How to add ongoing webcomics in the scroll format to LibraryThing?
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1Aninja
Hi helpers.
I hope I found the right group for this :)
I've been on this site since the early days. And I've been reading webcomics from the publisher Webtoon on their platform for 8 years. It's about time I started logging every Webtoon I've read, to keep a record for myself. But where to start?
I found this: Annarasumanara (Webtoon) by the famous creator Il-Kwon Ha. Only 4 people have added it, and none of his other works are here.
And I get an error message when I try to add it, "Could not find any results. Go to the Add Books page.", which kind of makes sense, since webtoons are in the scrolling format and not in any library catalogue.
Even so, I'm sure this has been done before by others, but I searched for webcomic(s), web comic(s) and Webtoon and got no hits across Talks, Groups and the Wiki.
Is this really virgin territory?
Are some of you up for discussing what you have done/would do, or point me in the direction of existing talks?
Kind regards
Aninja
I hope I found the right group for this :)
I've been on this site since the early days. And I've been reading webcomics from the publisher Webtoon on their platform for 8 years. It's about time I started logging every Webtoon I've read, to keep a record for myself. But where to start?
I found this: Annarasumanara (Webtoon) by the famous creator Il-Kwon Ha. Only 4 people have added it, and none of his other works are here.
And I get an error message when I try to add it, "Could not find any results. Go to the Add Books page.", which kind of makes sense, since webtoons are in the scrolling format and not in any library catalogue.
Even so, I'm sure this has been done before by others, but I searched for webcomic(s), web comic(s) and Webtoon and got no hits across Talks, Groups and the Wiki.
Is this really virgin territory?
Are some of you up for discussing what you have done/would do, or point me in the direction of existing talks?
Kind regards
Aninja
2gilroy
Well, if it is in book form, it's probably under the tag webcomic:
https://www.librarything.com/tag/webcomic
However, if not in book form, they probably have to be added manually.
https://www.librarything.com/tag/webcomic
However, if not in book form, they probably have to be added manually.
3MarthaJeanne
The one you link to has one manual entry and three with no source listed.
So your choices seem to be manual entry, or create a spreadsheet to import, using the sample exactly.
Finding them on LT doesn't bring you anything for entry, however if they have already been entered, you will very likely have yo be manually combined as well.
So your choices seem to be manual entry, or create a spreadsheet to import, using the sample exactly.
Finding them on LT doesn't bring you anything for entry, however if they have already been entered, you will very likely have yo be manually combined as well.
4norabelle414
I think you're more likely to find what you're looking for under the "webtoon" tag than "webcomic": https://www.librarything.com/tag/webtoon
Though even there people mostly catalog individual volumes and not the comic as a whole.
If you do choose to add the ongoing webcomic manually, make sure you name it in a way that makes it clear it's separate from any volumes that might be published. For example, you could put "(ongoing webcomic)" at the end of the title or something like that. That will keep people from combining it.
A close equivalent you could look to might be ongoing podcasts. People have cataloged quite a lot of those here.
Though even there people mostly catalog individual volumes and not the comic as a whole.
If you do choose to add the ongoing webcomic manually, make sure you name it in a way that makes it clear it's separate from any volumes that might be published. For example, you could put "(ongoing webcomic)" at the end of the title or something like that. That will keep people from combining it.
A close equivalent you could look to might be ongoing podcasts. People have cataloged quite a lot of those here.
5Aninja
Thank you, everyone, for your advice! I'm looking forward to get started.
@Gilroy:
I never noticed that tags have their own urls like https://www.librarything.com/tag/webtoon, that's such a nice feature.
@MarthaJeanne:
Importing a spreadsheet, also a feature I never thought to look for, that's gonna be fun to (carefully) play around with. And I'm already a Combiner.
@norabelle414:
Thanks for the tag, and for the tip to look at ongoing podcasts, that's for sure the way to go. And I'll make sure to come up with something along the lines of "(ongoing)" or maybe "(Published online in the Webtoon-app)" in the title.
@Gilroy:
I never noticed that tags have their own urls like https://www.librarything.com/tag/webtoon, that's such a nice feature.
@MarthaJeanne:
Importing a spreadsheet, also a feature I never thought to look for, that's gonna be fun to (carefully) play around with. And I'm already a Combiner.
@norabelle414:
Thanks for the tag, and for the tip to look at ongoing podcasts, that's for sure the way to go. And I'll make sure to come up with something along the lines of "(ongoing)" or maybe "(Published online in the Webtoon-app)" in the title.
