[Sca-cooks] 200 best cookbooks and food history books

[Sharon Gordon]

There's an online way to catalog library books at
http://www.librarything.com .  In considering all the wonderous
possibilities of this, it occurred to me that it would be a great way to
create an annotated bibliography of SCA food related books/articles that we
could all read. And any time a new book came out, or someone came across a
new resource, it would be easy to add. The way he has it set up, it's easy
to sort by a variety of categories.

Users have asked for a way to import titles from other databases, and Tim is
working on getting that part up and running.  He's already got the export
working..

I started a library called SCACooks.  Anyone can read it as it's set to
public viewing.  I added a few books to test out how it works.  If you'd
like to add to it, please email.me for info.

Sharon
gordonse at one.net


> -----Original Message-----
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> Anyone like me who's been "meaning to" catalog their library, and has half
an
> hour or so, go posthaste to LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com/
>
> You can sign up for free and catalog up to 200 of your books online by
typing
> just a few words for each book into the "add books" dialog box. When you
click
> "submit" it will present you with a list of likely matches to whatever
author
> names or title words you typed, from the Library of Congress AND Amazon --
> just click on the title that actually belongs to the book you have in YOUR
> library and it gets added to your list.
>
> Furthermore, you can _export_ the results as an Excel file (in text form)
> which means you can easily plug the data in to whatever database format
you
> have. I can't BEGIN to tell you how much pain, agony, and typing in
zillions
> of authors, publishers, dates, ISBNs and so forth this saves! I am _very_
> impressed with this site!
>
> (I'm trying not to sound like a junk-mail testimonial here, but I am
> absolutely boggled by how easy this is compared to the massive cataloging
task
> I've been avoiding for years now......)