{"id":4909,"date":"2009-05-05T13:48:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T13:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/05\/organizing-a-library.html"},"modified":"2009-05-05T13:48:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T13:48:51","slug":"organizing-a-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/05\/organizing-a-library.html","title":{"rendered":"Organizing a Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Library.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/imgs\/Library.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;float: right\" height=\"308\" width=\"398\" \/><\/span>For more than 30 years I have bought books, entered them onto a master list of books in my library, filled out 3&#215;5 cards (which I quit doing a few years back), read them and shelved them. But all of this has become electronic. Some are storing things in cyberspace. <\/p>\n<p>Just today a friend of mine asked me about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\">Library Thing<\/a>. I had never heard of it that I could recall. Should I know about it? <\/p>\n<p><b>What do folks think of Library Thing and what are good resources out there for organizing a library?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 30 years I have bought books, entered them onto a master list of books in my library, filled out 3&#215;5 cards (which I quit doing a few years back), read them and shelved them. But all of this has become electronic. Some are storing things in cyberspace. 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