Check out this complete tour with sections including "First Editions of Books About Conjoined Twins. The aforementioned John Green organizes his home library using an idiosyncratic method derived from both broad and narrow categorizations of his collection. There are various ways to shelve books - you can do it with Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress Classification.but both of these are pretty heavy for a personal collection. My friend Lyza switched from Delicious Library to LibraryThing when her library grew too large to practically manage with the desktop application.so LibraryThing looks like a very scalable option. It's free for people with up to 200 books, and cheap ($25 for a lifetime membership) after that. LibraryThing is a web application that catalogs your books online, incorporating some social networking features - like you can look up former flosser (now prominent novelist) John Green's author page and even see his personal library contents. Very nice, and $40 (for Mac only, screenshot above). GR does offer immediate feedback and discussion options on individual reviews, but I find the catalogue a little unwieldy and cumbersome. The 75 Group in particular is mostly politics-free and both friendly and welcoming to newcomers. This app also helps me lend items to friends, including setting "due dates" and tracking who has not returned something. The cataloguing system is, IMO, far superior and easier to, well, read than that on GR. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth. It doesn’t have a free version but the cost 14.99 is reasonable and has no limit on the size of your library. It allows you to add books on manually, via an import, or with ISBN barcode scanning just like the others. You can access your catalog from anywhereeven on your mobile phone. This app had the most connectivity with other platforms and had a pleasing look. It scans barcodes using my computer's built-in camera and looks them up on Amazon, retrieving cover art and details about the item. LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. 9. Here are the options I'm currently considering: Library SoftwareÄelicious Library (a Mac application) can easily import my smallish library, including CDs and DVDs. I'm faced with a new challenge: how to organize all these books? Looking around the web, there seem to be a few major options - but I'm wondering how you have dealt with this challenge? So yesterday I bought a new set of bookshelves - they're the "LACK" series from IKEA. Until yesterday I only owned two bookshelves (one of them half-sized), but had perfected the art of book-stacking (and book-cramming - placing more volumes above the regular row of books.), so each shelf holds twice its normal complement of books. For someone with a degree in Library Science, I'm really bad at organizing a home library.
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