LibraryThing

March 2006

Today I finally finished adding all of my books into LibraryThing. The current total stands at 1127 books -- nowhere near the  8000+ books of the biggest catalogers; indeed, less than half the books of the 49th biggest cataloger. But who's counting anyway, right? Right?

In case you haven't heard of it yet (or you're simply not a bibliomaniac), LibraryThing is an incredibly cool site that allows you to catalog all your books. What's incredibly cool about that?  First, you have access to your catalog anywhere you have internet access; and second, you can find out what books other people with similar libararies have.

It seems as if there are always a few rogue books that have escaped my net (used here in the old, pre-internet sense), so the number is likely to creep upward slowly. But the bulk of my holdings can be seen by surfing to my personal catalog.

Now what I need is some way to convert the Macintosh Reflex database of our 861 LPs into something useful.