Comments on: Making a movie master list

Question: Making a movie master list

zardoz — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:54:38 -0800

I want to make a list of every movie and book I've ever seen/read. There are a few categorizing apps like this, but nothing I've found is very efficient. Here's my idea and tell me if it's already been done: I can search by genre, actor, director, author, etc and be given a list (preferably with the movie/book cover as a clickable icon), which I can then simply click on to go to my master list. The list then has my choices darkened (and the unclicked ones still light), so I can easily see, say, which Scorsese movie I haven't gotten to yet. Does anything like this exist? If not, it'd be a good project for me to work on (tho probably waaay over my head).

By: mykescipark

mykescipark — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:58:17 -0800

It may not be comprehensive enough for what you need, and the interface leaves a little something to be desired, but I like reader2.com for tracking books.

By: four panels

four panels — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:19:03 -0800

This is may not immediately assist you, but Delicious Library is an amazing way to catalog your books, movies, and music collection.

Then again, a single page of sortable tables in (relatively) plain text is equally as elegant. Maybe some php and SQL could satisfy this request.

By: reenum

reenum — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:13:31 -0800

I've seen All Consuming. That site has most of the features you're looking for.

By: scission

scission — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:49:05 -0800

I made a half-hearted attempt to use LibraryThing for this purpose, at least as far as books, but got frustrated by the differentiation between different published editions. I know that it can matter what printing you're referring to in a citation, but I don't care whether I read a ragged old copy from 1952 or a 2005 reprint; I just want to know that I read the novel! Are there sites or programs that attempt to address this?

By: einekleine

einekleine — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 04:19:30 -0800

But when you enter a book on LibraryThing - very easy via ISBN or title search - it only uses the title and author to socially collate data/organise your library. If you want to get anal with publication details you can, but it does a good job on basics too.

By: JeremiahBritt

JeremiahBritt — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:48:30 -0800

If you are able to, join Netflix. Not only does it allow you to brows and rate movies from it's extensive library, it also makes recommendations (most good) based on this information. And, despite the "unlimited movies" fiasco, I love the service.

(As I checked my Netflix account just now and have watched 845+ movies/television series. I'm not sure whether I should be proud or not.)

By: rsanheim

rsanheim — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:45:46 -0800

Second Librarything - its a very nice service and the guy running it is a cool guy. I found the import from amazon very easy to use, where it just grabs the ISBN numbers and goes.

By: Cuppatea

Cuppatea — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:44:28 -0800

Movielens allows you to rate movies you've seen, search by actor, director etc. It's main aim is to predict what you'd like, based on your rated movies.