Not LibraryThing

[callmemadam]

Has anyone else had a look at Book Rabbit? It seems to be attempting an amalgam of a book shop and a LiveJournal-style community. The page is a horrible mess! They don't make it very clear exactly how you are to join up. There's a so-called helpful video here but it's clear as mud as far as I'm concerned.

I'm not on LibraryThing and I wasn't seriously considering BookRabbit; it just seemed an interesting idea. I see someone has posted a photo of a colour coded bookshelf. What think you of that, ladies and gentlemen?

Comments

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

While I was away, my housemates rearranged the DVD shelves in the living room to be colour coded instead of using the intricate rubric I had developed. It does look very nice, quite soothing, but I do not approve on principle! I liked the pictures of the colour coded bookshop shelves that were going around a while ago, but I couldn't stand not knowing where things were.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you are a librarian at heart.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

They have totally pinched their logo from the unsuccessful telecom of the same name!

Cute photo.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

A bad omen, methinks.

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

I love, love, love the colour-coded bookshelf thing (http://girlyswot.livejournal.com/88109.html). I'm always looking for 'that blue book with the squirly green cover whose title and author escape me.' I think it looks fabulous and would be enormously practical for me. Plus think of the fun you'd have browsing and seeing what ended up next to each other.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

The books certainly make pretty patterns in that picture. Once you'd got rows of orange Penguins, green Viragos and grey Persephones you'd have a lot of 'what colour does this really go with'? Hmm, damn, you've got me looking at my shelves and thinking, now.

Cataloging

[(Anonymous)]

I don't even believe in normal cataloging!! My study has shelves on three sides, floor to ceiling with a lifetime's book collection - nothing thrown away. Everything from engineering, science to art and music scores, old university text books to recent acquisitions, fact and fiction - all jumbled together higgledy piggledy..and I can put my hand on any at a moments notice! Of course nobody but nobody is allowed in - it is my den.

Re: Cataloging

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Impressed by the 'lifetime's collection'! If I'd kept all the books I've ever had, There'd be no room for me here. It did take me about twenty years to decide to throw out old university textbooks, though.