Cataloguing Books for Home Library

Tsubasa on 28/04/2024 - 00:12

Hi all

I have amassed a couple hundred books over the years and was hoping to get ideas on how to catalogue them quickly. Ideally an app that can scan the barcode (if there is one) or allow a manual lookup or entry if the book is out of print / too old.

Open to suggestions. TIA.

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  • MS Paint on 28/04/2024 - 00:15

    Plenty of apps that have the features you are after. Have you tried searching your devices app store?

    • Tsubasa on 28/04/2024 - 00:20

      I was looking at "My Library " on Google Play.

      Unfortunately no cloud sync. Keen to hear what other people use.

      Issue for me has been I've bought doubles of books as its hard to keep track of all of them.

      • Tsubasa on 28/04/2024 - 00:24

        Libib and Handy Library are contenders…

  • Hybroid on 28/04/2024 - 00:31
    +4

    If you want clean and simple then TinyCat is the answer based on Libray Thing. It even gives you an online database of your collection and is free for personal use.

    https://www.librarycat.org/

    https://www.librarything.com/

    • Tsubasa on 28/04/2024 - 00:38

      Thanks will check them out.

  • woodg on 28/04/2024 - 00:48
    +1

    I use Readerware. Versions for Server, PC, Mac, Android, etc.

    • Tsubasa on 28/04/2024 - 08:32

      Thanks. A bit pricey but on my shortlist now.

  • Gunnar on 28/04/2024 - 02:22
    +3

    Dewey decimal system

  • ForkSnorter on 28/04/2024 - 07:04
    +1

    What do you need a catalogue for? A couple of hundred books should fit on one or two large bookshelves, so if they’re arranged in some kind of logical order (e.g. separate fiction and non-fiction, then arrange fiction according to genre, and non-fiction according to discipline), then you have the physical catalogue right before your eyes.

    Otherwise, you could rate each book on Goodreads out of 5. Then you not only have a digital catalogue but you can also sort the catalogue by rating. Goodreads has a lot of out-of-print books on it.

    • Tsubasa on 28/04/2024 - 08:35
      +2

      I may be leaning towards a thousand… have been collecting books for a decade or more. My issue is at the last spring clean, I found multiple double ups which I could have avoided with a catalogue.

      Using a thematic order but things get mixed up over time.

  • pjetson on 28/04/2024 - 14:02
    +1

    goodreads.com lets you record all your books on their web site, review them if you feel like it, and can recommend books to you based on what you've read.

  • payless69 on 28/04/2024 - 16:55

    If you read this:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_library_projec…

    And compare what Google holds in their data centers.

    Who do you think will win the race?

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