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.

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...

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.

I keep stopping to edit the titles I've entered -- rate them, add tags, etc.

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...

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.

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?

Back from the book store. Surprisingly, this LibraryThing thing is not actually all that helpful when it comes to restraining my book-buying impulses.

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...)

Yeah, I think noticing that you can grab the Amazon link for individual books when browsing people's libraries might just have been a mistake.

But it is amazing, isn't it? I remember the days of stumbling across a book and loving it and finding it was part of a series and despairing of ever finding the rest. Or finding a new author and crossing your fingers that the library might have one or two of their back catalog.

I love me some modern world, I tell you what.