noteworthy wrote:
This is a neat site.

What is LibraryThing?

Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things.

What's good?

* Searches Amazon, the Library of Congress and 60 other world libraries.
* Get recommendations. Connect to people with similar libraries.
* Tag your books as on Del.icio.us and Flickr.
* Put your books on your blog.
* Export your data. Import from almost anywhere too.

If you want to explore the site, try the zeitgeist and the BookSuggester. For example: enter From Dawn to Decadence and you'll get a recommendation for The Metaphysical Club.

it's weird how people have similiar ideas
i've spent the last couple of months learning bits of PHP and mySQL in part because I want to build a database of my books.
i figured that whenever i go around to someone's house i like to scan through the titles of their books and since i have a personal site i could stick a list of all my books and music on a database for people to browse
ahh convergent evolution
i still intend to go ahead with that if only for the intellectual exercise but it is fasinating to see this site and i'm tempted but i'm not sure i want to do the data entry twice
it would be nice if once i've done the database i could create an xml file and send it to them

RE: LibraryThing | Catalog your books online