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Originally Posted by srmalloy
That would take quite a while, in my case. Just the paperbacks in the shelves in the living room... say, an inch thick average, nine feet, two deep, six shelves... almost 1300 books, plus the books stacked vertically on the ends, plus the books in the shelves upstairs... then the hardbacks. And that's just the fiction. I could probably break 3000 without working hard once I threw in what I read from the library at college and in the city and school libraries when I was a kid, even discounting overlaps like Wylie & Balmer's When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide, which I first read in a single rebound volume from the school library in, IIRC, 1973, and bought as two paperback volumes about a year ago.
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LibraryThing, Life membership (unlimited bookshelf) and $15 cuecat. You can scan in anything with the ISBN# in no time flat, maybe 5-10 seconds per book, tops. Add more if you want to to the ones where you type in the title, of course, or for organizing (or picking pretty covers), as well. Since yours are probably already grouped in some manner, you can enter some common Tags before you start scanning and it assigns them all as you do the entry (Hardcover, Fiction, Read ... for example).
Once done, you can export the list to play with or view it from anywhere web connected (no more duplicate books, since I can access it via the web on my phone or even the Kindle). The only thing I don't like about LibraryThing is that it doesn't know ASIN's.