That’s a really neat gift idea! I would imagine this would be of great use for insurance purposes if anything were to ever happen to ur collection. Always good to have proof of your processions.
Loved the video. That scanner is a great gift. My daughter went through some time ago and tried to count my library. There was about 20,000 at the time. It isn’t catalogued though. Recently a convent gave me all their books. Pretty incredible finds. I have a pretty unique house and built most of my own shelves. This scanner could be a game changer.
I’m getting pretty close to my 1000 books to have an official home library. I’m really close to 600. I found your video because I was lookin for ways to keep track of all my books and Blu-ray’s.. Thank you for sharing!!! 💚🔥
I'm looking to do my petsonal library that I use for my classroom. Thank you for your video. I'm looking for a scanner, and love that I can tag books for different themes, topics, etc.
I started cataloging my book collection in the early 90s when I got my first home computer. Until Jan 2020, I used a word doc that was listed alpha by author last name and included things like series name (when applicable), format and pub date. Everytime I hauled or unhauled books I updated the word doc. My parents thought I was crazy but my OCD self loved it. What changed was me discovering booktube 3 years ago. I had never tracked my reading stats because it had never occurred to me. In Jan 2020 I started using Goodreads and downloaded a spreadsheet a booktuber had created and shared. About a 1.5 years ago, one of Michael Knipp's videos inspired me to create a 'Previously Read' shelf on Goodreads and I spent a lot of time adding books to it. This includes books I no longer own so I am probably still missing some. Then last year, I changed my reading stat spreadsheet to one that has tabs for purchases and unread books. I spent a lot of time updating this spreadsheet as well. Now we come to a few weeks ago when another booktuber showed that scanner you are using in this video. They mentioned scanning barcodes into Goodreads which I had no idea was possible. So, I've spent the past few weeks adding unread books to a new shelf on Goodreads called 'Owned-Unread.' My grand totals for these Goodreads shelves are: Owned-Unread--1064 books Previously Read--1722 So I am *much* worse than you. Lol
@@nikosbookreviews Its scanner is a bit fussy so I found it was easier and faster to just look up each author to mark the unread ones I own. For future purchases, though, I'll scan them since there won't be so many.
Seems like a pretty cool way to manage your personal library. I don't know exactly how many I own, but I did a quick count of my physical books and it came out to about 95 (I didn't count my small collection of single issue comics or a couple books I plan to donate, but I did count copies of books I wrote). Of that, I have 21 that I have not read (at least according to what I saved on Goodreads. So, not an amazing percentage for me either haha 😂
I'm up to 348 books and don't think I'm halfway through yet, been mostly using the mobile version of library thing and pointing the phone camera at the barcode. Alas many many of my books are pre-barcode so I've been searching on the ISBN or title or author.
The app does absolutely work, but I don't know, there's just something very satisfying about using the scanner. For large amounts it does pretty quickly too!
Can you indicate WHICH book shelf each book is on? That would make it helpful to find them. Also, can you look at your list on your phone so you don't buy a duplicate at a thrift store?
You can do 'tags' with Library Thing so that could definitely be used to mark what shelf something is, and yep, they have an app which you can check your list on (or add books with as well)
Thanks for the video. I am going to start cataloging my books. I was debating between Library Thing and Libib. I think I will use Library Thing. I am guessing my ratio of read / not read is much worse than yours! I will find out soon.
Glad the video was helpful! I just stumbled upon Library Thing but it's been super great to use. I feel like my ratio of read to unread is always getting worse because I keep getting more lol
@@nikosbookreviews I can't wait to get started. Hopefully, next week. Once I get my books cataloged, I will let you know my ratio. I understand...so many good books to acquire. The acquisition rate definitely exceeds the read rate!
I used a program called Readerware years ago that I enjoyed. Today I would probably use CollectorZ book catalogging software because I have used their other software and am familiar with it. I have a scanner called a CueCat which is ancient and not recommended. I stopped cataloging though because I have too many vintage books which predate bar codes and even ISBN codes in some cases and not enough were in the databases.
I definitely had a few like that, but was able to scan most of them! I was surprised by how many didn't have barcodes, or the few that didn't have ISBNs!
@@nikosbookreviews I just make lists in Excel. I also have an Amazon wishlist I use for new books and saved item searches on ebay for hard to find books.
My collection totals about 300 items with most of the editions dated from 1890 to 1930. Can this system be used to on these older, rarer books? Most of my books don't have the ISBN information of the cover or within the front pages. Does the software allow for the creation and assignment of generated numbers?
