My present reading log consists of a Word document, accessible from one computer. Need I say that LibraryThing is a quantum leap beyond this? Now the task of entering "all" of my past reads into LibraryThing. Whew!
Strengths of LT: You can look to others tags for help in tagging your titles. Love the Suggester feature. Keying in one of my reads - Love Walked In generated Sunday List of Dreams by Kris Radish, amongst many other titles. Yet another way to add to my list of books to read.
Weaknesses of LT: The tagging is rather subjective; but I guess this helps distinguish what you liked about the book.
Question about LT: This really pertains to any software application that allows for tagging - are there tagging conventions, ie. do you separate tags with a space or a comma? do you enter a multiple word tag as one strung together word? do you worry about capitalization?
2 comments:
Hi Amy,
Congratulations on making the leap to LibraryThing! I'm like you - except my reading log was a hand-written list that I entered into Excel once a year. I've made the switch to LT - but only for 2006 and 2007. I haven't decided if I'll put all my years online (since 1997). It seems like too much work.
You question about tagging in LT and others applications - each one is different. Del.icio.us doesn't allow multiple words - but LT does. It pays to check out each application's help screen to see how they work. This week's lesson on tagging might help, too.
Keep on playing!
Jean
Amy,
I enjoyed LibraryThing. I love the taging. It will take me more time to get aquantied with it.
Diane
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