Ask post: PIRGThing

Hey - LibraryThing's librarian here. Films. The fields on LibraryThing are optimized for books now. You can add movies and music (and people certainly do), but it's not quite as smooth as it is for books. That said, better support for other media is on our to-do list... The best way to give id numbers and to track lending is to use tags (although a 'loan' system is also on the master to-do list, if you're willing to wait). You could also try Gurulib, I think they have a system to track... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ablachly at 10:00 PM on December 14, 2006

what do you do when the website is unreachable, gets bought by Satan and turned into a perfume shilling site or decides it can make more money cataloging soup labels?

Oh, a future of cataloging soup labels! In all seriousness, LibraryThing is big on the "your data is your own" philosophy - you can export your catalog into Excel, for example, and then upload it into another cataloging program, or just play with it on your desktop.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ablachly at 2:14 PM on December 15, 2006