So I decided to join LibraryThing and I even ordered a barcode scanner to make things easy.
The barcode scanner is shaped like a cat.
“Um, Mom, that’s not what cats are shaped like. Trust me on this one.” -Mayhem
“They couldn’t make this thing black?” -Chaos
“Nom nom nom – at least its alleged tail is tasty!” -Mayhem
“Really, this would look so much better as a black cat…” -Chaos
I’m with May. If you had asked me, I wouldn’t have guessed “cat”!
Oh this looks like fun… now I need to get my dad to do this library thingy (he has an estimated 6000-7500 books).
Maybe we should ask the Ravelry team to make their site compatible as well… to scan balls of yarn hehehe.
Cheers Eva
Hey! I have that cat-shaped barcode scanner thingy. I wonder if I should dig it out of the box I stuffed it into. Hrm…
Oh, that’s so cool!!! I have to look into that. I can see how the barcode would be totally addictive!
Don’t know if I’d have over 500, but I’d bet pretty close…
Black Sharpie to the rescue!!
All right, so I’m going to go check it out now.
If I started scanning books I’d never get anything else done.
You’d think with all the hip hardware design out there these days they’d have managed something better. But at least the packaging appears to have cats on it – or is that one of your books?
What a wonderful idea – a home barcode scanner! Thanks for the link –
I can see the little question marks above Chaos and May’s heads. 🙂
Chris- Kind of a weird looking cat.
err… it sorta looks like a white mouse.. maybe some black paint would help (grin)
I’m with Teyani. I too thought it was a mouse! Chomp on Chaos!!
Really should be black – or as a second best, pointed for Siamese!
(((hugs)))
I have one of those things but still, the thought of having to take 2,969 books off the shelf to scan in their barcodes, look them up online, and add the books to my “library” is just too scary a prospect!
And, of course, the cat-scanner looks more like a cat when you can see its head….
you gotta barcode the kitties, i know they’ve always wanted to pretend they were packages of nutter butters at the grocery store and get scanned in…
i could be wrong
Knit a little black sweater for your scanner! Hmmm. Maybe that would make it non-functional. OK, how about a black cape?
I used to have that cat/mouuse-shaped barcode scanner thingies. I found it terribly buggie while running with XP.
Interesting – I’m running it under XP Pro and it’s behaving perfectly.
Mayhem has an oral fixation. But I know that isn’t news to you!
I like Knitnana’s idea of making the Cat Scanner Siamese (less work than making it black, and after all, you have two black cats already!) A little Sharpie magic to the ears & toes & there you are. Raaaawr!
Wow. A cat-shaped scanner. What WILL they think of next?
I still get a fatal error when I try to go to Library Things. It kind of creeps me out, what with the whole fatal part and all.
I have one too but I’m frightened to try to use it with Vista…I like the idea of making it a Siamese cue cat!
“Hello, my name is Mayhem and I’m a chronic chewer.”
“Welcome, Mayhem, to your first meeting at Chronic Chewers Anonymous. All cords of the world thank you for taking this first important step.”
Not that I believe May thinks she has a problem…
How cool 🙂 A cat scanner with cats.
So, instead of cataloging the stash of yarn you’ll be cataloging the stash of books. Does this mean you have more books than yarn or vise versa?
well…. my own personal barcode scanner might be enough to overcome my laziness. I think being a librarian makes me even less willing to type info about my books into LibraryThing, since we always either import or scan our data.
A cat scanner?! How appropriate.
Wow, over 700!! You’ve been busy! My question is, how do you manage to store books AND yarn??? A lot of my books have gone to Magers and Quinn since I’ve gotten into knitting, just for the space.
What book is that? It looks like knitted cat toys. Er, toy cats. You know what I mean… PS to Brenda, you’re too funny!
Hey is that book under Knitted Cats and Dogs? I made some of those in the past – I love that book!
What a great idea! With a barcode reader, I might actually use something like Library Thing. I agree with Mayhem, though. It looks more like a ferret. 😉
I’ve not been keeping my Library Thing up to date. I thought I’d keep it and Shelfari going for a while but I guess Shelfari won out for me. But, we had software before for cataloging books, movies, and music and it works with the cuecat. I think I might need to order one…
Okay that is pretty darn cool!
So your ‘catscanning’ brought right to mind this danish tv series I’m so totally in love with, where in the first episode they talk about catscans (my knowledge of Danish is now expanded to ‘ctskanning’, ‘come back’, ‘tak’=thanks). Oh, it’s ‘The Kingdom’, very twisted, a little dark, and very hilarious.
Ummm, cat is sooooo NOT what I thought it looked like! Excuse me, I have to go drag my mind out of the gutter….
That’s a very phallic cat…
Oh come on. You aren’t going to just hand enter them like me and take forever getting them all entered so that it looks like you only have a small number of books and NOT the boxes and boxes of them that are really sitting in storage?
Wow, you are serious abou this book cataloging thing. Your very own barcode scanner; I am impressed 🙂 Look me up sometime @ LibraryThing, I’m kmkat there, too. I don’t use it to catalog my library, though, I start a new account each year to keep track of what I read. This year I have two accounts, one for stuff I’ve read and the other for Did Not Finish.
LOL…I remember the Cue Cat! I remember it used to be free, too…