I actually have used both Goodreads and LibraryThing - after attempting to list my books through some other random non-book site! I found Goodreads to difficult to use - when I wanted to do something, I ended up not because I was thinking in dread of using the site. :s Plus, I agree, it's not nearly enough record keeping.
I ended up finding LibraryThing much easier to use. Actually, *super* easy to use. While I've had mine for a while (I actually signed up almost two years ago, got excited and got a paid account - which is interesting because they give you a whole range of 'price you want to pay' for a paid account/permanent account - forget I had it, and rediscovered it a few months ago.) I've very slowly as work permits been adding a few books at a time, so I haven't actually used all the features, but they have a lot of nice features.
For one thing, you can sort the books in your library by just about anything - author, title, publishing date, date added, genre, rating, and the tags you've assigned it. You can even sort them by series and decimal system, and others I haven't played with yet. Plus, they have collections - like 'your books', 'wishlist', 'to read', 'read but unowned', etc. - and you can add your own collections.
In the individual book section, you can use tags (I actually have tags saying how I acquired the book), and they allow you to make both public notes and private notes as well as reviews. You can enter the date you got the book, and reading dates, as many as you want (now that's cooooool).
One thing I love is that you can edit almost all of the information about the book so that it's actually the book you have. I really hate having a book picked that has the wrong cover from my copy, or it's a different edition, or the size is different - all those things. Thus, I can go in and make sure every detail matches my copy.
Overall, LibraryThing seems to really really love stats and data. They've got a whole page just for that, plus numbers scattered all over every single page, which I enjoy.
Oh, and there's a large networking section too, which I haven't even looked at since I'm not interested in it at all, so the good news is that if you couldn't care less about that part, it still functions perfectly well for just record keeping.
I'd recommend giving it a try, just signing up and poking around it for a while. At the most, you'll have wasted an afternoon if it's not right for you, but then again, it might be just what you're looking for. And if you have questions about it, I might be able to answer some of them. (Though I'm hardly an expert!)
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Date: 2011-07-19 04:03 pm (UTC)I ended up finding LibraryThing much easier to use. Actually, *super* easy to use. While I've had mine for a while (I actually signed up almost two years ago, got excited and got a paid account - which is interesting because they give you a whole range of 'price you want to pay' for a paid account/permanent account - forget I had it, and rediscovered it a few months ago.) I've very slowly as work permits been adding a few books at a time, so I haven't actually used all the features, but they have a lot of nice features.
For one thing, you can sort the books in your library by just about anything - author, title, publishing date, date added, genre, rating, and the tags you've assigned it. You can even sort them by series and decimal system, and others I haven't played with yet. Plus, they have collections - like 'your books', 'wishlist', 'to read', 'read but unowned', etc. - and you can add your own collections.
In the individual book section, you can use tags (I actually have tags saying how I acquired the book), and they allow you to make both public notes and private notes as well as reviews. You can enter the date you got the book, and reading dates, as many as you want (now that's cooooool).
One thing I love is that you can edit almost all of the information about the book so that it's actually the book you have. I really hate having a book picked that has the wrong cover from my copy, or it's a different edition, or the size is different - all those things. Thus, I can go in and make sure every detail matches my copy.
Overall, LibraryThing seems to really really love stats and data. They've got a whole page just for that, plus numbers scattered all over every single page, which I enjoy.
Oh, and there's a large networking section too, which I haven't even looked at since I'm not interested in it at all, so the good news is that if you couldn't care less about that part, it still functions perfectly well for just record keeping.
I'd recommend giving it a try, just signing up and poking around it for a while. At the most, you'll have wasted an afternoon if it's not right for you, but then again, it might be just what you're looking for. And if you have questions about it, I might be able to answer some of them. (Though I'm hardly an expert!)