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posted by [identity profile] douglas-reay.livejournal.com at 07:39am on 29/03/2008
I can see the birth of a new social activity, similar to an envelope stuffing party.

The book scanning party.

Borrow 4 or 5 scanners. Buy in drink. Invite friends around for an afternoon or evening of attacking your book shelves. Do food.

After several people in your circle of friends have done this, if they are all happy to stick the results in an online database (or some new custom peer to peer thingy, perhaps one designed for music and hacked for books), you'd have the basis for:
* bulk purcheses (20 people want the new Laurel Hamilton? Go for discount)
* book recommendations (hey, everyone has that book but me)
* a meta borrowing library
* dating site (oooh, Ellen's library is 95 % compatible with mine)

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posted by [identity profile] 3c66b.livejournal.com at 08:51am on 29/03/2008
I think we should call it librarything.com.
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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 09:53am on 29/03/2008
I'm aware I could just upload all the ISBNs to librarything, but I didn't especially want to - I have enough daft social networking sites already :)
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posted by [identity profile] 3c66b.livejournal.com at 12:57pm on 29/03/2008
Well, you don't have to use librarything as a daft social networking site -- you can just use it as a reasonably good user interface to a library list.

When I did mine I found I got quite quick at typing ISBNs in by hand, though a bar code reader would definitely have been a bonus for the fraction of our books that actually have them...
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