Library Thing

I ran across this website the other day and was immediately intrigued. It allows you to enter your books (by author name, title, ISBN no., etc.) and then can provide you a virtual library of all the books that you possess.

I can hear some of you asking, why in the hell would you want to do that? Well for me, it is a nice reminder of what I have read, authors that I like, books that I would like to read again (I have a pile of six or so right by my desk), but most of all it fulfills my need to sometime create order. This is something I have always seesawed with. There are times when everything around me is chaotic and then I impose strict order, but I am never good enough to maintain the order an things tend to degenerate again.

There is more to library thing that makes it a great time waster: you can look at other libraries, the ever present forums, it will recommend books to you based on your library, there are reviews. All in all its a fun way to waste some time that doesn't involve the omnipresent pron that dominates the net.

Oh yeah. Slainte. Raise a pint this St. Patrick's day for all those who are Irish, all those who were Irish and all those who claim to be Irish, if just for this one day.