library tools

[deborah]

There are two tools I really wish libraries had, and would pay for as services. Somebody needs to build them. Are you listening, OCLC or LibraryThing?

• NetFlix for ILL. I'd like to be able to queue up a list of books (like my list of books I need to read at worldcat) and have a system where one of them would be ordered for me through interlibrary loan, and each time I returned the book, it would automatically order the next thing on the book for me from interlibrary loan, no more effort from the required.


• I'd like to have a system where other people could add books to that list. In fact, I'd like to have a system where I could subscribe to certain people who recommend books, and everything they recommend would automatically get pushed onto my queue. That way I wouldn't have the system where I leave the tabs open for months and finally add all of the recommended books, slowly and painstakingly, to my queue.

Come on, future. Make up for being a sketchy, racist place full of dying corals and failed drug wars by giving me convenient tools for checking out books from the library.

... When I put it that way, I am clearly an extremely shallow person.

Comments

[deborah]

I should give zotero another try. When I first tried it, it was just in beta, and had real accessibility problems. But since then, Firefox and NaturallySpeaking have gotten much better, and there's no reason to think that Zotero hasn't as well. Thanks for reminding me.

And seriously, how much of my list do you think comes from you? SO MUCH

Of course, I would want to skip that step where people "choose" to subscribe to me.

YOU ARE A MAD GENIUS I TELL YOU.

[sanguinity]

:: YOU ARE A MAD GENIUS I TELL YOU. ::

You say the sweetest things!