My library - Google Book Search
I have just been playing with the new features added to Google Book Search. You can search to find books in your own collection and create a personal library on Google books. Same sort of idea as Librarything, but has the benefit of being able to search the text of your own book collection, to import all the details of your own books, just by entering ISBNs, and to have an RSS feed of books you have just added.
All together, some really neat ideas here, particularly if you have lots of out of copyright books - eg old archaeology / local history books!
What is even more amazing is that I found an old MDA book that I wrote, with Tony Gill, and followed the link to WorldCat. This tells me that there are 13 copies in Libraries - including the Getty, Japan and New Zealand. Following the link to Amazon - where I have installed the Talis @libraries toolbar, I see that it is in another few University libraries in the UK.
How sad, and amazing, is all that!
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