Library Thing?
Apr. 19th, 2014 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogDoes anyone still use Library Thing? (https://www.librarything.com/)
Do you feel like it's a really neat idea to enable people to look at each other's bookshelves virtually? Or is it a way for people to selectively, even pretentiously, share portions of their library to make their image in particular for the benefit of people who'll likely never see all of their books?
I'd started cataloging all my books on here once when I was still with my ex, and I'm playing with the idea of starting over and cataloging *my* stuff instead of ours. I like to think it would be useful to me, having all my books in a searchable database. But at this point in time, there also starts to be confusion about physical versus digital. For instance, do I include my PDFs of things like Foucault's "Discipline and Punish" or Scott's "Seeing Like a State" (speaking of selective choice of titles that may border on pretention....) with all my physical books?
Do you feel like it's a really neat idea to enable people to look at each other's bookshelves virtually? Or is it a way for people to selectively, even pretentiously, share portions of their library to make their image in particular for the benefit of people who'll likely never see all of their books?
I'd started cataloging all my books on here once when I was still with my ex, and I'm playing with the idea of starting over and cataloging *my* stuff instead of ours. I like to think it would be useful to me, having all my books in a searchable database. But at this point in time, there also starts to be confusion about physical versus digital. For instance, do I include my PDFs of things like Foucault's "Discipline and Punish" or Scott's "Seeing Like a State" (speaking of selective choice of titles that may border on pretention....) with all my physical books?
