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Francesca R

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Show us your books :)

I did this using books.google.com, inspired by Geek Goddess's version. There are presumably other networking sites that facilitate something similar

My library here. This is stuff I've bought and read over the last year or two (I have not read the reference books cover to cover, and many of them I have had for longer anyway). I tend not to buy more than a couple of books ahead of time since I don't trust myself to read them all. I keep a large "save for later" shopping basket on amazon instead.

The book covers on google are (I assume) the US versions, so most of my copies have different covers.

Geek Goddess said:
books.google.com You create an account - I used my gmail account - and create your library. You can then search for books by title, author, keyword, and when you find them, click 'add to my library' You can write your own reviews, add your own labels/tags to sort them, etc. I haven't found a way to sort them in alphabetical or any order other than, the most recent added stay at the top. But I added enough tags so that I can sort them pretty well that way. Google Books is in the process of scanning huge numbers of books, so if you search on a phrase in a book, it might pull that page up, out of that book! How cool is that? If you noticed, when you click on the cover pic or title of the book, it takes you over to where Google Books has collected reviews, synopsis, references and referrals, and so on.
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I am fairly certain I've managed to list(!) about all of the books/works on skepticism and wooism. 1874 entries (as of today). But there could be pockets of treasure somewhere in the dungeon.

As for the rest, I can only give a rough estimate of shelf space/tonnage.

[Ludo voice]Books...friends.[/Ludo voice]
 
You those who don't know, I've got my house for sell in one part of the state, while I'm renting a friend's guest house in another part of the state where my new position is. I discovered the Google Books site a month ago, and have been loading the books I've acquired in the past six months, as well as a number of my science fiction books that I listed from memory. It's not my total library - I mean, it doesn't even have my Lord of the Rings.!!! Whenever I actually get my house sold and my total library unpacked, I'll get this up to speed.

At the recommendation of another person on the forum, I also bought Collectorz.com's software and a cute little scanning tool (to read the bar codes of the books into the software, although I seem to have a large number of books that were printed before bar codes :rolleyes:). I like the features on it, and I'm building up my catalog there as well, but the Google Books is very simple to use and easier to share with people.

ETA: oooh, Francesca, a foodie and travel junkie! My friend! I picked up Not on the Label when I was in London a few years ago. I've not seen it for sale in the U.S. I got some ideas from your book list! Have you read of of Thomas Sowell's books? If not - I think I have most of his listed, so you can look at Google's reviews linked through my list.
 
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Geek Goddess said:
ETA: oooh, Francesca, a foodie and travel junkie! My friend! I picked up Not on the Label when I was in London a few years ago. I've not seen it for sale in the U.S. I got some ideas from your book list! Have you read of of Thomas Sowell's books? If not - I think I have most of his listed, so you can look at Google's reviews linked through my list.
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LOL Geeky I thought that meant you thought "Not on the label" was a recipe book for a while there. There's been a popular wave of anti-food-technology (tinged with anti-globalisation, anti-business, anti-government, anti anti anti stuff) books recently. I tried to pick out that as one of the more balanced ones. It's still a rant though, and these books probably sell more in anti-GMO Europe.

Travel? Yes my parents infected me with that when they dragged the family around Asia when I was little and lived in New Zealand where I was born. I still love travel, though do more of it with work now than with free time. I think my countries-visited list is the same as my age (33).

No, not read any Sowell books :)
 
So, what is the point of posting one's library on such a website? Or is it just bragging rights?
 
The site will recommend other books to you based on your library. You can talk to other people who like the same books as you. If people ask you what your favourite authors are, you can just give them a link instead of having to list them all.

And even if you haven't posted your library, you can use the Unsuggester:

http://www.librarything.com/unsuggester
 
Geek Goddess said:
At the recommendation of another person on the forum, I also bought Collectorz.com's software and a cute little scanning tool (to read the bar codes of the books into the software, although I seem to have a large number of books that were printed before bar codes :rolleyes:).
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Oh, thank Odin -- that's exactly what I need!

*off to Collectorz.com*
 
Madalch said:
So, what is the point of posting one's library on such a website? Or is it just bragging rights?
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Bragging? I don't think it's bragging. I like to see what other books people have - it not only gives me ideas for books to read, it gives me an idea about the person!

If no one famous said it, they should have: Show me a man's books, and you've shown me the man.

DmKrispin said:
Oh, thank Odin -- that's exactly what I need!

*off to Collectorz.com*
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If you haven't made a purchase yet.

After you make a purchase, they send you a coupon for $8 off your next purchase. I didn't have a reason to buy anything except the book software, so the bundled prices didn't hold any appeal for me. When I got the coupon, however, I went back and bought the inexpensive bar code scanner. The expensive one is cordless and holds several books at a time, which you then download to your computer. I bought the cheap one that plugs into the computer, which means that I have to bring the books to the computer.

Also, you can download the software as a trial.

YMMV
 
Geek Goddess said:
Bragging? I don't think it's bragging. I like to see what other books people have - it not only gives me ideas for books to read, it gives me an idea about the person!

If no one famous said it, they should have: Show me a man's books, and you've shown me the man.
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I don't think I'm ready to expose myself in public like that.
 
Okay, looks like I am in for this. I am trying to do it from Google like GG. I want to know how to add more than one label to your book. GG has done this, but I can't figure out how. I know how to make the first label, and how to edit the label.

For example, I want my history books listed under "History" & "Civil War"

Susan
 
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