{"id":286,"date":"2005-09-26T22:42:08","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=286"},"modified":"2009-10-09T16:57:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T15:57:28","slug":"library_thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2005\/09\/26\/library_thing.php","title":{"rendered":"Library Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for book catalog system for a while now, I&#8217;ve tried a few but all desktop based ones.  The problem with these are that they&#8217;re not platform independent, hard to share with other people, just more things to backup etc etc.<br \/>\nI have been considering writing my own for a while now, today again I figured I should start on this, then I read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\">Library Thing<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/the_thread\/blogspotting\/archives\/2005\/09\/tagging_books.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting\">Blogspotting<\/a>.<br \/>\nLibrary Thing is fairly typical for todays online tools, you add the books by ISBN or title, author etc, it searches Amazon in many countries or the Library of Congress in order to find all the information about the book, including images.  You can tag your photos, it shows tag clouds, author clouds etc and will help you find other people who share your taste in books.<br \/>\nCrucially it has a export function that lets you save your data locally, import into Excel or whatever.  Great site, I put my 170 books into it in about a hour.<br \/>\nYou can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog\/ripienaar\">my catalog<\/a> of books, hopefully soon there will be a API that lets you build on-top of it.  So far I am within the free account limit, but I cannot see why I wont upgrade to a paid account soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for book catalog system for a while now, I&#8217;ve tried a few but all desktop based ones. The problem with these are that they&#8217;re not platform independent, hard to share with other people, just more things to backup etc etc. I have been considering writing my own for a while now, today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}