Spike ,'Selfless'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
It occurs to me that now would be the perfect time to start a LibraryThing (if I haven't already...I tend to sign up for these sorts of things and then forget about them until months or years later), because all of my books are still in boxes from the move. If I catalogued them as I unpacked, I'd have a complete list!
(Huh, Firefox doesn't think there's a 'u' in catalogue. But there is, right?)
When you're organizing your books is absolutely the perfect time to catalog(ue) them! (And, traditionally, yes, there is a "ue" in catalog, but thanks to the fad in the early 20th century of New American Spelling that stripped out "extraneous" letters, spearheaded by men like Colonel McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, which spent the first half of the century in thrall to rather peculiar spellings ["tho", etc.], the no "ue" spelling has stuck in the US.) Weeding was a great side-benefit to pulling them all of the shelf to enter them into the computer.
Now that I've had my lunch, it's back to tagging!!
I started a group over there under Buffistas since I think a lot of us may be wanting to cruise each others libraries.
I am so afraid to even peek in there. I know it will be the best timesuck EVER, and I don't have time! I don't!
But ... books! A place catalogue my books! It's like the website I never knew I always wanted!
Thanks for starting the group, Brenda! I've only catalogued a fraction of my books, but I went ahead and joined. My library is listed under "missweber"
I've got everybody on watch and joined the group--thanks, Brenda!!
Now that I've got all my non-romances entered and tagged, time to wade in with the romances and create all the subcategories for tagging them.
Wish me luck; I might not come out alive, or, at least, not until some time tomorrow morning...
Well, I'm up to "L", and halfway through my bookshelf of romances. Book count is currently at 553--I'll most likely be adding about 100-120 more before I'm done.
I'll be sending the link to the completed list to my family members, but I'm not looking forward to listening to their snarking on the totals and content of said list. I'll just tell my sibs to see what they come up with if they cataloged their music collections.
Thank you all for sharing Library Thing. I've just started, and I've listed a chunk, but I've got a good long way to go. I can't wait to look at everyone else's collections.
I've got a ton more, but I haven't been doing them in any real sort of order.
OK, this is ridiculous--I've got about 8 shelf-feet of just Nora Roberts paperbacks. How did that happen?!?