Personal Library Management Musings

[swordmage]

Now, the one downside to LibraryThing, near as I can tell, is it's just books*. Well, that and the fact that there seems to be no checkout feature, which would be quite nice.

These two things combined are actually rather important to us - we've a decent DVD and a modest video game collection. Not to mention, well, a fairly varied electronics collection and a bunch of other stuff.

Now, I've got a LibraryThing account, and I picked up a CueCat as well. now i just need to upload stuff... I'm more than happy to have my library up on there, simply for the ease of other people to view. However, one of the things domnall wanted when we talked about getting a record of everything using software was that he would like a checkout feature - we frequently lend out DVDs and it's nice to know who's got what.

I may have found the answer to my problems.

Biggest downside - this little baby is Mac only. And I'd have to modify the CueCat to scan, though I can use Alia's built-in camera to scan...

Tempting, tempting...

*I am well aware that people *do* have DVDs and such uploaded.

Comments

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

I have a tag called "checkout" and then I make a note of who has it in the comments. works well for me.

Movies..I don't have those catalogued... and hadn't really thought about it.

[elinor-dear.livejournal.com]

I have y'all's copy of "The Devil's Advocate." I enjoyed that entirely too much! Let me know when a good time to stop by and drop it off will be. :)

[reynier.livejournal.com]

isn't there a borrow request feature on LibraryThing? Admittedly, I haven't used it much, but I'd figured I'd just have everyone in RL request online so that I could keep it electronically tracked. Sadly, that's a simple bit of code that they're missing out on *not* to include.