I’ve read a few cyberpunk and popular science books over the last few years, and I thought it’d be fun to catalogue them online and see whether there were folks who might suggest close matches to the micro-genres I’ve enjoyed.
To that end, I started looking around for websites that might provide this service.
This should probably be seen in the context of similar searching a while back, which lead to checking out Collectorz to catalogue my CD collection [so last century I know! ;-)].
- GoodReads
- Second most established
- LibraryThing
- Seems to the most established
- Shelfari
- Owned by Amazon (altho others get book data from Amazon)
- WeRead
- Is this the most recent of the 4
Links
A google search for comparisons of the four yielded these:
- http://booksellerchick.blogspot.com/2008/10/goodreads-librarything-shelfari-one-to.html
- http://booksellerchick.blogspot.com/2008/10/goodreads-shelfari-and-librarything.html
- http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=librarything+or+goodread&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
- http://wochan.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/my-librarything-barcode-scanner-and-i/
However, this post looks like the clincher. I have therefore signed up with this account at GoodReads.
CueCat
Whilst checking out Collectorz, I found that one can scan the barcode of the CDs (and hence books) to more rapidly upload the details to the Web / desktop application.
The scanner of choice seems to be CueCat. Initially LibraryThing had this post and I thought LT would be the way to go. Happily this help item on GoodReads shows GR do the same, so CueCat is now on my birthday list!
If I go with Collectorz for CDs, I will let you know. I see there is discussion on GR re cataloguing CDs, but it’s not mainstream.
