I'll admit to being in the group that's not bothered by having an out-of-control home library. I can see the social networking fun of Library Thing (LT), although I'm not sure if I'd really want to know the people whose libraries are most like mine. Actually I own a few more books than that...
I am really fond of the use of Z39.50 to scoop data from Amazon and LC... it's elegant and cheap and many a public library could probably use this as their main catalog utility, especially ones that have collections without much local and/or unique material. (Well, it would fail badly on serials and continuations, too).
It's almost cheating, and who knows how long LT will survive, but, ya know, full MARC records. For free...
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