{"id":193,"date":"2007-01-08T09:38:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T09:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2007\/01\/08\/library_of_me\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T09:38:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T09:38:01","slug":"library_of_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2007\/01\/08\/library_of_me\/","title":{"rendered":"Library of Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered what occupies space on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog\/NemesisVex\">bookshelf<\/a>? No? Oh. Well &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ryan mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\">LibraryThing<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hawaii\/statuses\/1801623\">Twitter<\/a>, and I gave it a whirl. I don&#8217;t read as many books as I used to, and even my comic book-reading days &#8212; the only type of fiction I&#8217;ve been consuming in the last decade &#8212; has waned significantly. Still, I managed to max out my free account, which caps a user&#8217;s catalog at 200 titles. (My account lists 201, because I deleted a redundant title and added another. Probably a bug.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The interface to add books to your library is quite sleek. You can add a number of sources from which to search and toggle between each. As a result, I could list my esoteric Japanese music books after adding Amazon Japan as a search source. The one-search-fits-all text box accepts ISBNs and barcodes, so I sped through inputting my library with my 10-key mojo. It took an evening to reach the cap.<\/p>\n<p>Impressed with LibraryThing, I gave <a href=\"http:\/\/rateyourmusic.com\/\">Rate Your Music<\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/rateyourmusic.com\/~NemesisVex\">try<\/a>, and I posted my thoughts on that site over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicwhore.org\/entry\/2979\/\">Musicwhore.org<\/a>. If Rate Your Music could emulate LibraryThing&#8217;s interface, I think it would have an easier time integrating with Musicbrainz. I&#8217;m rather astonished RYM doesn&#8217;t use the Amazon web services as a source for data entry.<\/p>\n<p>A lifetime membership to LibraryThing (at this point) is $25. I might seriously consider it despite the fact I&#8217;m not much of a reader these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered what occupies space on my bookshelf? No? Oh. Well &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technophilia-social"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkjq-37","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}