I'm not one for cluttering up my blog with widgets, thingies, doohickeys and memes but I thought I'd tack one of LibraryThing's widgets to my sidebar. Tempting as it is to fill my online catalog with classics which I've owned for years but never read (which might have boosted my nerd cred, provided I didn't spill the beans about not having read Plato's Republic all the way through--oops. There I go) I've stuck to books I read or am reading because I found them interesting.
LibraryThing allows users to catalog up to 200 books for free. Users can add comments, ratings, tags, dates acquired, read and finished, and even specify the language in which the book is written. Entries may be added by hand, by searching the Library of Congress, Amazon.com or any of a number of other sources.
The virtual packrat in me loves having a web-based way to organize so much data. The cheapskate in me loves that I can catalog up to 200 books for free.
If any of my readers are also on LibraryThing, please feel free to post links to your profiles in the comments.
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