Online Library Cataloging

[qos]

How cool is this?!?!!

http://www.librarything.com

I love the idea of being able to see who else owns the same books. . . .
It looks like you can, as with LJ, determine the degree to which the sharing is public.

Comments

[qos.livejournal.com]

Can you believe that I was creating my first card catalog for my personal library before I was in the fourth grade?

Trying to put my finger on what about cataloging attracts me so deeply, I think it's finding all the ways one object connects to another. It's not just the distinct book that's important, it's finding all the places it might share a quality with another. My 'subject' lines can get very lengthy.

I think too that some part of my brain believes that cataloging leads to deeper understanding: of 'handling' an object (or topic, or whatever) and finding what makes it distinct, and what it has in common with other similar things, especially in non-obvious ways.