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...
What? She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
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 22, 2007 10:24:26 am PDT #2334 of 28175
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.
Consuela - Mar 22, 2007 7:13:09 pm PDT #2340 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm so staying away from Librarything. Y'all are terrifying me.
P.M. Marc - Mar 22, 2007 7:47:00 pm PDT #2341 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
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.
Lee - Mar 22, 2007 7:58:54 pm PDT #2342 of 28175
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Oh, poor Plei. I hope you can ahem soon.
Still in Consuela's corner re LibraryThing.
-t - Mar 22, 2007 8:11:45 pm PDT #2343 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have hooked my mom and maybe my dad on LibraryThing. This may involve me scanning their books for them, but ultimately will make it that much easier for me to browse their shelves, so I'm counting it as a win.
I tag all my books to make sure my tagging system is complete and not redundant.
I'm massively impressed by this. I can see that it's a good thing, but how to do it is so beyond me I wouldn't even know where to start. Neat.