So, yeah, we all knew it was gonna happen.
Aug. 5th, 2006 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyI am, in fact, playing with LibraryThing.
It is a terribly shiny toy.
The only problem I'm having is in trying to get the search feature to cough up the correct edition of a given book (as, for example, oh, say, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) without having to get up, find the book, and enter the ISBN.
(There's a metric to measure my total dingbat geekiness by. I'm not quite geeky enough to include ISBN numbers in my own private catalogue, but I am geeky enough that I insist on making LibraryThing catalogue the CORRECT edition of a given book.)
I am currently quailing before the morass of results I'm going to get for The Book of Three.
Ai-yi-yi.
Ah well. It's not worth eating unless it's bigger than my head.*
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*--E. Bear
It is a terribly shiny toy.
The only problem I'm having is in trying to get the search feature to cough up the correct edition of a given book (as, for example, oh, say, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) without having to get up, find the book, and enter the ISBN.
(There's a metric to measure my total dingbat geekiness by. I'm not quite geeky enough to include ISBN numbers in my own private catalogue, but I am geeky enough that I insist on making LibraryThing catalogue the CORRECT edition of a given book.)
I am currently quailing before the morass of results I'm going to get for The Book of Three.
Ai-yi-yi.
Ah well. It's not worth eating unless it's bigger than my head.*
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*--E. Bear
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Date: 2006-08-05 10:51 pm (UTC)wonderful shiny library toy.
And the guy who whomped it together one weekend almost a year ago has gone ahead and learned about MARC record cataloging, just because he could, the dearling geek.