cataloging pattern books

What is the best way to handle - catalog- all the pattern books/ booklets/magazines? They do not have ISBN's and what a pain it would be to manually enter them into my "library. But I would really like to have them as part of my data base.

I did mine by hand, but then I don't have that many of them.

I joined a group I normally watch just to reply to this. Entering them manually is your best bet; it's work, but you can choose how far you go in the entry. Most won't have authors, so you give it a title, and a date in the title if it is a magazine - Knitters - spring 1992, for example. You could set a basic publisher for magazines. Booklets might need a bit more - the publisher is probably a yarn maker, and the date is nice.

You can also do a lot of work with the tags, listing the pattern for the booklet, and patterns you like for the magazine. I'm not planning on listing any of my knitting and craft magazines on Librarything, but I might change my mind after I get the books listed and tagged. I have not listed any of my knitting books, but I can see the value in doing it, and in devising more detailed tags.

I did a lot of mine by hand and plan on doing the rest by hand as well. It was time consuming. I noticed that if I did a search on LibraryThing a lot of other people had entered them before I had making the whole process a bit easier.

There was talk at one point of allowing cataloging by ISSN, which most magazines and (I would think) a lot of pattern books should have. I don't know where that's at, though.

A Season's Tale had an ISBN, and I had absolutely no truouble adding it. Don't remember if Debbie Bliss's Pure Silk had an ISBN (I don't have it at the office with me), but I think I had to enter it manually.

Note that this is the correct link to the Debbie Bliss book. The touchstone comes up with a book by Susan Johnson but doesn't offer an "others" to click on.