Tuesday 28 February 2006

"What do you read, my lord?" "Words, words, words."

Delicious Library [MAC software]
Point any FireWire digital video camera, like an Apple iSight®, at the barcode on the back of any book, movie, music, or video game.

The barcode is scanned and within seconds the item's cover appears on your digital shelves filled with in-depth information downloaded from one of six different web sources from around the world.

Once your whole library is catalogued, you can browse, sort, and search through your digital shelves. Sync your catalogued library onto your iPod or print a color catalogue and take it with you.

Find and purchase new items using Delicious Library's personalized recommendations. Keep track of the items your friends are borrowing using Delicious Library's loan management system, which integrates with Apple's Address Book and iCal.

Take advantage of new, cutting-edge Mac OS X Tiger features with Delicious Library. Search though all of your library data using the Spotlight menu and enjoy anytime access to your entire collection with the Delicious Library Dashboard widget.

If you have tons of items, or don't want to have to take your items to your computer to scan them in, check out our wireless scanner.


Library Thing
www.librarything.com
Catalog your books online
Easy - Catalog your books online, or just keep a reading list.
Social - Show everyone your library, or keep it private. Find people with the same books as you. Get recommendations from readers like you.
Powerful - Search Amazon, the Library of Congress and 30 other world libraries.
Tagged - Tag your books as on Del.icio.us and Flickr (eg., wwii, magical realism, sexuality, christian living, cats).
Safe - Export your data. Import from almost anywhere too.
Free - Enter 200 books for free, as many as you like for $10 (year) or $25 (life).

BookSleuth®
forums.abebooks.com/abesleuthcom
Is there a special book that you read, or perhaps had read to you, at some point in your life but you can't remember the author and title? Perhaps you know the plot, or a character, or maybe even what the front cover looks like. BookSleuth® is here to help you find that book! Simply post a short description of what you can remember here on our board. Visitors from all over the world will read your post, and one of them is bound to know exactly what you're talking about and post a response.

Not missing anything? Why not see if you can help anyone else find their long-lost books?

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