A thread about Library Thing (sort of "Flickr for books", I suppose)

http://www.librarything.com/profile/Archel

There's also a thread on ILB:
LibraryThing: Catalog your collection

I started this but gave up abt 1/3 through my book collection and without doing any tagging at all. I might get round to finishing it.

Jeffrey:

Barthes and the empire of signs -> One of my favourite books!

Followed by a Gilles Deleuze book which seemed to be written in Chinese. I couldn't understand one word of what he was saying. :-)

Jeffrey's list is a bit similar to what my reading habits were five years ago.

A database for...human behaviour.

Sincerest regrets.

That Barthes and the empire of the signs is a horrible fake. It cost me £2.99 from the internet and turned out to be an essay abt the book even though it was advertised as the real thing. It was pretty good but very very light, I did go out and buy the real thing immediately though.

I have not actually got round to reading cinema-one yet, mostly because i read ten or fifteen pages and realise i have no clue abt what's going on. I try again every month or so in the hope that one day it'll just click with me. I am still waiting, but hopeful.

I have quite a few of those mini-essay style books, like the fake empire of the signs one, that are terribly light and feel like some sort of undergraduate essay on the person. I don't really know who they are aimed at but i like them anyway for when my brain doesn't feel up to reading the actual ppl. They are usually very cheap too so sometimes are a good way of finding out if i'd actually find the person enjoyable or at least give me some idea of which books i should go for first.

Hollywood Babylon : The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets by Kenneth Anger

Lights Out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair

London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

Dubliners (Penguin popular classics) by James Joyce

London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

The Master and Margarita (Harvill Panther S.) by Mikhail Bulgakov

Books you share with Archel

Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

Clockwork Orange. by Anthony Burgess

Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell

Selected Poems (Penguin Poetry Library) by Carol Ann Duffy

Books you share with Jeffreyzor

Coming Up For Air by George Orwell

Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's pretty interesting, actually, I rather like it. Largely because cataloguing them showed me a lot of books I'd forgotten I had.

I never think of ISBNs if I can help it.

But, I was only kidding about the irking. I've done enough cataloguing in my life.

There are Dewey numbers, on the full library card, as long as the database the book was originally pulled from had the Dewey number listed.

Books you share with Nordicskilla:

Ask the dust by John Fante
Dubliners by James Joyce
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
The Basque history of the world by Mark Kurlansky
The Shock of the new by Robert Hughes

I like LT because we have so goddam many books, I forget if we own a copy or not of things. But, I've spent two nights looking for Henry Petroski's Book on the Bookshelf, which I know we have somewhere because it's IN LT SO I PUT IT THERE, RIGHT?! But I can't find it. It did prevent me from buying a few things that would have been duplicates when we made a Powell's run a month back.

My page

Books we share: (1)

The House Book by Editors of Phaidon Press

Books you share (16)

Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes

Murphy by Samuel Beckett

Looking Backward (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edward Bellamy

Selected Poetry (Poetry Library) by William Blake

Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities by Kevin Jackson

Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Wordsworth Classics) by James Joyce

Dubliners (Penguin popular classics) by James Joyce

Coming Up For Air by George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London (Modern Classics S.) by George Orwell

Life, a user's manual: Fictions by Georges Perec

Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Twentieth Century Classics) by Georges Perec

Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon

Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Tristram Shandy (Wordsworth Classics) by Laurence Sterne

I share 4 books with Quartz City, all of them by Neal Stephenson; 19 with Coastaltown, similar to Casuistry; 49 with Casuistry - I notice there is actually a cookbook we share!

http://www.librarything.com/profile/o_nate

http://www.librarything.com/profile/NeilFuckingWilson

http://www.librarything.com/profile/jaymc

The only books on there now are the ones that I could think of off the top of my head that I owned -- I'll add more later, once I'm at home and can actually look at my shelves.

On a happier note, some of the records I created show up if you search the Library of Congress as your database. My favorite being: Palhacos. It's a book about Brazilian clowns. I made that record for a book that had pictures of drunken clowns. I'm beaming with pride.