Wow that sounds like quite the collection! I believe Librarything lets you manually add books with just like title and author, but I have not tried that so not sure how well that would work!
This is really cool! I can't justify something like that because I probably have less than 100 physical books lol. Also thanks for reminding me that 2000 is over 20 years ago, I keep forgetting that fact
Nice! I’m in the middle of trying to re-catalog my books right now by barcode scanning as well. Have you had any issues with scanning an ISBN and it giving you the totally wrong book? Or just no book at all?
For MMPBs the site I used would direct me to scan the barcode on the inside cover page instead of the one on the back, so had that, but otherwise it worked really well for the most part. Had some with no barcode I had to type the ISBN manually, but only a handful that didn't come up with the right book
@@nikosbookreviews Omg, I just tried the inside barcode and it worked, thank you so much! I was dreading manually inputting all of those. 😅 I’ve been using the BookBuddy app and majority of the time the scanning works but I did have issues w/some MMPB’s…it was old Star Wars “legends” books and I was cursing Disney for it not working like it was their fault lmao I’m still salty they aren’t considered cannon anymore I suppose. 😆
@@alexsedai Glad it worked! The site I used would pop up a message "It looks like you're scanning a MMPB, please use the inside barcode" or I honestly wouldn't have realized!
That’s a really neat gift idea! I would imagine this would be of great use for insurance purposes if anything were to ever happen to ur collection. Always good to have proof of your processions.
Very good point! Nice to have a list for that reason too
Loved the video. That scanner is a great gift. My daughter went through some time ago and tried to count my library. There was about 20,000 at the time. It isn’t catalogued though. Recently a convent gave me all their books. Pretty incredible finds. I have a pretty unique house and built most of my own shelves. This scanner could be a game changer.
Oh my gosh! Yeah with those kind of numbers a scanner would definitely help! Still would probably take quite a while to get them all scanned though!
I’m getting pretty close to my 1000 books to have an official home library. I’m really close to 600. I found your video because I was lookin for ways to keep track of all my books and Blu-ray’s.. Thank you for sharing!!! 💚🔥
Glad it was helpful!
I'm looking to do my petsonal library that I use for my classroom. Thank you for your video. I'm looking for a scanner, and love that I can tag books for different themes, topics, etc.
Glad it was helpful!
I started cataloging my book collection in the early 90s when I got my first home computer. Until Jan 2020, I used a word doc that was listed alpha by author last name and included things like series name (when applicable), format and pub date. Everytime I hauled or unhauled books I updated the word doc. My parents thought I was crazy but my OCD self loved it.
What changed was me discovering booktube 3 years ago. I had never tracked my reading stats because it had never occurred to me. In Jan 2020 I started using Goodreads and downloaded a spreadsheet a booktuber had created and shared.
About a 1.5 years ago, one of Michael Knipp's videos inspired me to create a 'Previously Read' shelf on Goodreads and I spent a lot of time adding books to it. This includes books I no longer own so I am probably still missing some.
Then last year, I changed my reading stat spreadsheet to one that has tabs for purchases and unread books. I spent a lot of time updating this spreadsheet as well.
Now we come to a few weeks ago when another booktuber showed that scanner you are using in this video. They mentioned scanning barcodes into Goodreads which I had no idea was possible. So, I've spent the past few weeks adding unread books to a new shelf on Goodreads called 'Owned-Unread.'
My grand totals for these Goodreads shelves are:
Owned-Unread--1064 books
Previously Read--1722
So I am *much* worse than you. Lol
Apparently I need to step up my game! I actually didn't realize Goodreads let you scan the books on, that's good to know as well!
@@nikosbookreviews Its scanner is a bit fussy so I found it was easier and faster to just look up each author to mark the unread ones I own. For future purchases, though, I'll scan them since there won't be so many.
Seems like a pretty cool way to manage your personal library. I don't know exactly how many I own, but I did a quick count of my physical books and it came out to about 95 (I didn't count my small collection of single issue comics or a couple books I plan to donate, but I did count copies of books I wrote). Of that, I have 21 that I have not read (at least according to what I saved on Goodreads. So, not an amazing percentage for me either haha 😂
Hey under 100 is a very reasonable number I'd say!
I'm up to 348 books and don't think I'm halfway through yet, been mostly using the mobile version of library thing and pointing the phone camera at the barcode. Alas many many of my books are pre-barcode so I've been searching on the ISBN or title or author.
