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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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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."

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Kathy A - Mar 15, 2007 5:28:35 pm PDT #2197 of 28175
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

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.

Atropa - Mar 15, 2007 5:52:31 pm PDT #2198 of 28175
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

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.

§ ita § - Mar 15, 2007 8:06:17 pm PDT #2199 of 28175
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

you just have to put in the title or other key words and it'll search for you

I'm a correct edition worrier, so I've been typing in ISBNs the whole way through. And even then, some of the details/covers were off. May correct later.

flea - Mar 16, 2007 12:20:37 am PDT #2200 of 28175
information libertarian

ita is me. Typing in an ISBN and it finding the right book is still so satisfying! I've only stumped it once (out of, say, 30 books so far), but since the book is in Greek that's forgivable.

Connie Neil - Mar 16, 2007 4:55:25 am PDT #2201 of 28175
brillig

You realize, of course, that all of this is just a gateway into people psycho-analyzing us--because of course *I* would never dream of studying everyone's catalogues and pondering what it reveals about them, along with their cataloging practices.

(And I keep having arguments with myself about avoiding the really trashy books and misrepresenting myself. Then I found out how many other people have "Fanny Hill" et al.)

Fred Pete - Mar 16, 2007 4:57:10 am PDT #2202 of 28175
Ann, that's a ferret.

Then I found out how many other people have "Fanny Hill"

I not only have a copy, I read it for genuine academic purposes. (History class -- paper on the court battles over pornography during the '60s.)

flea - Mar 16, 2007 4:57:42 am PDT #2203 of 28175
information libertarian

I have tagged books belonging to my husband that I wouldn't own if I hadn't married him "Husband's". I have NOT specially tagged books belonging to my husband that I might have acquired if I had not married him, or at least which don't embarrass me to own.

Just in case you were wondering.

Connie Neil - Mar 16, 2007 5:00:29 am PDT #2204 of 28175
brillig

All my husband has--that I know of :)--are various military-themed SF/Fantasy books. The smut is mine. And I can't claim I have Fanny in the house for her historical relevance.

Hayden - Mar 16, 2007 5:42:03 am PDT #2205 of 28175
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I may adopt Flea's practice of labelling Mrs. Industries' books as such.

flea - Mar 16, 2007 5:47:16 am PDT #2206 of 28175
information libertarian

Does Mrs. Industries own a copy of "How to Analyze Handwriting?" That's the only one I'm actually embarrassed about (so far). Otherwise, I just don't want people thinking I know anything about Differential Equations.

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