Comments on: Find of the Month – July 2006 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/ It's that simple -- and that hard. And that inescapable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:44:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: eoinpurcell http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-375 Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:12:58 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-375 Which is the real value in the site I think. So many people using it so many ways!

]]> By: Cas Stavert http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-374 Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:50:02 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-374 Re entering books, it’s got a lot easier. Back at the beginning I pretty much had to manually enter everything which took forever. Now provided the book has an ISBN the system does it almost automatically. Of course it can still be time consuming if you want to get really anal and make sure you have the right cover recorded… Like you, Eoin, I started because I wanted to know how many books I have and things like how many books by which author, or when they were published, without having to go and physically count them every time.

It’s interesting the way you are using it, Bloglily. I think lots of people are using it in ways that were never originally envisaged, which is the beauty of it really.

]]> By: Amy http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-373 Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:43:14 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-373 Ah, cool – I just added a post on my site re: LibraryThing too – really a coolio thing

]]> By: bloglily http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-370 Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:04:12 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-370 what a great tip — you can harvest things from other people! I hadn’t realized that. I’m all for slightly lazy, by the way. I like to conserve my energy for reading and eating chocolate.

]]> By: eoinpurcell http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-369 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 23:13:26 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-369 Some people seem to have entered huge libraries. I am jealous of the time not only taken in entering the data but spent reading the books too! I wonder if when I am finished my list will be anywhere as large. I realised when I started that I have no idea how many books I have read/bought/borrowed and started in my life so far and I’d rather like to have a rough idea.
The beauty of the sharing and social features is that you cans imply look for someone with similar tastes, browse their library and add the books you yourself have already read. Genius if slightly lazy!

]]> By: bloglily http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-368 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:46:45 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-368 I do like librarything — I’ve been using it not to catalog my books, but as a way to enter my current reading. For some reason, the idea of using this tool to keep track of what I’m buying and checking out from the library (and sometimes reading, sometimes not) appeals to me. Anyway, I don’t know what kind of person would actually have the time to sit down and enter their entire library. In fact, I’d like to meet that person and see if maybe they might want to do our laundry and organize my sock drawer in their spare time.

]]> By: Cas Stavert http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-363 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:13:04 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-363 I’ve had a librarything account almost since the start – I think there were only about 4000 members when I joined. It’s improved a lot as it’s been very much a work in progress. I’m less interested in the social networking side of it – although it’s interesting to see which of my books are owned by no one else. And of course, it would help if I actually finished inputting all my books!

]]> By: doth http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-358 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:15:12 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-358 I found out about librarything last week too and became addicted quite quickly as well. Any bibliophile can get lost in there for hours on end.

]]> By: eoinpurcell http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-355 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:46:04 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-355 Thanks Lee,

I’ll check it out!
Eoin

]]> By: Lee http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-352 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:01:23 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/find-of-the-month-july-2006/#comment-352 Your librarything.com link isn’t working properly.

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