Cataloging media - books, CDs, DVDs

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

"Mark E. Mallett" <mem at mv.mv.com> writes:
>
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:47:54AM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> > Hello, list!
> > 
> >   Happy Festivus.

Happy Saturnalia/Grav-mass!

> > ABSTRACT
> > 
> >   I have decided I need to catalog my purchased media (books, CDs,
> > DVDs).  I'm seeking solution(s) to this problem.  I figure other
> > people here have already solved this problem.
[...]
> >   C2. Social networking, suggestions, sharing, etc.  I've got no
> > objections to those, provided they don't get in my way.  I'm even
> > likely to find such things useful, but that's not my primary goal.
>
> You list this as a non-requirement. However it seems to me that
> central-site-per-collection-type satisfies social stuff better than
> private collection implementations. Not that that needs to be the
> way it is, in fact it would be great if networked communications were
> part of private collections managers, but that does not seem to be the
> way it is at the moment.  So goodreads is good for books, letterboxd for
> movies, stuff like that.  (I'm on both of those.)

Reminds me of a conversation I had a while ago...:

        http://identi.ca/conversation/53831545

(and, yeah--I did immediately look into getting "thingthing.com",
 and was disappointed to find that the domain was already taken...)

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