Comments on: Organizing Bookshelves

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:43:09 +0000

Friends of mine have been very happy with Readerware (http://readerware.com/) over the years. Then again, they are extensive readers, with thousands of books, comics, graphic novels, etc.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:57:15 +0000

A friend of mine, and an Author just set up his Library-Thing account. He used a barcode scanner to read in the info right into the program.

More info on how he did it: http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/2007/03/19/library-thing/

By: The ISBN Guru

The ISBN Guru — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:35:00 +0000

..That should really read *ISBN*, naturally; (-IMDB can safely be left out of this project entirely, as you’d initially suspect..) ;)

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:27:07 +0000

Try getting a hold of some kind of barcode -scanner, or barcode -”pen”; -I’d guess you could just sweep over the books’ barcodes with one of those and just find some kind of software that knows how to recognize them; -perhaps even grab the IMDB/barcode -data from Amazon, or whereever..

-Good luck, anyways..

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:00:18 +0000

We don’t have any hard-and-fast rules for our ~800 books. Instead, the bookshelves in various rooms have themes. Kids books are on one bookshelf, popular fiction another, paperbacks are kept separately, and non-fiction tends to be together.

We have some mixture or leakage, but overall it woeks fine. I generally know which bookcase (and often shelf) to go to when looking for a book.

By: Jay Wilson

Jay Wilson — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:55:22 +0000

Slightly off topic, but where is a place to obtain quality bookshelves? I’m looking to do some literary posing this spring.

By: Adam B

Adam B — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:46:48 +0000

that’s a killer idea. the photo looks great.