{"id":183,"date":"2006-02-02T19:05:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T23:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2006\/02\/02\/library-thing-again\/"},"modified":"2006-02-02T19:05:20","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T23:05:20","slug":"library-thing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2006\/02\/02\/library-thing-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Thing (again…)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ok, Library Thing<\/a> is way too addictive: just a couple of days into the process and I’m 22 books shy of upgrading to a lifetime account. And I can hardly wait because I’ve only managed to get two shelves catalogued so far — there are many more that number to go. Many more. It’s very easy to use, and while there have been some wait times while Tim Spalding ugraded to a new server over the last few days, it’s a real breeze inputting data. I’ve noticed that I get fussy at times and try to make sure I’ve actually catalogued the very edition I have, but other times (with mass market stuff), I figure that the pretty picture from Amazon is good enough and who cares if I have the 1998 edition or the 2000, if<\/i> it’s not a revision, that is… The main thing is that it’s a mnemonic for me: this is a book some version of which I have, and it’s now been tagged so that I can find it when I’m looking for a particular subject. It’s also been incredible fun getting reacquainted with some old friends.<\/p>\n

And yes, it is<\/i> a bit narcissistic, but all in good fun: I can check my “fun statistics” page and discover that out of the 178 books I’ve catalogued so far, only 48 are titles “shared” with other Library Thing<\/a> users. And yo!, I haven’t even started<\/i> on my obscure stuff yet! <\/p>\n

Great work, Tim, really! This is one hell of a useful (and fun) application…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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