Thanks for noticing it (this is the guy who made it). I hope you don't mind some comments:

1. Actually, you can see and sort by other things, including publication, LC call number, ISBN (ie., publisher, since their code comes first) and entry date. The problem is: you didn't find that out, and that's my fault. Not a few others have missed it too, so a design rethink is clearly in order. At present different layouts (with different fields) are available next to "Display style:" and you can customize layouts under "Preferences."

2. Your comment makes me think I should add more fields. User-defined fields are already a big request, but I'm also going to add the Dewey. The LC subjects should also be clickable. I wanted to make sure someone would use it before I added secondary features. But now that it's usefulness iss established—it caught FIRE today—it's time to give it all I can give.

3. It's true that the site will only stay up until I (there is no "they") have a heart attack plus one month. But it will not go down because it doesn't make money. Money is not the object, and when my programming time is factored in, it will NEVER be in the black! Dot-coms will fail but sites made by and for passionate people tend to stay up. Check my profile for my other long-running passion-based sites. Nobody ever made a living compiling links about the Queen of Sheba and putting English-Greek dictionaries online.

Oh, and you can export as CSV to Excel if I show signs of weakening health.

Again, thank you for your comments. I hope, over time, I can make it do every thing you want it to. If you end up using it, let me know and I'll waive the $10.

Wow! You must be kibozing yourself like crazy to have found this so fast.

Regarding 1., thanks for the clarification, and it's my fault, too, that I didn't find the other sort fields -- I knew there might be others besides the ones set up to be visible on the sample library (yours?), but I wasn't quite ready to sign up yet to explore further. Also, it's worth pointing out that comparing Library Thing with screenshots and descriptions from the other, mostly software-based personal library cataloging systems out there, it looks like you take more of a library approach than most, which I definitely like (well, okay, I'm a library wonk). A lot of the others seem to be emulating a bookstore/publisher model, which is more inventory than cataloging, though at this level that's arguably a fine distinction.

You know, one thing that occurred to me yesterday that I didn't bother mentioning because I didn't realize I was talking to the creator: one nice thing that might be possible because of the shared database is a shared resource for the odd item that's not included in the LC catalog. As I register a book that's not in LC, I can add bibliographic info and tags (even a call number, if I feel ambitious). Then if anyone else registers the same book, they could use the record I'd already created, maybe correcting or adding to it -- kind of like OCLC, or the shared CD databases used by iTunes, Jukebox, etc. I'm not sure how that could be implemented, or whether it would be just too much trouble for something that doesn't come up very often. But it struck me as a nifty idea.

Congratulations on the immolation -- isn't it nice that everyone reads library blogs?

wow.

once I get my social security disability, you may be seeing my $10... I've got about 4,000 books in an Access database, but am not really up for maintaining it any more (CFS/fibro brainfog, anyone?) I'd like more than one 'comments' field - I track cover artist (over 50% of my books are SF/F), whether the book is signed, did someone give it to me, etc.; also co-authors, is it a collection or anthology...

but still, linking to LC catalog information? priceless.

:)

oh, I'm also tracking whether it's HC/TPB/PB, and the edition/printing information.

Oh ghods. I guess I *am* a collector of sorts, after all. *very very wry*

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