Jayne ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
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.
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.
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...
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.
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??
Yes. Unequivocally yes. :-D
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.
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.
I'm so staying away from Librarything. Y'all are terrifying me.
Due to a small cock up involving CERTAIN PEOPLE not setting the VCR before we dashed off to dinner with Pete and Jilli, I'm on ahem delay for SPN. Library Thing is the only thing keeping me sane. I just chortled when I realized there was a WHOLE BAG of unsorted books in the dressing room.