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So I too went ape poopey when Delicious Library came out last year, thinking at the very least it would be a fun, addictive way to develop a digital database for my book collection. Trouble is, that’s about it’s good for. You scan your books in, Delicious Library makes then look all pretty and they just sit there.
When Steve Rhodes tipped my off about Library Thing a few weeks ago, I didn’t pay much attention. I wasn’t that interested in rescanning my whole library just so I could have them on a web-based system instead of sitting on my hard drive. But the other day, I was in my converted closet of a library trying to remember what novel I had bought 10 years ago was a little like The Moviegoer but wasn’t exactly The Moviegoer and but was in some anthology with another Walker Percy something and then it hit me.
Tags. If I could search my library using the tags “anthology, moviegoer, film” I could see how my books related to one another. Which is what I was missing and what Delicious Library is as well.
So long DL. It was nice sort of knowing you.