Thanks to Superpatron I am now aware of GuruLib - whose design I appreciate for the visual simplicity in sorting by location, and format (book, music, movie, game, software), but again I can't see a way to
Rana's comment prompted me to go have another look so I could be as clear as possible in clarification. My guess is restricted by not seeing behind the scenes because I don't want to provide all the details required to sign up.
Compare:
LibraryThing requires: username + password
GuruLib requires: First name, last name, gender, GuruLibID, password, and in case you lose your password personal security question and answer, date of birth, zipcode and email address.
By perusing top users libraries I've noticed that it is possible to sort items by best or new price for which there must be fields, so perhaps it would be possible to extract the information I would use: an estimated total replacement value of my library (for insurance).
I also noticed that some users created subject 'shelves' instead of physical location shelves - neat if not quite the flexibility of tags.
Thankyou for your comment Rana. I am enjoying the evidence that my little post was noticed. (How did it come to your attention? and how will you see whether I answer your question?).
ReplyDeleteI could perhaps have expressed my need more clearly, so I'm going to edit my post with, hopefully, more clarity.