Hee!

But then, I had some books that didn't seem to have ISBNs at all -- mostly older ones, like pulpy sci fi from the 1950s/60s and kids' lit from the same era.

posted by ringthebells at 3:29 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2007

For the first shelf or so I was cataloguing by title/author, but I soon discovered that ISBN was easier and would usually take me to the right edition. :)

I've still found a few books that weren't listed by their ISBN though; in most cases I managed to find them by title or author, but in one case I had to enter the book info by hand. For some of my books the editions that are listed here aren't actually the ones on my shelf -- at some point I may compulsively go back and fix that, but for now I'm still in a book-entering frenzy.

For some reason the thing that's really getting to me right now is I need to make every thumbnail in the collection match the actual cover of my actual book; I'm keeping a list of the ones I couldn't get, and at some unknown point in the future I'm planning to actually scan the things in. :)

posted by ringthebells at 3:21 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2007

Ah ha! I thought you were probably somebody I knew from LJ, but I had no idea who. :)

This is seriously addictive. I think I'm going to have to give them money so that I can list more than 200 books.

posted by ringthebells at 2:58 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2007

Um, hi! I don't really know what being LibraryThing friends does.

posted by ringthebells at 12:13 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2007