'The Message'
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."
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.
Oh, poor Plei. I hope you can ahem soon.
Still in Consuela's corner re LibraryThing.
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.
I'm in the Consuela and Lee corner. Attacking my books with LT sounds like a freakin' nightmare, not a jolly exercise in geekdom. Scary. But y'all go on and have a good time with it.