GARGOYLE!. So head on over to that post and leave a comment to be entered. You’ll receive an extra entry for posting about it on your blog, and one entry for every click-through that brings people to Readerville.
Happy Tuesday, everyone!
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I’m looking forward to ‘the guernesey….’ which I’m getting through Amazon! And I’ve heard great things about ‘the lace reader’ so I’ll probably be getting my hands on that pretty soon.
If I didn’t already have ‘the gargoyle’ I’d be entering your giveaway!