Loved the video. That scanner is a great gift. My daughter went through some time ago and tried to count my library. There was about 20,000 at the time. It isn’t catalogued though. Recently a convent gave me all their books. Pretty incredible finds. I have a pretty unique house and built most of my own shelves. This scanner could be a game changer.
I’m getting pretty close to my 1000 books to have an official home library. I’m really close to 600. I found your video because I was lookin for ways to keep track of all my books and Blu-ray’s.. Thank you for sharing!!! 💚🔥
That’s a really neat gift idea! I would imagine this would be of great use for insurance purposes if anything were to ever happen to ur collection. Always good to have proof of your processions.
The app does absolutely work, but I don't know, there's just something very satisfying about using the scanner. For large amounts it does pretty quickly too!
Can you indicate WHICH book shelf each book is on? That would make it helpful to find them. Also, can you look at your list on your phone so you don't buy a duplicate at a thrift store?
You can do 'tags' with Library Thing so that could definitely be used to mark what shelf something is, and yep, they have an app which you can check your list on (or add books with as well)
My collection totals about 300 items with most of the editions dated from 1890 to 1930. Can this system be used to on these older, rarer books? Most of my books don't have the ISBN information of the cover or within the front pages. Does the software allow for the creation and assignment of generated numbers?
Wow that sounds like quite the collection! I believe Librarything lets you manually add books with just like title and author, but I have not tried that so not sure how well that would work!
Seems like a pretty cool way to manage your personal library. I don't know exactly how many I own, but I did a quick count of my physical books and it came out to about 95 (I didn't count my small collection of single issue comics or a couple books I plan to donate, but I did count copies of books I wrote). Of that, I have 21 that I have not read (at least according to what I saved on Goodreads. So, not an amazing percentage for me either haha 😂
I'm up to 348 books and don't think I'm halfway through yet, been mostly using the mobile version of library thing and pointing the phone camera at the barcode. Alas many many of my books are pre-barcode so I've been searching on the ISBN or title or author.
This is really cool! I can't justify something like that because I probably have less than 100 physical books lol. Also thanks for reminding me that 2000 is over 20 years ago, I keep forgetting that fact
I'm looking to do my petsonal library that I use for my classroom. Thank you for your video. I'm looking for a scanner, and love that I can tag books for different themes, topics, etc.
Nice! I’m in the middle of trying to re-catalog my books right now by barcode scanning as well. Have you had any issues with scanning an ISBN and it giving you the totally wrong book? Or just no book at all?
For MMPBs the site I used would direct me to scan the barcode on the inside cover page instead of the one on the back, so had that, but otherwise it worked really well for the most part. Had some with no barcode I had to type the ISBN manually, but only a handful that didn't come up with the right book
@@nikosbookreviews Omg, I just tried the inside barcode and it worked, thank you so much! I was dreading manually inputting all of those. 😅 I’ve been using the BookBuddy app and majority of the time the scanning works but I did have issues w/some MMPB’s…it was old Star Wars “legends” books and I was cursing Disney for it not working like it was their fault lmao I’m still salty they aren’t considered cannon anymore I suppose. 😆
@@alexsedai Glad it worked! The site I used would pop up a message "It looks like you're scanning a MMPB, please use the inside barcode" or I honestly wouldn't have realized!
Thanks for the video. I am going to start cataloging my books. I was debating between Library Thing and Libib. I think I will use Library Thing. I am guessing my ratio of read / not read is much worse than yours! I will find out soon.
Glad the video was helpful! I just stumbled upon Library Thing but it's been super great to use. I feel like my ratio of read to unread is always getting worse because I keep getting more lol
@@nikosbookreviews I can't wait to get started. Hopefully, next week. Once I get my books cataloged, I will let you know my ratio. I understand...so many good books to acquire. The acquisition rate definitely exceeds the read rate!
I started cataloging my book collection in the early 90s when I got my first home computer. Until Jan 2020, I used a word doc that was listed alpha by author last name and included things like series name (when applicable), format and pub date. Everytime I hauled or unhauled books I updated the word doc. My parents thought I was crazy but my OCD self loved it. What changed was me discovering booktube 3 years ago. I had never tracked my reading stats because it had never occurred to me. In Jan 2020 I started using Goodreads and downloaded a spreadsheet a booktuber had created and shared. About a 1.5 years ago, one of Michael Knipp's videos inspired me to create a 'Previously Read' shelf on Goodreads and I spent a lot of time adding books to it. This includes books I no longer own so I am probably still missing some. Then last year, I changed my reading stat spreadsheet to one that has tabs for purchases and unread books. I spent a lot of time updating this spreadsheet as well. Now we come to a few weeks ago when another booktuber showed that scanner you are using in this video. They mentioned scanning barcodes into Goodreads which I had no idea was possible. So, I've spent the past few weeks adding unread books to a new shelf on Goodreads called 'Owned-Unread.' My grand totals for these Goodreads shelves are: Owned-Unread--1064 books Previously Read--1722 So I am *much* worse than you. Lol
@@nikosbookreviews Its scanner is a bit fussy so I found it was easier and faster to just look up each author to mark the unread ones I own. For future purchases, though, I'll scan them since there won't be so many.
I used a program called Readerware years ago that I enjoyed. Today I would probably use CollectorZ book catalogging software because I have used their other software and am familiar with it. I have a scanner called a CueCat which is ancient and not recommended. I stopped cataloging though because I have too many vintage books which predate bar codes and even ISBN codes in some cases and not enough were in the databases.
I definitely had a few like that, but was able to scan most of them! I was surprised by how many didn't have barcodes, or the few that didn't have ISBNs!
@@nikosbookreviews I just make lists in Excel. I also have an Amazon wishlist I use for new books and saved item searches on ebay for hard to find books.
