{"id":994,"date":"2010-03-16T01:59:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T06:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/?p=994"},"modified":"2010-03-16T01:59:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T06:59:31","slug":"librarything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2010\/03\/16\/librarything\/","title":{"rendered":"LibraryThing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going on four years ago now, a bunch of us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog\/kreb\">signed up for LibraryThing<\/a>. After an initial fit of adding stuff by hand, I slacked off. Then Dorrie happened and I had an excuse to slack off.<\/p>\n<p>But a year or so ago, J and I bought one of the cheap little barcode readers that LibraryThing sells themselves, hoping that would inspire us to come back to it and perhaps help us to figure out what books we actually owned. (Both of us have unintentionally purchased duplicates in the past). <\/p>\n<p>Finally, last week I went in and deleted my old library holdings because I couldn&#8217;t remember what I had cataloged and what I hadn&#8217;t. In the years since I last used it, they&#8217;ve added the ability to put books into separate collections, which is ideal. I can fill in a collection (manga, scifi, etc.) and not feel that I have misrepresented my entire personal library by implying I only own mysteries or whatever I have managed to add to the catalog.<\/p>\n<p>The barcode scanner helped quite a bit too, and I started readding things over the weekend. I made good progress, though I didn&#8217;t quite get through all the manga before my free time was over. Hopefully now that I&#8217;ve got going I&#8217;ll be able to carve out time here and there to continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going on four years ago now, a bunch of us signed up for LibraryThing. After an initial fit of adding stuff by hand, I slacked off. Then Dorrie happened and I had an excuse to slack off. But a year or so ago, J and I bought one of the cheap little barcode readers that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}