I thought I'd lose interest in Librarything once I had everything entered--not that I do, yet--but I keep finding myself sorting things and rearranging things and checking to see who has what I do. It's like furniture arranging without the heavy lifting.
Gimme some milk.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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."
Connie Neil - Mar 22, 2007 5:24:02 am PDT #2330 of 28175
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Amy - Mar 22, 2007 5:26:33 am PDT #2331 of 28175
Because books.
It's like furniture arranging without the heavy lifting.
Exactly. I'm still under 80 books, but I keep wanting to add more tags, and make sure the covers are all correct, and add reviews or remarks. It's fun! It's endless!
sumi - Mar 22, 2007 5:52:24 am PDT #2332 of 28175
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, I've started adding some limited tags to my books. I've also been going and looking at the collections of people who share the least shared books with me.
Man, people have collections of most serious books. My collection is not at all serious. This is probably why I felt that he covers was the most important aspect of the process.
P.M. Marc - Mar 22, 2007 6:14:11 am PDT #2333 of 28175
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Last night, I refused to go to bed until I'd broken 300, but I didn't want to get *out* of bed to grab more books.
Oy.
So I just added the US Harry Potter editions I'd been holding off on adding to push me over the top. I suppose I'll add the British editions later.
meara - Mar 22, 2007 10:24:26 am PDT #2334 of 28175
Yeah, I just added tags to most of mine, but I need to add more, and subclassify, and then I kinda want to use it to figure out what books I'm MISSING (like, do I have books 3, 4, and 7 of a series?), and then to organize my books on the shelves, and and and...
Polgara - Mar 22, 2007 10:39:21 am PDT #2335 of 28175
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Ah, shelf organization! That might be next. Right now, my cds are alphabetized, my dvds are alphabetized, but my books are shelved thusly:
Oo, I loved this book! It shall go on the eye-level shelf!.....This was only ok, it'll go on the bottom shelf......Omigod this sucked! Is there room in that far corner bookcase that no one can actually see?....
At least I can always find what I'm looking for.
meara - Mar 22, 2007 10:45:48 am PDT #2336 of 28175
Heh. My scifi/fantasy (the bulk of my books) was at one point a few months back, alphabetized, but then taking things off to read, buying new things...now it's more just a mess. And the rest of the books are a complete mess--the romances and the mysteries and the dictionaries all piled up and jumbled and unfindable.
I'm buying a new bed (in a new size) so I have to move all the furniture around anyway...I figure that's an excuse to get all Virgo. But the question is, is it an excuse to buy another bookshelf??
Polgara - Mar 22, 2007 10:48:18 am PDT #2337 of 28175
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Yes. Unequivocally yes. :-D
-t - Mar 22, 2007 11:05:34 am PDT #2338 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, I just added tags to most of mine, but I need to add more, and subclassify, and then I kinda want to use it to figure out what books I'm MISSING (like, do I have books 3, 4, and 7 of a series?), and then to organize my books on the shelves, and and and...
This where I'll be as soon as I finish cataloging the last of my books and get some more tagging in. I am SO looking forward to it!
I think I have determined that the bookshelf I want to add to the office would not fit down the hallway. Curse you, inexorable geometry! So one of the first steps of organizing the shelves will be choosing which books to exile to the attic.
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2007 2:54:39 pm PDT #2339 of 28175
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's a bit of a giggle to see all the non-librarians so excited about cataloging.
I'm in project management now, but I spent 13 years in content management precisely because I love working out how to organise shit.
Organising shit, a tad less. I tag all my books to make sure my tagging system is complete and not redundant. Said tagging system will be tested with every addition.
God, I love that shit. Even works at krav. I managed to teach old stuff organised in a new way such that the students honestly thought I'd taught them new techniques. Nope! Same techniques. I just re-filed them for you.