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22 September 2006

GuruLib, an organizing tool for home libraries

Found in the inbox:

Hello Mr. Edward Vielmetti,

My wife and I developed a free mashup webservice called GuruLib (www.gurulib.com) to help organize home libraries. Using a book shelf metaphor, GuruLib catalogs books, movies, music, games and software online. You can keep your virtual book shelfs private and hence visible only to the owner or make it public and share the catalog with your friends. In addition, GuruLib helps keep track of borrowed items. All essential cataloging information like author, synopsis, genre, front cover etc. are automatically fetched from either Amazon database or from 530 public and university libraries around the world. Our home libary is cataloged under www.gurulib.com/coolabcgirl

I would like you to take a look at the webservice and if found interesting please review that in your blog.

Thanks and Regards
Christina & Rana Basheer
8002 Halsey Street,
Lenexa, KS 66215

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Posted on 22 September 2006 in Beyond big vendors, Collection development, Library mashups |

Comments

I'd say Library Thing is already doing this better... and with lots of lovely Web 2.0 features.
http://www.librarything.com/

Posted by:Iain Wallace | 27 September 2006 at 11:42 AM

The functionality seems nifty... but the signup interface is PayPal, the frontpage Google, and the shelves Delicious Monster. I'm confused!

Posted by:Matt | 28 September 2006 at 09:24 AM

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