March 22, 2020

Word: LibraryThing

John Gear - I have been a member for a many years and really like LibraryThing, a (now free) tool that lets you create an online catalog of your books easily and gives you images of each book; it’s great for a professional collection as you can use it to store your collection and have it with you at any time, letting you answer that “Do I already have this?” Question when you see a book on sale or are about to make an impulse purchase.

LibraryThing is also great for friends and groups who want to share reading lists. It can also be used for small shared libraries — a group of people interested in X can create an account for their group, and they would each list the books they have on topic X, and tag each book with the name of the owner, so the others in the group would know where to get the book.

The good folks behind LibraryThing have made this all free to everyone — and nothing like being stuck at home to provide the time to catalog your collection!

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