LibraryThing

LibraryThing.com

About this app

The LibraryThing app allows LibraryThing members to catalog and browse their collections. LibraryThing is focused on books, but you can add most media, including books, DVDs and CDs. LibraryThing relies on data from Amazon, and over 65 million library records.

Add books by searching for them or scanning their ISBN barcode with the camera.

Add high-resolution cover photos of your books with the cover editor and browse your books by cover type to find copies that need better covers.

Ratings and reviews

The desktop site is phenomenal but the app is atrocious. It crashes every time I remove a book from the library, double scans almost everything, and when searching for books the thumbnails never display. I have to go back into my library to see if the right edition was added. It's a shame, I like LT more than its competitors, but the app seems all but abandoned.

LT is a great tool, and their site is easy to use. That being said, this is possibly the worst app I've tried to use in years. The scan function in particular is totally disfunctional: after quite a bit of fiddling, I finally got a barcode to scan. The relevant book was added to my collection three times. When I try to remove the copies, the app closes itself. Truly impressive levels of jank at work, here. Just use the website, and use the Libib app if you want a functional scanner.

I'm just getting started but so far I really like all that it provides. Pretty easy to maneuver around, but until you get used to it, it may take some patience. I'm just trying to find the barcode scanner to use my phones camera to scan the books, but even with what and where to find it, I have no clue. They tell me to look for the "catalog page", we'll, i gave not seen anything that says catalog. I've found "add books" or "import books" but thete is no barcode an either of those pages.

What’s new

Fix for error and crash when trying to add books on some devices.