I can see that I'm going to lose most of my weekend to LibraryThing.
Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.
'First Date'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
shrift - Mar 16, 2007 7:30:00 am PDT #2211 of 28175
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Kathy A - Mar 16, 2007 7:44:46 am PDT #2212 of 28175
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That's what happened to me last weekend!
shrift - Mar 16, 2007 8:09:10 am PDT #2213 of 28175
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I'm already losing most of my workday mentally going through the shelves at my apartment, and trying to find the right editions without, you know, having access to any of the books I own except the one in my purse.
sj - Mar 16, 2007 8:11:23 am PDT #2214 of 28175
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I just ordered a CueCat, but I'm going to wait until I need to pack up my books to scan them.
§ ita § - Mar 16, 2007 11:37:06 am PDT #2215 of 28175
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are the CueCats still capturing and sending data back home?
Gris - Mar 16, 2007 12:29:41 pm PDT #2216 of 28175
Hey. New board.
I need to join Mrs. Industries book club.
Once, I had most of my books entered in a Delicious library (mac program that can use an iSight or other camera to scan) but I lost that hard drive. It also did DVDs and CDs, which was cool (though I'm missing most of my cases now so had to enter them by hand). Maybe I'll do this thing someday, but probably not. I'm essentially lazy, and would rather spend my Saturday reading some of those books.
-t - Mar 17, 2007 4:38:31 am PDT #2217 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
You people who can enter books from memory amaze me. One of the reasons I'm so excited about LibraryThing is that I have very little idea which books I own, and which I used to own, or read and sold, or got out of a library, or just read a review of somewhere but haven't actually seen.
I have fallen in love with my CueCat and want to scan absolutely everything.
The other big part opf my excitement, of course, is that this gives me motivation to get my boxes of books unpacked and my office organized.
Amy - Mar 17, 2007 4:55:21 am PDT #2218 of 28175
Because books.
I've been LibraryThinging all morning. I'm doing it mostly from memory, inspired by seeing books on other lists or simply starting with an author and going from there.
I desperately want a Cuecat, though. I only have about a sixth (seventh? eighth?) of my books here, and the rest are packed away. Entering them could get tedious.
I'm aiming for the correct cover, too, and not so much the exact edition, which is wrong like a wrong thing, but at least when I look at my library all the books *appear* correctly.
I've decided to ask for the lifetime membership for my birthday. Wheee!
meara - Mar 17, 2007 6:56:29 am PDT #2219 of 28175
I just got my CueCat yesterday, so I think I'ma start scanning stuff in momentarily...soon as I get up off the couch...any minute now...um...
-t - Mar 17, 2007 7:35:56 am PDT #2220 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It looks like about 2 hours of cataloging a day is my limit. Not so much for the cataloging, as for the figuring out how I can arrange my books so I know what's been entered and what hasn't.