Librarything

Is it just me or do all librarians harbour a secret desire to catalogue their own books? And now I have the perfect tool to do it. The only thing I have to work out is whether to get extra long cords and take the PC, screen, mouse and keyboard to my bookshelves or will it be easier to carry the books to my PC or should I use a pen and paper (very last century I know) and sit by my bookshelves making a list that I can then use to enter my holdings on Librarything? I have added 5 titles to my Librarything account after sitting at my desk at work racking my brains to think of 5 books I actually own as opposed to those I have read and enjoyed. The site then went offline (is that the term) for some sort of maintenance, so I didn't get any further with it.

There are lots of books that I love, but don't own, so I tend to feel that my list won't truly reflect my reading habits. I suppose there is no reason I can't just add books/authors that I like as opposed to those that I actually own.

I do like Librarything and can see that it would be useful to have a list of the books I own (for insurance purposes if nothing else).

I am just wondering why every application we have looked at so far is so keen for me to share my life with others. I don't think I have such an extraordinary life that anyone else would be interested in knowing about it.