You may have noticed the little "Random books from my library" thingie on the side of the page.

Browsing about, I happened across this cool thing called LibraryThing. I've been considering writing my own library organization database for awhile now, but when I came across LibraryThing, I figured I'd give it a shot.

Man, is it cool.

I entered some books -- which is very simple and almost addicting. Then I saw this "Similar Libraries" feature. Clicked the link. I saw that Brandon Wason's library (Novum Testamentum) is similar to mine. I ask myself, "what, didn't he blog this?". Used Google's blog search and found out that he did. Too bad I missed it. Bryan Cox (Biblaridion) and I also share some titles.

If you're a bibliophile -- if you're reading this blog, and you've read this entry this far, then you probably are -- check out LibraryThing.com.

I'm making curry tonight (Eli's Rajah Chow curry, man is it tasty!) and entering books while I let stuff simmer. Now that's multitasking!

We'll see if LibraryThing ends up on the list of web services/tools/things that I actually use (along with RealRhapsody and SharpReader). But for now, I'm completely enamored.

Update (2005-10-02): Brandon Wason and Loren Rosson comment about the coolness of LibraryThing. Loren's comment reminds me that I need to be a better citizen of the biblioblogosphere and make sure I keep up with other blogs at least semi-regularly, particularly if they've interacted on ricoblog in the past. So, I headed to bloglines and now have an extended blogroll for the site on the sidebar, which I'll be able to use to catch up on things every so often. Check out a few of the blogs, particularly if you're not familiar with them.