In response to spyderella’s post about books and libraries, qmrf writes:
What I really want is a Netflix-style queue, where I can have a few books requested for pickup every week, rather than only having the choice of requesting them *now* or else forgetting what I wanted.
In a better world, everybody would want one of these, and we’d have it.
I think this is a great idea. On the flip side of it, I’ve been thinking lately what I’d really like is the film equivalent of LibraryThing, something I could use to keep track of the movies I’ve seen, or rented, or own. Maybe it could pull cover images from the Internet Movie Database like LibraryThing pulls from Amazon…
Because I really like having an easily accessible catalog of the books I’ve read in a year. Ever since I stopped writing short reviews, I no longer have that for the movies I see.
Hey. The LibraryThing guy here. I thought I’d drop a thought.
LibraryThing will be adding movies one day. But there are problems with making a movie site as good as a book one. Libraries don’t have the same quality film data as book data, even if they had recent movies, which they don’t. And IMDb data isn’t free. Also IMDb already has the social dimension people crave, so it could end up feeling like a low-powered “me too” sort of thing.
Neat, and thanks for stopping by, Tim. Keep in mind, this is just me thinking aloud here. I don’t use a lot of LibraryThing’s features (at least not yet), and I probably wouldn’t use a lot of a movie site’s features. For my purposes, honestly, a simple list of the movies I’ve seen would probably be enough.