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I would check out https://www.librarything.com/ https://www.librarything.com/ also. They have a decent app for scanning barcodes and retrieve data from multiple
by profsnuggles 7y ago
I would check out https://www.librarything.com/ https://www.librarything.com/ also. They have a decent app for scanning barcodes and retrieve data from multiple sources. Their own database which consists of lots of imported marc records from university libraries I believe, library of congress, amazon, etc. Then they have another project librarycat where you can set up your books as a lending library.
Cataloging a large number of books is not going to be an easy process unless they are all relatively new popular books. According to librarything my library is 439 books, every few years I delete my catalog and re-import them it takes about a full weekend. Older books don't have barcodes, old paperbacks have the ISBN barcode on the inside cover. Some books don't have ISBN numbers or Library of Congress numbers. So you will still end up doing a fair amount of manual entry and searching.
- pronoiac 7y agoI second or third librarything; I've used tags for things like "box1" or "shelf2."
- DaveWalk 7y agoCame here to also recommend LibraryThing. It's been around for 14 years, and the community has lots of similar situations to OP's. Probably a good place to look up anecdotal evidence for this kind of project, too. LibraryThing also hooks into [TinyCat](https://www.librarycat.org/ https://www.librarycat.org/) which can make your database more like a library's.