I have noticed some limitations to this system, which is that sometimes the bar code just won’t scan. You can also add your own information with the “tags” and “notes” features, review the book, add a rating and lots more! It automatically adds a cover photo of the book, date of publication, publisher, number of pages, the ISBN number(s) and a description of the book. Now, simply click on the title to see all the information about the book: You can also see the total number of books I’ve entered under the name of my library, “Tammy’s Physical Book Library.” Obviously, I still have lots of books to scan:-D (click on the image to make it larger).Ĥ. It even instantaneously shows up on your computer! Now that I’ve scanned The Time Machines, you can see the computer screen shot below, where the title is now part of my library! You can see it under the letter “T” where it belongs. Once the scanner picks up the bar code, the book is immediately added to your library. I’ve still got a lot to explore and learn with all of these media, so we’ll see what’s happening in a few months.3. It’s a great thing to know when you’re a “collector” (read, compulsive book buyer read, book hoarder). Like I said before, there are countless ways to keep track of not only what you’re reading and what you’ve read, but just what you have. I don’t know what you’d post there, but hey, put up some inspirational quotes or random numbers. You can post in your Feed for other users to see. You can publish your library so that others can see it, and find friends who also use Libib. Once you’ve created your bookshelves and added all the information you’d like about them–reading status, tags of any sort, a review, and any other notes you want to add–you can utilize the social aspect. The process for cataloging is similar to Bookpedia in that you can either manually input an ISBN or ASIN in order to add a book or other form of media, or use a smartphone or webcamera to scan a barcode. Libib is a free personal cataloging tool that is stored completely online. Or do that thing where you automatically scan from your phone directly to your computer. After scanning a few books (not 400 like I did), check and make sure your sync actually works. So keep an eye on your books if you decide that Bookpedia is the way to go for your personal library cataloging. A recent check of the blog and forum indicate no update has been announced, so who knows if that magic bug was actually a thing or if I’m just a technological doofus. I will admit I got distracted by other things and didn’t push when I didn’t hear back about that. My scans weren’t actually being recorded so according to Pocketpedia, the only thing to sync were those eight books already on my laptop. I went onto the Bookpedia support forum where the admin informed me that I might have run into a rare special iPhone iOS 8 bug, which he was trying to replicate and fix through a Pocketpedia update. I synced the programs and whoosh! No more books. The several hundred books I scanned onto Pocketpedia never made it onto my laptop. This is where Bookpedia and I got into a little fight. Using your smartphone, you can scan the ISBN/ASIN barcodes of books, movies, CDs and video games to Pocketpedia and either send them immediately to the program on your computer over wifi, or store them on your phone to sync later. It has countless fields to make you really feel like a cataloger, down to where you bought it and even whether it’s signed. I thought I’d explore a few tools that might prove useful to the people who, unlike Supreme Rioter Amanda, are lacking or uninterested in spreadsheet savvy.īookpedia is a collection of software (including Bookpedia, CDpedia, DVDpedia, and Gamepedia, as well as Pocketpedia for your phone) that you can purchase and download to a desktop or laptop computer. Also, due to discomfort with its connection to Amazon, many people have been determined to find alternatives. Goodreads is the most frequently discussed tools for all of these options, but sometimes it doesn’t have exactly what you’re looking for. There are countless methods for recording various aspects of our reading lives, including books we own, things we want to read, and other elements of online community. Not all readers feel the need to organize their reading universes, but many of us do. Find her exclamations about books and pho on twitter ( JessIsReading) and instagram ( jess_is_reading). She can be found drowning in her ever-growing TBR and exclaiming about romance in the Book Riot podcast ( When in Romance), as well as on social media. While she is still working on what she wants to be when she grows up, she’s enjoying dabbling in librarianship and writing all the things. Jessica Pryde is a member of that (some might call) rare breed that grew up in Washington, DC, but is happily enjoying the warmer weather of the desert Southwest.
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