November 2005


life hacks + lush librarians + social software + web 2.020 Nov 2005 10:56 pm

i have now “tagged” over 300 books in my bibliogoddess library. after the first 200 books, which i added for free, i gave in to the madness and upgraded to a LibraryThing lifetime unlimited account!

a couple of comments on the search feature:

:: the book search does not return results for words of less than 4 letters. while this prevents searches for stop words like “the” it also does not allow searches for legitimate words (e.g. “tea” yields no results — i have 4 books with “tea” in the title).

:: the book search and tag search only do exact match searches — this means that if someone is checking my catalogue for a book they think is titled or tagged as artist, but is actually listed as artists, the book will not be found. entering art will only return art, not artist and artists.

despite these search quirks — quirks because i want people to be able to find the book if i have it — i am happy having my library searchable and browseable online. i have even added a borrowed tag so i know what is checked out, and to whom!

life hacks + lush librarians + social software12 Nov 2005 02:11 am

today i discovered LibraryThing, a free tool that lets a person create a library catalogue of their books. more importantly, it allows users to tag and share their collections in the spirit of like flickr and del.icio.us.

adding titles to my library collection was easy; i simply searched within LibraryThing for the title or ISBN. in most cases, the search returned book covers along with the bibliographic information.

LibraryThing uses Z39.50 to search out a variety of sources including several amazons (amazon.ca, amazon.co.uk, amazon.com) as well as other libraries including Library of Congress and even the University of Calgary Library.

i have added a LibraryThing widget to the sidebar which displays books at random out of the bibliogoddess collection.

add to my library –
see my bibliogoddess wishlist!

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