Organize Your Books With LibraryThing

I know I've complained about my local library previously but I'm a big book person if you haven't guessed.  Heck, my very first blog post way back when was about cats in libraries.  When Angie left, all of my books disappeared as well.  I had a lot of books back then (I worked for Waldenbooks for a few years until I realized that I was going to make less than $20k a year as a store manager.) and I have to admit that I missed them. 

Anyway, through the magic of the Internet, I've been slowly rebuilding my collection.  I read mostly science fiction although I have been know to read other things a time or two.  Most of what I've obtained I have saved on my laptop's hard drive and I read it from my iPod Touch with Stanza.

The biggest problem besides trying to convert those files to something Stanza can read is trying to keep things organized.  I find myself using Windows search function just to find out if I have a certain book or if I have to go looking for it.  Some folks have suggested different organizers to keep things sorted but all the ones I've tried either didn't work the way I liked, converted the books into weird formats or made multiple copies killing the space on my drive, or just didn't work at all.  Right now, I've got a directory labeled Books on the hard drive, the 26 letters of the alphabet underneath that, and a separate folder under each of those for each author by their last name.  Not the best of solutions but they're sorted.  The problem though is there's no easy way to tell what I have, what authors I have, and what I'm missing. (Some of the files are corrupt as well which makes me check each and every one but that's besides the idea of this post.)

Having a few extra bucks at the end of this month, I've gone ahead and paid for a year's subscription over at LibraryThing. (I feel bad that I only had left six bucks left in my Paypal account instead of the ten that they ask for but they took it.  Hopefully I can add more to that later on someday.)  LibraryThing is an online category system that allows people to organize and catalog their book collections.  I've only got a single book cataloged so far (They have a limit of 200 books for free accounts.) but now I'm going to try to get more of what I have in there. (edit: Oops, got two in there now.  Been reading The Black Unicorn lately so I went ahead and added it.)

Anyone care to show off their own collections and give me another reason why I need to get organized?

edit: The image is from the LibraryThing website.  I don't see the legal information there though so I can't give credit besides that. :(