[pilotbob]

Hi All...

I was wondering what you all use to keep track of all the books, treeBooks and eBooks that you read.

I was looking at the Groqit.com device. It looks interesting.

I am also a member of LibraryThing.com I 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.

Here is why I was looking at the Groqit device. 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.

Well, it's not so much an issue with eBooks. But, still not all books are eBooks. 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.

I would also like to see a service this Groqit or LibraryThing able to connect to my eBook stores and be able to get my history from each store and add the books to my person inventory.

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

One even better service would be for me to be able to get book recos based on my library (a la LibraryThing) AND be able to search all the eBook stores I have registered with them to find the book, at the best price in a format that my device(s) support. Is this asking to much?

BOb