no way in HELL am I entering it all by hand. Too many books.

I put most of mine in by copying what other people have then checking the author's lists. I'm not worrying too much whether I'm showing the right edition or not (bad former library science student, bad!)

I just did a quick count. At least 425 on the shelves. There are a few strays. And that's not counting the romance novels that rotate out and I have a huge box I need to divest. Those I generally don't keep long.

I'm methodical. And a completist. And have no patience. And on dialup. This means...issues.

I have at least one book with no isbn. 1964 book of photographs from Prague. Soviet era.

I'm methodical. And a completist. And have no patience. And on dialup

t bows before the diligence and determination that is sarameg

I am my own worst enemy. God forbid I ever have to reload my cds into iTunes...

I think I've added five or six books entirely manually. It's odd what's not in Amazon, but I thought everything would have a Library of Congress number. Two things by an aunt, and someother small press stuff. Except for some graphic novels (which will take me over 200) and one Jamaican dictionary, I think I'm done.

At least this way, I'll be forced to dust my books with something other than the vacuum attachment.

Got my CueCat. Started entering with the living room. Will check back on a few days.

Oh, I'm under sieff-skaredoff and joined the buffista group.

Why doesn't the LibraryThing Buffista group page update? It's been at 5402 books for a couple days, I swear.

I don't know but it's driving me batshit.

If you go to the "add books" page, you just have to put in the title or other key words and it'll search for you. Easy.

My company is having a charity used book sale in April, in which everyone brings in books from home to donate, and then a few weeks later, they take all of them and sell them back to us and give the money raised to charity--they did the same with movies and music last year, and raised $750!

Well, I'm thinking about offering my bookstore/library skills to organize the donations sometime in that two week period so they're boxed by subject or by helping to display them before the sale. Of course, I'm not being totally altruistic here--I'm hoping to get first dibs on the books!! I'll have some additions to my LibraryThing catalog then.

I'm not worrying too much whether I'm showing the right edition or not

I'm hoping I won't worry too much about if I'm showing the right editions or not. Considering I have multiple (but different!) versions of certain books by Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, and Tanith Lee, I think worrying about that sort of thing is a quick ticket to Crazy(ier) Land.