To maids alone and children are revealed:
I finished Huckleberry Finn last night. It was good.
I’m thinking of setting up a thingy at LibraryThing. It’s just my kind of anal-retentive collecting thing, and it’d be reasonably easy for me to import my current book database. However, I’m missing a few pieces of important data — namely, ISBNs for all my books, and ratings for them as well. I’d like to have those for when I import, so that I may get all the data in there at once. So, I started the process last night by writing up some code to let me easily rate all the books in my DB. I was surprised how many I could remember — those I was very stuck on usually just took a Google or Amazon search to remember the general topic and my feelings on the book at the time of my reading it. I’m working on some code now to add those ratings to display in my book list webpage, and then I’ll get going on something help me figure out all the ISBNs. I’ve already written tools to help me look up DVDs in IMDb, and to look up author URLs in Google, so this shouldn’t be anything too incredibly cumbersome. After that, uploading things to LibraryThing should be simple. I’ll link to my library there here once it’s ready.
I’m now reading Heinlein’s The Rolling Stones. Great stuff.
Hey. Saw your post on Google blog search. If you do something and it works pretty well, how about you post it and I link to it? Anyway, good luck.
I would, but the thing I’m writing would be pretty specific to my own idiosyncratic book database format. It’s also going to run as a cgi on my local machine, so it would be fairly difficult for others to run.
However, once I get more into the community there, I’d be glad to help out where I could.