{"id":1454,"date":"2010-04-11T07:48:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T07:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2014-03-06T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:51:58","slug":"library-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1454","title":{"rendered":"Library Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago (well, in September 2005, when I was newly retired and Library Thing was brand new) I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\">Library Thing<\/a>, a service that allows you to catalog your library (entering books by ISBN, title, whatever)&#8230; says <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LibraryThing\">the Wikipedia entry<\/a>, &#8220;a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing personal library catalogs and book lists.&#8221; I messed with it a bit and then got ummmm distracted by some other shiny thing. I happened to take a look again the other day, and discovered that they offer (for $15) a USB scanning device called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/wiki\/index.php\/CueCat_Guide\">CueCat<\/a>. Plug it in and swipe it over an ISBN bar code and **PRESTO** the book is looked up (at Amazon or Library of Congress, your choice) and entered into your Library Thing database. In just a few minutes I scanned in a shelf of books, typing in the ISBN if there was no barcode, and searching by title if the book was too old to sport an ISBN. You can eyeball <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog\/oook\">the current state of the project<\/a> (200 books in, the very tip of the proverbial). Just what I&#8217;m going to DO with this is a bit less clear, but possibilities and uses will doubtless emerge to declare themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago (well, in September 2005, when I was newly retired and Library Thing was brand new) I discovered Library Thing, a service that allows you to catalog your library (entering books by ISBN, title, whatever)&#8230; says the Wikipedia entry, &#8220;a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing personal library catalogs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}