Comments on: Use Amazon Wishlists to Manage Your Library Lists

By: fred

fred — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:34:23 +0000

Thanks for the tip!

By: Graeme Williams

Graeme Williams — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:42:43 +0000

You can do pretty much the same thing with lists at WorldCat.org, with the added advantage that (assuming your library is a member of OCLC), you can quickly see whether your library has a given book or not. The page for a book has direct links to Amazon, Google Books and your local library (if it has the book). This last means that you can click through in order to check availability or request the book — no bookmarklet necessary.

For each book, there are a number of additional tabs, including tags, reviews from WorldCat users and from Amazon, and a “people who read this also read” list.

Once you create a user account at WorldCat.org, you can create any number of lists and make them public or private. You can add notes to the books in your lists. You can subscribe to other people’s lists.

For each book, you can see how many users have added it to their lists, and go to those lists to browse other possibly related books.

Perhaps it’s now superfluous, but I should add that I really like WorldCat book lists. You can see my lists at http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/lagbolt

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Unit Structures – Amazon to Google Booksearch in one click — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:18:53 +0000

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By: Mike Brown

Mike Brown — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:57:47 +0000

A very useful Firefox extension I use is called Book Burro. For a book you’re viewing on Amazon, it will search various sites such as Powell’s or Half or Amazon’s resellers to find prices for the currently displayed book.

But Book Burro also hooks in to the OCLC WorldCat. Feed in your zip code, and it will tell you if the displayed book is in your local public or college libraries. Neat trick.