<![CDATA[My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt …]]>My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt …

I am looking for a self-hostable web based application to be an inventory of the (real, rather than e-) in the house. It should be able to accept a list of as input for importing items and look them up (with covers) to ingest their metadata.

It doesn't need style circulation (I don't want to run a library so don't want or equivalent)

I've been using which is ok but only understands "things" rather than "books" (I've written a isbn2homebox script to make that easier). I'd like something purpose designed for books though.

Does anyone use anything like this? There are plenty of free or subscription things available online, but I want to run this myself.

Thanks ☺️

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/c00c604c-9414-4366-be94-a2d2e32fff73/my-search-has-thus-far-been-fruitless-so-i-am-asking-here-as-a-last-ditch-attemptRSS for NodeWed, 08 Apr 2026 10:45:38 GMTSun, 29 Mar 2026 15:24:16 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt … on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:18:44 GMT]]>@jandi @mozzo @distinctdipole Thanks, this looks very promising, I'll give it a spin and let you know! 😃

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/fooflington/statuses/116317849178710180https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/fooflington/statuses/116317849178710180Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:18:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt … on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:51:33 GMT]]>@fooflington @quixoticgeek I’ve toyed around with TinyCat in the past (is free for personal use), and the LibraryThing backend is great. https://www.librarycat.org/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/unsoluble/statuses/116314439253650007https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/unsoluble/statuses/116314439253650007Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:51:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt … on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:18:08 GMT]]>@distinctdipole @mozzo @fooflington That's even better 🤗

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jandi/statuses/116313600076355503https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jandi/statuses/116313600076355503Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:18:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt … on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:54:46 GMT]]>@mozzo @fooflington Oh, that's so nice to hear, I love this moments!

Thanks to @distinctdipole for boosting! See what you did!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jandi/statuses/116313508205310033https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jandi/statuses/116313508205310033Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:54:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt … on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:41:42 GMT]]>@jandi Thank you for sharing my project! @fooflington if you do try it out, I hope it fits your needs. I'm always looking to improve the app, so feel free to ping me if you have any questions, find any bugs, or have ideas for new features.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/mozzo/statuses/116313456825258863https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/mozzo/statuses/116313456825258863Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:41:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt … on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:23:47 GMT]]>Uncertain if it fulfills all you criteria, but
https://www.shelf-cat.com/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/gwenynen/statuses/116313386364555550https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/gwenynen/statuses/116313386364555550Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:23:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt … on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:16:29 GMT]]>@fooflington Haven't used it, but BookLogr fits the description: https://booklogr.app/

It searches in OpenLibrary, I added a couple ISBNs in the demo and worked fine. It has an API so I guess you could add a list of them programatically more or less easily. Seems actively maintained.

It even has a share with Mastodon feature! (the author is here @mozzo and has favorited this very post!).

Hope it helps.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jandi/statuses/116313357616683640https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jandi/statuses/116313357616683640Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:16:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt … on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:09:50 GMT]]>@fooflington
It's designed to be social, so this might not match super well what you're wanting it for, but: bookwyrm?

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Bookwyrm Documentation

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(docs.joinbookwyrm.com)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/da5nsy/statuses/116313331470577308https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/da5nsy/statuses/116313331470577308Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:09:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt … on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:47:54 GMT]]>@fooflington I use Alexandria
https://github.com/mvz/alexandria-book-collection-manager/

for me, the ISBN import has good days and bad days, so YMMV.
Recommend to give it a testrun before investing time and money into a solution for barcode scanning in bulk and then feeding the ISBNs to Alexandria (that's how I entered my books initially)

Since I tend to add less than a dozen books a year, when the ISBN lookup is not working that day I tend to shrug and just fill the hand full of fields manually

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/pcfe/statuses/116313245227412748https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/pcfe/statuses/116313245227412748Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:47:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt … on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:40:58 GMT]]>@fooflington I used DataCrow for this purpose a decade ago. Looks like it's still around and has a ton of new features: https://datacrow.org/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/mekki/statuses/116313217970893691https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/mekki/statuses/116313217970893691Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:40:58 GMT