[LMB] AKICOTL: Book db's / Tracking tools

[Nancy L. Barber]

At 12:49 PM -0800 12/23/07, The Sundance Kid wrote:
>I know this has been brought up a few times, and can't remember 
>enough details to track it down... My grandfather is a computer 
>novice book fiend. He's got a laptop now, and wants a way to create 
>lists of books he wants to read, mark when he's read them, add to 
>things, etc. His library's software seems fairly limited. It will do 
>author searches, but not allow him to save things in a "queue" of 
>sorts.
>  ... An online tool would be best, since I'm remote-supporting it 
>from about 1,500 miles away.
>

For an online tool, I'm using LibraryThing, and I think it will meet
his requirements.  He would have to use tags to indicate 'want to
read' and 'read', but it does hold lists of books, is very easy
for input of books with an ISBN (less easy for older volumes,
but do-able), and supports private comments on each book.
http://www.librarything.com/

I also use Readerware as an off-line tool (I keep my library inventory
in Readerware, and export the ISBNs over to LibraryThing), so if
that's got more of the features he might need, take a look. It allows
more options for user-defined fields, and has easier input for
the older non-ISBN volumes.  http://www.readerware.com

    Nancy Barber