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...
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
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."
meara - Mar 17, 2007 6:56:29 am PDT #2219 of 28175
-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.
meara - Mar 17, 2007 7:59:30 am PDT #2221 of 28175
Heh. I'm just going shelf by shelf. And since I paid for teh lifetime membership, am trying to NOT go "hmm, I don't really remember this book, and I don't think I liked it, maybe I won't scan it..."
Up to 94 books so far, but that's....the ones that were lying about, about three off my bedside shelves (which are mostly journals and photos) and two shelves of one of my two 6' bookcases. Um. A ways to go, yes...
-t - Mar 17, 2007 8:24:35 am PDT #2222 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've done most of the books that were lying around and one 4-shelf bookshelf. Apparently that comes to 242. I've got at least one more stack on the floor and two more 4-shelf bookshelves, and at least 2 unpacked boxes, to go. I think I'm going to have to get another bookshelf and move the ones I have before I'm done.
Which is good, I've needed to do that for about a year, so if this makes me actually do it, yay.
Amy - Mar 17, 2007 8:28:23 am PDT #2223 of 28175
Because books.
I keep stopping to edit the titles I've entered -- rate them, add tags, etc.
meara - Mar 17, 2007 8:31:06 am PDT #2224 of 28175
I figure if nothing else, this is good for insurance purposes. Both so I can say "these are the ones I wanted to replace" and "No really, I DO have sixtbillion books! See!!"
One big 6' shelf done. One 6' shelf and two small shelves (overstuffed) to go.
I'm finding it very interesting to see how many people share the various books--now, granted, I started roughly from the end of the alphabet (yes, my books were at one point alphabetized, and still vaguely are)--but not surprised that Harry Potter #6 is my most shared book. Time Traveller's wife is next, and then Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (which was actually a present from a friend). Huh. And then you get Anne McCaffrey...and then Connie Willis! Higher than Diana Gabaldon! (Though that's just her last one, since as a hardback it was out of alphabetical order) Go Connie Willis! (Now write more books, Connie!)
Off to play more...
-t - Mar 17, 2007 8:31:07 am PDT #2225 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I haven't done any rating or reviewing, yet. I'm trying to tag as I go, though.
I've already found several books that I have not only never read I forgot I picked them up. And yet, I'm about to go to the library and get more books I haven't read. I'm going to have a to call a moratorium on bring unread books into the house at some point and get through the ones I have, but not today.
Connie Neil - Mar 17, 2007 10:23:22 am PDT #2226 of 28175
brillig
I need to get out to the garage to see what's out there. I think I've done everything inside the house--no wait, there's that book case in the backroom that's got all the boxes stacked in front of it.
DAmmit, LibraryThing is forcing me to organize my house just so I can get to the books!
That's supposed to be a good thing, right?
brenda m - Mar 17, 2007 10:32:09 am PDT #2227 of 28175
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Back from the book store. Surprisingly, this LibraryThing thing is not actually all that helpful when it comes to restraining my book-buying impulses.
meara - Mar 17, 2007 10:35:05 am PDT #2228 of 28175
Heh. Me neither--I found one book I had on my shelf, and just ordered five more in the series from Amazon.com (sadly, all used, from different sellers, so I'll probably get them last to first...but how much do I love that I can DO that now, rather than haunting used bookstores for ages, hoping to run into them...)