Buffistas

Never goes smooth. How come it never goes smooth?

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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."

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-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.

Beverly - Mar 22, 2007 8:40:24 pm PDT #2344 of 28175

Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

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.

amych - Mar 23, 2007 3:00:26 am PDT #2345 of 28175

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Hi. I've been feeling pouty that the discussion never took off on the LT Buffistas group, and I TOTALLY FORGOT WE HAD A LITERARY THREAD HERE.

Jessica - Mar 23, 2007 4:24:51 am PDT #2346 of 28175

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

This weekend, I build bookshelves and finish unpacking los books! And then upgrade to a paid membership on LT.

Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2007 4:53:50 am PDT #2347 of 28175

brillig

I just chortled when I realized there was a WHOLE BAG of unsorted books in the dressing room.

I had the same response when I realized one of the shelves in the living room was actually doublestacked and there was a whole row behind the first that I hadn't gotten to yet.

It's a sickness.

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