{"id":985,"date":"2008-11-13T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/13\/985\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T08:06:59","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T15:06:59","slug":"keeping-tracks-of-books-read-and-loanable-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/13\/985\/","title":{"rendered":"keeping tracks of books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So for the past few months I have been keeping track of the books I finished reading. Just a text file with ISBNs and dates. I finally got around to deciding how to expose that online, the choices being to publish it myself or use another website. I was looking for a well-done site that allowed import and export, and hopefully a site that was fairly large already so that it wasn&#8217;t likely to die, and if it had social aspects it could take advantage of the numbers. Turns out there are tons of sites, but I decided to only look at the two biggest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\">LibraryThing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shelfari.com\/\">Shelfari<\/a>, both that I had known of, and both at least partially owned by Amazon now. I decided to go with LibraryThing, because it seems like a much more serious and powerful tool, and the attitude of the company (which does not get along with the other) was much more favourable. You can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/profile\/mfagan\">my profile<\/a> here. There is a limit of 200 books listed for free, but considering my pathetic rate of reading right now, that won&#8217;t be an issue for a long time, at which point I probably won&#8217;t be using LibraryThing anyhow. One minor point is that I think LibraryThing thinks I actually own all these books (I own none of them), whereas Shelfari had options for that.<\/p>\n<p>Actually I added the LibraryThing profile link to <a href=\"http:\/\/faganm.com\/\">my home page<\/a>, but at some point I am going to redo that home page to be more dynamic and actually show information directly on that page via Fireeagle, Google Calendar, and Friendfeed, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So for the past few months I have been keeping track of the books I finished reading. Just a text file with ISBNs and dates. I finally got around to deciding how to expose that online, the choices being to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/13\/985\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[597,593,595,594,596],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-amazon","tag-books","tag-librarything","tag-reading","tag-shelfari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}