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."
I've loaded all my primaries! 434, with some duplicated (oddly, at least one of those pocket pithy books. Why do I have one called
Why I live in Alabama
?)
The Nevil Shutes circa the 50's and 60's were a bitch. I certainly don't have the same editions in librarything that I do at home. Also, the Grooks I have aren't the same, and may not even be the same book, as mine is a MIT press edition.
Now to decide if I'll load any of my trashy (and not) romances. I don't often keep them, I just haven't made a deacquisition run in a while.
OK, so the thing is, putting all this in Library Thing made me want to get RID of some of my books, too. Lots of my trashy romances. A few trashy scifi. But I don't want to just give them to goodwill, and the used bookstore sure won't pay me much for them.
So what do I do with them? Try to swap them one by one? That would be more satisfying, as it would involve someone who specifically wanted THAT BOOK, but...pain in the ass.
Anyone wanna trade a boxload of trashy romances? Or about..um...a dozen random bad scifi?
Hee. I'm apparently one of those people who has to have the right edition.
Which is a problem for some of my books.
I'm apparently one of those people who has to have the right edition.
Yeah, me too. Or at least the right cover! But for some I have, it is a lost cause. No LC #, no ISBN, nada. And I'm not quite insane enough to create new entries for ALL of them.
Sad now. Just finished searching every nook and cranny in my apartment, and I cannot find anymore books, but more importantly, I can't find my copy of The Ghosts Who Went to School. I know exactly where it was before I moved furniture last fall, but no clue where it went after that. I fear it might've been an accidental victim of The Purge.
The CueCat arrived! The CueCat arrived!
I suspect I'm going to be spending evenings (when not prepping for or attending the big upcoming gothy-goth event) scanning books, and then sneaking updating tags when I have time.
I think I am down to my last two boxes to enter. And I have tags on over half, maybe two-thirds!
Between the books I know I haven't read yet and the ones I can't remember anything about, I really should not buy new books for a long time.
Contrarily, I keep getting the urge to catalog books that I've read but don't own and just tag them as Not Mine in some way. I strongly suspect that that way lies madness, but it is so tempting.
Contrarily, I keep getting the urge to catalog books that I've read but don't own and just tag them as Not Mine in some way. I strongly suspect that that way lies madness, but it is so tempting.
Hah! That's me and the ones I've passed on to my parents. There is at least one I'd kill to get my hands on again. It made a big impact on me, and is fairly obscure and I had to give it to a dear friend in a fit of love. Sheesh.
I do think I have a problem.
Ok, I lied, there was a nook I hadn't checked, and whoa, a whole new box! Sadly, still not the book I'm looking for, more like books I thought I'd gotten rid of years ago. But, plus side, more titles to enter!
We crack me up. A buncha book covetting peoples.
