My shelves are organized by size and subject....

Module #9: Virtual Bookshelves

The idea of a virtual bookshelf is an awesome idea for me. I love looking at people's bookshelves and seeing how they shelve their books. It's very interesting to see how people organize things. I decided to go ahead and sign up for Library Thing. When I was checking out the websites, Library Thing appealed to me more. I think it was the way the website was set up.

To sign up for Library Thing, you have to "Verify your humanity by typing the Author of the book" that they show you. Brilliant! After this, I knew I'd found a website that was meant for me. The first thing I did after signing up was put about 60 books in my library. My only problem with doing this, is that I couldn't add multiple books by the same author at once, I had to re-search the author quite a few times. It got pretty tedious. It got even more tedious when I had to go back through and add books to different collections. (My favorite collection is one I created myself: Books I can read in public.) Also there are a lot of ways to catalog the books, and I am looking forward to more in depth cataloging. 


Maybe it was just my habit of skimming through tutorials and not asking for help, but I found Library Thing to not be very user friendly. It took so long to add books and separate them, it was hardly worth it. (Update: I should have taken the tour, since I've started using it, I've found a lot of short cuts and have found it a lot easier to use)


I did find some books that I would like to read, however. I found a few of books I hadn't read by my favorite guilty pleasure author, Julia Quinn: Dancing at Midnight, Everything and the Moon, and Minx. I also found a couple books  by one of my favorite British authors, Isabel Wolff, Out of the Blue and The Very Picture of You, which is her newest one. After I finish this, I'm going to Tipcat to see if we have any of these...