I just signed up for a lifetime subscription to LibraryThing.  It’s a very nifty online book cataloging site that keeps a nice record of all of the books you own and with the purchase of a $13 CueCat bar code scanner you can just scan the bar code to import books into your database (no typing!).

If you’d like to see the books I have on my bookshelf just check out my LibraryThing public listing.  Of course I just signed up a few hours ago so it’s just got what I could remember I have off of the top of my head, I’ll be busting out the CueCat soon!.

I also embedded a little searching widget in the sidebar of my blog so you can search my library from here.  At some point when I have time for projects I’d like to build a simple loaning application that would allow me to track who I’ve loaned my books to so I can get them back– I imagine it would be fairly straightforward coding wise.

P.S.  If the person who I lent His Dark Materials to is reading this, please bring it back when you’re done.