Glad it's mostly working out! I did have a good few with no barcode but was able to find most!
I have done this, but I use the iphone app and use the scanner on my phone. 500+ books. BUt I like your scanner...I might buy one...
The app does absolutely work, but I don't know, there's just something very satisfying about using the scanner. For large amounts it does pretty quickly too!
Can you indicate WHICH book shelf each book is on? That would make it helpful to find them. Also, can you look at your list on your phone so you don't buy a duplicate at a thrift store?
You can do 'tags' with Library Thing so that could definitely be used to mark what shelf something is, and yep, they have an app which you can check your list on (or add books with as well)
Thanks for the video. I am going to start cataloging my books. I was debating between Library Thing and Libib. I think I will use Library Thing.
I am guessing my ratio of read / not read is much worse than yours! I will find out soon.
Glad the video was helpful! I just stumbled upon Library Thing but it's been super great to use. I feel like my ratio of read to unread is always getting worse because I keep getting more lol
@@nikosbookreviews I can't wait to get started. Hopefully, next week. Once I get my books cataloged, I will let you know my ratio. I understand...so many good books to acquire. The acquisition rate definitely exceeds the read rate!
I used a program called Readerware years ago that I enjoyed. Today I would probably use CollectorZ book catalogging software because I have used their other software and am familiar with it. I have a scanner called a CueCat which is ancient and not recommended. I stopped cataloging though because I have too many vintage books which predate bar codes and even ISBN codes in some cases and not enough were in the databases.
I definitely had a few like that, but was able to scan most of them! I was surprised by how many didn't have barcodes, or the few that didn't have ISBNs!
@@nikosbookreviews I just make lists in Excel. I also have an Amazon wishlist I use for new books and saved item searches on ebay for hard to find books.
My collection totals about 300 items with most of the editions dated from 1890 to 1930. Can this system be used to on these older, rarer books? Most of my books don't have the ISBN information of the cover or within the front pages. Does the software allow for the creation and assignment of generated numbers?
Wow that sounds like quite the collection! I believe Librarything lets you manually add books with just like title and author, but I have not tried that so not sure how well that would work!
Love this idea!! I think my unread situation would be much much much worse
See this is why you need to share your numbers so I feel better about mine lmao
This is really cool! I can't justify something like that because I probably have less than 100 physical books lol.
Also thanks for reminding me that 2000 is over 20 years ago, I keep forgetting that fact
It felt weird to say that! My brain wanted that to be like ten years ago lol
Can I track this list with this scanner on a phone app? Because when I’m out and about I need a reference so I don’t buy a book twice or thrice! Lol
Yep! I actually just recently tried the app and it does give you access to your whole list on the go and actually lets you scan using your phone too!
@@nikosbookreviews thanks!!
I have over 5000, the isbn reader would come handy.
Oh wow! Yeah I bet it would!
Nice! I’m in the middle of trying to re-catalog my books right now by barcode scanning as well. Have you had any issues with scanning an ISBN and it giving you the totally wrong book? Or just no book at all?
For MMPBs the site I used would direct me to scan the barcode on the inside cover page instead of the one on the back, so had that, but otherwise it worked really well for the most part. Had some with no barcode I had to type the ISBN manually, but only a handful that didn't come up with the right book
@@nikosbookreviews Omg, I just tried the inside barcode and it worked, thank you so much! I was dreading manually inputting all of those. 😅 I’ve been using the BookBuddy app and majority of the time the scanning works but I did have issues w/some MMPB’s…it was old Star Wars “legends” books and I was cursing Disney for it not working like it was their fault lmao I’m still salty they aren’t considered cannon anymore I suppose. 😆
@@alexsedai Glad it worked! The site I used would pop up a message "It looks like you're scanning a MMPB, please use the inside barcode" or I honestly wouldn't have realized!
Interesting video!! 🕸⚔️ happy spooky reading to you!!!🎃⚔️👻☠️
Pretty neat!
It's not much use, if many of your books and documents stem from the days before bar-codes came in!
I ran into a couple, but yeah it that the case it would take a lot longer for sure!
I need one of these😊
Another commenter said I'm supposed to get your wife to get you one lol
Thanks have it on good authority your wife is dope
She's a keeper alright!
No ISBN, supper old!!!! 😂😂😂
Please send the scanner to Andrew's wife so she can make him do this.
Lol I did tell him about it for sure!
I subscribe to the read a book, buy two to three more.
Lol, yep, that's pretty much how it is for me too!