I use LibraryThing and a CueCat scanner. I think it's called that anyway, it's a little cat thing that reads the barcodes. LibraryThing then turns that into a complete listing. It's awesome.
Books with no barcode are in a big heap on another shelf. Actually I'm thinking of giving them away. Er, not only because they're more of a bother to catalog. I mostly haven't read them either. Inherited books. But then I get to thinking that some of them might be treasures, so on my shelf they stay.
I like LibraryThing, it remembers stuff for me. I can look up how many of a series I've got, or if an author sounds familiar cause somewhere in the house there's books by them. For a while I stopped buying books that weren't new releases, on account of I had no idea if I owned them already. No longer that particular problem.
My comics... I had a full list of them, done with a typewriter, very carefully. Not carefully enough though - I checked it once I thought I'd completed my Justice League collection and I had some doubles and some gaps rather than a complete run. Woe.
Of course any comics you can buy on amazon, the collected ones, they scan in just like smaller books. Win.
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Date: 2007-12-13 04:45 pm (UTC)Books with no barcode are in a big heap on another shelf. Actually I'm thinking of giving them away. Er, not only because they're more of a bother to catalog. I mostly haven't read them either. Inherited books. But then I get to thinking that some of them might be treasures, so on my shelf they stay.
I like LibraryThing, it remembers stuff for me. I can look up how many of a series I've got, or if an author sounds familiar cause somewhere in the house there's books by them. For a while I stopped buying books that weren't new releases, on account of I had no idea if I owned them already. No longer that particular problem.
My comics... I had a full list of them, done with a typewriter, very carefully. Not carefully enough though - I checked it once I thought I'd completed my Justice League collection and I had some doubles and some gaps rather than a complete run. Woe.
Of course any comics you can buy on amazon, the collected ones, they scan in just like smaller books. Win.