Comments on: Tracking Your Books and Library Online

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:42:06 +0000

Good article! I was just exploring the different sites and debating because of having friends using each network. One thing I will say, the ads on Goodreads don’t bother me. Mostly because I have actually found some good deals or new authors through them. As long as they stay book ads, I won’t mind them. Thanks again for the post!

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:52:38 +0000

Very good advice. I am now using LibraryThing and I can’t thank you enough

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By: Jack Vinson

Jack Vinson — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:39:31 +0000

I saw all those pieces and pondered Evernote and Delicious too, but none of them seemed to do what I really wanted to do. Or maybe I want to do several things that really isn’t compatible in one place. Namely: suggestions I’ve received (who, why, comments, etc) + books I’ve read (when, comments).

The tags in LibraryThing started by topic tags, and I found the read / not read tagging to be rather clumsy, and this was just last fall.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:58:59 +0000

Jack -

For tracking lots of information, I think LibraryThing is the best of the three.

There is a comments field to keep notes. There are also date fields for when the book was added to the database, when you acquired it, when you started reading it and when you finished reading it.

Take a look at the use of collections as a way to help organize beyond tags. They act as filters.

Also, you can create five customized views of your collections. Try the A,B,C,D,and E buttons at the top. Click on the “gear” icon to customize each of those five views.

I actually use a Delicious tag for suggestions. (http://delicious.com/dougcornelius/bookstoread) I don’t add books to LibraryThing until I have it hand. The Delicious tag has the date automatically. I usually tag the review of the book or the article that got me interested.

By: Jack Vinson

Jack Vinson — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:42:02 +0000

Thanks for posting this, Doug. I checked back into LibraryThing a few months back when I realized that I was actually reading more again. I really want help tracking the list of books I’ve read and the suggestions I’ve gotten. Tags seem to work at the bare minimum, but they don’t help me with the more nuanced questions of when I read things or when they were suggested. For that, I probably need a database (I really like Smartlist ToGo for than on my Palm way back when). Now I’ve dumped stuff into a spreadsheet.

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