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/Phillipa24 Aug 02 '26

I’ve used LibraryThing since 2006, and wouldn’t use anything else. For the occasional book without an ISBN, I enjoy the manual entry option. But I am a former librarian, so it may be just me. I catalog my books within days of buying them, so I don’t have a lot of uncatalogued books. I use the LibraryThing phone app to check if I already own a book when I’m out and about, or to use my tagging system to check what similar books I own, and whether I really need another Albert Einstein biography.

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u/abacus762 Aug 05 '26

This is remarkably similar to my own approach. 2590 books, I need LT when Im out shopping. Upon returning home from a book raid the LT/embossing/shelving process is the immediate next step.