A Scanner Not-So-Darkly

I decided to visit LibraryThing before logging off tonight. This is the site I have been dreaming of! The most exciting thing (to me, anyway) is that I can create a home library catalog. I looked into buying some home software to do this a few years ago, but the time involved was so daunting (I have thousands of books) that it became a "someday" project. Well, LibraryThing not only catalogs your books, it offers a cheap ($15) bar code scanner to make it faster. It plugs into a USB port and scans the universal bar code on the book jacket/cover. For $10 you can enter as many books as you want in a year; for $25 you're a lifetime member. Sign me up!