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Originally Posted by Nigel
I've been thinking of using the free tools on the Groqit site to keep track of my growing e-library, read and unread.
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Have you looked at librarything.com? I have an account there. Just haven't had time to enter all my books by hand. I have a cuecat scanner but it has a ps2 keyboard connection, not USB so it doesn't work in any of our current computers.
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Originally Posted by Nigel
What do you have in mind Bob? How would you use it? How many books would you need to keep track of? At the most basic level, you could type in the info. I don't have the patience to do this but I'm pretty sure one could import from Windows Explorer > Excel > Groqit.
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Well, it's not so much an issue with eBooks. But, still not all books are eBooks. I read all of the Star Trek series, there used to be several active ones, they seem to have slowed down alot. Anyway... every now and then, when my wife was at Walmart or somewhere she would see some of the new releases on the rack. She would get them for me. A few times she got ones that I already had.
Most of the other books I can generally remember... but after years of reading books and you hear about a book, sometimes it sounds familliar and I would like to check to see if I have read it. Library Thing would work well once I get everything I own/read in there.
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If there's some functionality that should be added to the Groqit software for e-books, I could at least get the word to them. I worked with one of their developers in another company and we're still in touch.
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I think it would take a combination of each eBook site having some type of web service that exposed the books that you have bought from them. So, if you use the Kindle and buy 100% of your books from them, it is pretty easy to look in your media library. But, it would be nice if there was a way that all of my purchases from Sony, Sci-Az, Steve Joren, BAEN, etc, (and d/l's) could be accumluated in one place
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