Week 5 #11

Library Thing

OK, I actually am spending a lot of time learning about the :CueCat which is mentioned on Library thing as a way to scan usbn's directly into their system. Fascinating story about a company (digital convergence) that went belly up because of privacy concerns. The tech savvy market these devices were created for was far more savvy about privacy in the early 00's then the average CVS card user. If you are curious there is information about :cuecats in wikipedia and at http://cexx.org/cuecat.htm and at http://www.digitalconvergence.com/products/index.html and at
http://www.crq.com/ and, of course, at Library Thing.

But... I am actually supposed to talk about Library Thing. ;-)

So, here are the 5 books I added to my library in Library Thing:



Yeah, I kinda like John Steinbeck... People seem to love or hate his work. You know which camp I'm in now.

I may continue to use Library Thing for my personal library. I think I'm going to find it more useful, though, as a way to keep track of the books my book club at the branch covers.