Book cataloguing software/apps

I mentioned in that last post using an app on my Android phone called ‘Book Catalogue’. This app is pretty good for what it does. You can scan a book’s barcode from your phone, or type in the ISBN, and it talks to Library Thing, Amazon and Google to draw in information about the book.

However, it doesn’t look like I can actually then get my book catalogue off my phone. So I haven’t gone ahead and entered all my books, because having them all on my phone, and my phone only, is not something I see a whole lot of value in. I think Book Catalogue could be good for when I am out and about and want to remember details of a book for later, or for recording my ‘wish list’ of books to read in a way that is more convenient and portable than the wishlist in Book Depository, or for making a note when I loan a book to someone.

But I did then go looking to see if there is any software or app that would let me scan books on my phone and then sync them to my computer. I haven’t found one yet. I was going to ask this question on facebook, and maybe I still will. I know that if you use Delicious on a Mac (which you have to purchase) you can scan books in with the computer’s webcam, and if you have an iPhone it appears it will then sync to that, but it looks like you have to buy a barcode reader to scan books remotely (perhaps it is only a matter of time before you can scan them on your iPhone). I like the sound of this software anyway, as it is no necessity that I can scan books on my phone, I’d just have to buy it, and I was having fun scanning things with my phone.

You can also use Library Thing on the web for free and type in ISBNs and have an online library.

If I am going to bother entering all my books somewhere (I haven't decided if this is a worthwhile endeavour yet), I would rather have a library on either my computer or the internet, and not just on my phone (and let’s face it, I will probably go from an Android to an iPhone one day, so if the app is incompatible I will have wasted hours of time putting books on my phone).

I am wondering whether anyone else uses any of these programs or can recommend another ...