Übermetacool

What if my lifetime membership to LibraryThing isn't. Not that I am thinking of my own end. But can a web site, or anything else for that matter, really promise a "lifetime?" Is there a will that bequeaths mastership of the web site should whoever it is that is in charge should, well, pass, retire, or even just quit. I mean, doesn't everything end at some point? Do you Dear Reader really believe that the lifetime guarantee on the Shamwow really lasts that long? I have put a lot of time and effort into cataloging my books on LibraryThing. Probably too much. (And there is more to do.) I needed a backup plan. It wasn't too hard to conceive. Or to carry out. In the tools section of LibraryThing I saw an option to export records. Ooooh! Yummy. I exported and saved my whole catalog as an Excel spreadsheet. But that would not be enough. Nosirreebobcattail. I opened FileMaker. You can already see where this is going, can't you Dearest of Dear Readers? I created a template for my books. Library of Congress Call Number. Title. Author (last name, first name). Publication Info. Date. Tags. Notes. Enough. For now at least. Then I imported the metadata from the spreadsheet that I had generated from the web site, into FileMaker. My mouth is watering a bit. This may have been the geekiest thing I have ever done on my own. OK. OK. It was the geekiest thing I have ever done. Hands down. No "may have been" about it.