My friend has just launched his 2ManyBooks website to the public. I asked a while back for book people to get in touch and it was for this… Long story short its a place to catalogue your books and it does some really lovely things. If you’re a book person have a click and let us know what you think… You can then download insurance docs for all your books etc etc…
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Small piece of feedback. Personally would find it preferable if the landing page was ‘About us’ rather than ‘Sign up’. Seems a little incongruous to have to sign up before learning more? 
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Found you can click the “about us” link at the top left and circumvent sign up if you want to know more before giving your deets. Lands you here:
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My dad would love this, but I guarantee the words ‘a social network’ would make him close the tab immediately. Maybe not the target market after all.
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I did see that. Still prefer to see what’s what first…
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This is good feedback. Let me know as you move through. I think records could be an easy flip…
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Is community better? Like us : )
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I think they might struggle to get people to make the jump from the free basic sub to paid.
For me the basic allowance of 25 listings isn’t really enough to get me sufficiently engaged to commit to $5 a month for what seems to be a user generated database.
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I was really excited for this - this sort of thing is right up my alley - have a ton of books and have looked at selling off a few/getting insurance when we move to Europe in a few years. Sadly I found the UX a bit wonky, and when I tried importing my library it added wrong editions and books that I don’t even own. Then it deleted the few books I’d added manually. Perhaps it will be ideal for tracking valuation of the odd art monograph, but given the hiccups I’d hesitate to put more time into using it until they have it worked out…
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i have no idea what or when i paid for discogs, but it was long ago (and it was cheap) and it keeps the ads off. and now that they have their marketplace and skim off every sale, they don’t even push discogs as a subscription. i don’t think i’ve “paid” for it in years, if ever?
2MB might consider the same thing. $30 a month for those with more than 1k books seems seems a bit punitive to the power user.
it’s a very pretty website, though i will also mention that when adding a book via manual search, the UX is bit wonky. it wants to complete your search string for you by jumping to a results page, but it sort of jumps back and forth and moves the search box around.
i’ll play around with it a bit more. i love books but absolutely am not a collector, and probably own less than 500 (i tend to give them away, which obvs i never do with my records 
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I want it to be called 2many readies, or something that someone more cleverer than me can come up with that properly rhymes DJ’s with a books adjacent word 
I pay $60/year to CellarTracker which does something similar for wine - totally worth it if you have more than a few hundred bottles.
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