I currently use LibraryThing only to keep track of the almost 200 books that I currently have at my parents house... I've found it ok. It does the job but what I don't like is that there are not fields for keeping track of where the book is (who's borrowing it, if it's at my parents or my place), etc.
I've flirted extensively with Readerware (http://www.readerware.com/rwFeat.html) because it's much more what I want. I'm trying to convince myself that $40 isn't really that much and it'll be way worth it in the long run. In the meantime, I've built myself an access database with most of the same fields as Readerware, which I like but can't look up information by bar code, so I have to manually enter everything. (Which is a pain when you have as many books as I do.)
Short story is, I like LibraryThing enough for the moment. But once I convince myself that $40 to catalog my library and keep track of everything isn't that much... then I'm going to buy Readerware.
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Date: 2007-04-22 02:05 pm (UTC)I've flirted extensively with Readerware (http://www.readerware.com/rwFeat.html) because it's much more what I want. I'm trying to convince myself that $40 isn't really that much and it'll be way worth it in the long run. In the meantime, I've built myself an access database with most of the same fields as Readerware, which I like but can't look up information by bar code, so I have to manually enter everything. (Which is a pain when you have as many books as I do.)
Short story is, I like LibraryThing enough for the moment. But once I convince myself that $40 to catalog my library and keep track of everything isn't that much... then I'm going to buy Readerware.