There are many sites on the web some of them useful and some of them junk. I've run across a site that I consider very useful. That site is LibraryThing.
For a long time, I've been looking for someplace to catalog the thousands of books in my personal library. Finally, I've found it and surprise, surprise it's free for the first 200 books you catalog. Best of all it's only $25 for a lifetime membership with an unlimited catalog.
You may be asking, "Doesn't it take a long time to catalog a large library?" The short answer is no. Specifically, you can enter your books by hand, you can upload an spreadsheet with all of your ISBNs, or you can search by title or author from the Amazon.com catalog, Library of Congress, or 82 other library and business catalogs. The search and add function is fastest for those fiction series by the same author.
You can also add your own tags to books, make your library public or private, post reviews, keep track of favorite authors, and participate in discussions. In other words this is a great time waster of a site, if you allow it to become so.
One of the features that I like is the ability to download you library catalog. They also have widgets you can add to your website or blog to show and search your catalog. You can also get suggestions for books or authors based upon what you have in your library.
Privacy on this site seems to be of importance to the owners. They allow you to set up what you want to make public and what you'd prefer to keep private.
All in all, it is a site well worth checking out if you are a reader, author, librarian or publisher.
Enjoy,
-phil
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