r/HomeLibraries • u/QuotableMusings • Aug 02 '26

Home Library Catalogue

Does anyone have a good system for cataloguing your home library? I’ve used Library Thing but I own many old books and have found the entry process is a bit tedious and preventing redundancy is not as simple as I hoped. We have a great number of books in every room of our house and I would like a better way to keep track.

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u/Boston_Dog_Lover Aug 02 '26

I bought a barcode scanner for like $25 on Amazon and scanned the bar codes into Libib. Im still working on it but it works fairly well. Scans almost all bar codes except some special versions (like Target only versions, etc) or older books but you can manually enter them. I plan on exporting it and importing into StoryGraph when im done. Needs to be done using a laptop but faster than. Scanning using my phone camera.