So far, we share only 4 books (including "Wordplay" and NPL cryptics) but then again, I wouldn't expect you to have so much chick lit. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ennie
How well are you finding the CueCat working? I've been typing my books in manually and it feels like it will take forever. Admittedly, part of that is because I've already had to go to foreign sources several times (and no Russian source, alas), but that's partly a function of which shelves I've entered so far.
When the books have EAN Bookland barcodes, the CueCat is a great timesaver -- I can whip through a stack of books in about 3 seconds per book. I'd estimate that about 40% of my books can be scanned; another 40% have the ISBN clearly printed on the back cover but have only a UPC or no barcode at all.
The rest I have to look inside to find: an ISBN if I'm lucky, an LOC number if I'm slightly less lucky, and no help at all in a bunch of cases. Many of my Hebrew books lack ISBNs altogether, and a surprisingly large number of my English Judaica have ISBNs but can't be located in the various databases.
The Israel Union Library (from the additional sources) is at least moderately useful and might have some of the English-language Judaica. I managed to find three Hebrew easy reading books there by using the author or title search with that as he source.
Typing in LOC numbers is actually easier than typing in ISBNs. Fewer digits, so I'm less likely to make a mistake.
And I realized much of what it taking me so long is that I've been putting in tags as I go along, mostly to tag the locations of my books.
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Date: 2007-12-23 07:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-23 07:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-23 12:51 pm (UTC)I haven't hit the main reference shelves yet; I did get the satellite reference shelf. (So, for example, there's the small Baus but not the big Baus.)
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Date: 2007-12-23 04:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-12-24 05:01 am (UTC)The rest I have to look inside to find: an ISBN if I'm lucky, an LOC number if I'm slightly less lucky, and no help at all in a bunch of cases. Many of my Hebrew books lack ISBNs altogether, and a surprisingly large number of my English Judaica have ISBNs but can't be located in the various databases.
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Date: 2007-12-24 11:04 am (UTC)Typing in LOC numbers is actually easier than typing in ISBNs. Fewer digits, so I'm less likely to make a mistake.
And I realized much of what it taking me so long is that I've been putting in tags as I go along, mostly to tag the locations of my books.