![]() When you go book shopping, print your list and take it along. Later, you can then type this into a document or spreadsheet that’s easily editable and searchable in the future. Go through your shelves and write down what you own. It’s probably also the most time consuming. This is the most obvious (and old fashioned). If you’re stuck at home right now thanks to Cornanvirus and social distancing recommendations, here’s a task you can take on that will get you organized and might even be fun! There are many options for this task, so I’ve summarized a few for you here. I’m especially guilty of this at the book sale bag day, when they only cost a few cents a piece! Most often, I’m tricked by different editions of the same book. Or I simply forget I have it, and don’t check my list before I buy. Me and Brittany volunteering at the library book sale bag dayįirst of all, I consider my home library finely curated, and I STILL have bought duplicates unintentionally. She asked me to do a post on the topic of cataloging one’s home library to hopefully avoid this in the future. My friend was surprised to discover multiple duplicates among her collection. After our last shift volunteering at the library book sale, she went home to do the first ever cull of her shelves. Pre-2005 bar code and ISBN often do not match – this seems more common with US books than UK ones.Today’s post is coming to you at the request of my bookish friend Brittany. ![]() I have just put over 3500 books from my collection into this and here are a few notes: In many cases, books are double-stacked on the shelves, so you can’t even see them all (and this isn’t even all my piles!): This is a work in progress! Here are some of the piles of books in my house that I need to scan into my Libib library. You can then go to the “tags” tab and add an “ARC” tag, which is a great way to keep track of the ARCs I own. However, to get around that, I can find the ISBN on the ARC and MANUALLY enter it, and the book will pop up in the system. The other thing it won’t do is indicate if a book is an advanced reader’s copy, because ARCs don’t have bar codes. That isn’t ideal for me in terms of book collecting, but it still does the job and includes the book as part of your library. Also, if you have a paperback version of a book that came out in hardback first, when you scan the paperback, it will upload the hardback cover art, not the paperback cover art. I do have some books with old ISBN numbers, and it won’t pick up all of those. 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.
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