When I first joined Librarything, I wanted a similar site for adding DVD/movie titles from my collection as Librarything didn’t cater for anything but books. I found DVDspot and was quite happy, but this site has now closed down, sadly. The other alternative was Listal where you can add lists of collections of books, DVDs, music and games. Pretty cool but it didn’t quite have the same feel. Perhaps I just haven’t explored it enough or tried adding my collections. There’s a now a new site for DVDs at DVDCrate but this is lacking in features and design. No doubt it will improve as time goes on.
At Goodreads, I tend to add only books I’ve read, rather than own. For the movie equivalent (movies I’ve watched) I use IMDB.
I could, of course, compile a list of my DVD collection at home, offline, but this seems too much work and just doesn’t appeal. It would, of course, be safer than having a collection online and losing it with the closure of a website such as DVDspot. In the meantime, my DVDs sit there uncatalogued.
Do any of you have online catalogues of collections? Have you found a good alternative for DVDs?
I don’t use librarything, but why can’t you just use librarything? If it’s as simple as people say then surely you can just start adding them? And audiobooks? And CDs?
It seems silly if you have a online self catalogue that you can’t just add what ever you like.
Last time I visited Librarything (which was some time ago, I admit) there was no facility for adding DVDs and you have to pay to add more than 100? items.
I think it’s 200, which is why I never did anything more… Too Cheap
Just remembered this link http://lifehacker.com/5153795/five-best-movie-cataloging-tools to LifeHacker “5 best movie cataloguing tool”. Libra was reviewed as a favorite.
Excellent, thank you!
You can add DVDs in LibraryThing (and a number of people have) but treats them as books so it’s a bit of a kludge – add [DVD] to the title and tag it DVD.
There’s been a lot of discussion on the LibraryThing forums over the years about adding music and video, but it looks unlikely to happen soon.
You caused me to look through some of these discussions just now and I’m going to try out Take 11 and DVD Corral this evening.
I was also going to comment on the topic of having to pay for LibraryThing. I’m usually too cheap to pay for things too
but I think LibraryThing is totally worth the money I put down for lifetime membership. Not just for the ability to catalogue my books but for all of the extras too (connections, Common Knowledge, etc).
BTW they advertise a certain price (US$25?) but when you go in to pay you have a range of options, ranging from US$19 to US$50. There’s no difference – just think of it as membership plus optional donation.