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I'll second the recommendation for LibraryThing. I wanted to be able to shelve books by LoC call number and this has a pretty good (although not always complete

by dhosek 5y ago

I'll second the recommendation for LibraryThing. I wanted to be able to shelve books by LoC call number and this has a pretty good (although not always complete) lookup for most call numbers (I have learned how to generate a call number for books that don't have them and also discovered that the University of Chicago Library doesn't use the same cutter numbers that the LoC and most other libraries use). LibraryThing's mobile app will scan barcodes just fine. The gotcha is that mass-market paperback before sometime in the 80s (I probably have the date wrong) do not have the ISBN in them. These will need to be entered manually (not to bad with the mobile app which has a dedicated ISBN keyboard). It can also look up by the LOC catalog number (which is not the call number but rather a consecutively assigned number which can be found on the copyright page of books published starting some time in the 1960s). ISBN, by the way, will tell you the format of the book. Paperback and hardcover books have separate ISBNs.

stonecharioteer 5y ago
> ISBN, by the way, will tell you the format of the book. Paperback and hardcover books have separate ISBNs. To add, ISBNs will also tell you the cover of the book. If you have 5 hardcover editions where each has a separate cover image, that's 5 ISBNs. The ISBN corresponds to a specific format of a book, always. Only reprints share an ISBN. And ISBNs also tell you a lot about the book.