The New York Public Library Guide to Organizing a Home Library | 
Okay, final post this morning! Over the weekend I discovered an app called Handy Library - Book Organizer. I've tried several apps that allow you enter & organize your own books, including LibraryThing, but this is by far the most user-friendly one I have discovered. I'm totally in love!! You can enter books by scanning the barcode, doing an internet search, or just manually entering the info. All the fields are editable, so for instance I have ⬇️
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) a lot of Kindle books that are reprints of old books. The “published date“ is automatically filled in with when the Kindle edition was published, but it's so easy to just correct it to 1909 or whenever the original was actually printed. You can put in whether books are part of a series & which number of the series they are, mark them as read or not, favorite them, & sort them in all sorts of ways. You create shelves & can filter all the ⬇ 4y
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) books or just the ones from that shelf. It's easy to move books around as well & has a section for adding your own comments & giving them a rating. You can also take a picture of your own book, which means I can have photos of my actual covers of my physical books instead of whatever the stock photo is. So far I've mostly been using it to organize my Kindle books, which are in a constant state of “I have no idea what I own“ & I love it! ⬇ 4y
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) Definitely recommend it if you're looking for a way to organize your home library - oh, it also has a place to mark if you've loaned a book & to who; I saw several user comments from teachers who have been using it to track which students have borrowed books from their classrooms. You can enter up to 100 books for free. If you want more than that, it's only $6 for a lifetime use with unlimited books. If any of you decide to try it, let ⬇ 4y
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) me know what you think - half the reason I didn't get as much reading done this weekend as I wanted to was because I couldn't stop entering books into this app! 😂 I may have a problem!! 4y
wideeyedreader Sadly it looks like this app is only available on Android! 4y
TheAromaofBooks @wideeyedreader - Oooo I didn't think of that! I'm so used to it being the other way - it feels like most things are Apple first & then if we're lucky we get it on Android 😂 4y
wideeyedreader @TheAromaofBooks Lol it happens! I‘ll just have to cross my fingers it comes to Apple someday! 4y
peanutnine I might try this out! I've just started using Library Thing and I don't love it yet, so I wanna compare and see if this is better for me. Thanks for the tip! 4y
TheAromaofBooks @peanutnine - I really like the concept of LibraryThing & I especially like that I can cross it over to my desktop computer for easier editing. I think it would be especially great if my library was comprised of mostly new books with ISBNs to scan. However, almost all of my 1000-odd books are old & Handy Library has been much easier for me to use for manually entering/editing books. I also love that I can export it into a spreadsheet!! 4y
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