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If you are running Mac OS X, you can use Booxter which is the best book cataloging program out there. It tracks all sorts of attributes and connects to a lot of different web sites to get the book data (Amazon, but also Library of Congress, etc.). In addition to books, it will also catalog music, movies and comic books.

You can create smart lists (like in iTunes) to categorize things, and you can scan barcodes with a handheld scanner or use an iSight. It also has integrated label printing to help you in organizing a home library, and can easily handle many thousands of items.

Delicious looks yummy. However does this do library numbering systems like Dewey or Library of Congress?

No, but Booxter does - it will gather both Dewey and Library of Congress numbers.

I like to use Books for OSX found at http://books.aetherial.net/. It's open-source and tends to work out pretty nicely. It isn't as feature complete as Delicious Library or Booxter, but it tends to do the job for me.

If you don't mind paying a bit, and it's only books that you want to read, Booxter is a good choice. A lot less than the Delicious Library.

If you are running Mac OS X, Booxter is the best book cataloging program out there. It tracks all sorts of attributes and connects to a lot of different web sites to get the book data (Amazon, but also Library of Congress, etc.).

You can create smart lists (like in iTunes) to categorize your books. And you can scan barcodes with a handheld scanner or use an iSight - pretty cool. You can export to XML also.

I think Booxter is what you mean - it has been around a while.

I hope they're related somehow.. otherwise one of these is a total ripoff.

This looks exactly the same without the fancy wood panelling.

Mac people have had that ability for a while. Booxter was actually the first application to support iSight barcode scanning. It's fantastic.

Booxter is, hands down, the best application for cataloging books on the Mac.