In general I’m quite relaxed about most things. Maybe even a bit too relaxed. But when it comes to books I’m some sort of a freakish perfectionist. Both at work and at home.
When I was a kid I started a classifying system for my small but precious library with codes on stickers – some of our books still bear the scars!
So the moment I had a computer I tried to make a catalogue with all my books. I did that with pre-Office software on my first Olivetti and later I did a more serious attempt in Excel.
But although I put a lot of time in it – and even
Later I found a library software but that was even worse than my homemade Excel template.
I almost gave up. Almost.
Till…
This is the site that I have been waiting for!
I started to put all our books in our catalogue and I am well over 1000 entries now. But I slowed down now because after some wild and untamed typing and searching in their database my book perfectionism brought me down to earth… the data is too sloppy. LibraryThing offers so many fields: the ordinary title, author, etc. ones but also labeling, rating, date of purchase, reading, etc.
Well, anyhow a paradise for booklovers since you can compare your library with others, find new books and make new friends.
Of course there some minor flaws but in fact there’s only one downside: it is so addictive.
I need an early retirement. Today. Tomorrow at the latest ; )
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10 comments:
Cupcake, thanks for writing something on OUR blog baby, i appreciate the input *kusjes* ; ) And i for one am glad u found something u love doing on the net, Library thing is like work away from work for u! heheheh
I am a disorganise person ...hahahah...all my books flying here and there except my cake books! lol!
When you have finished sorting out your books, maybe you can sort out mine, like bigboysoven's they are everywhere. Found a few under my bed yesterday! and under the sofa and the kitchen cabinet, behind the TV...
Mush, suami awak ni seorang yang sangatlah rajin nya. Beruntung awak dapat seorang yang sebegitu ber iya iya dalam mengerjakan sesuatu pekerjaan. Ha ha ha, that's a mouthful, lama tak tulis dalam melayu, letih tgn che'.
WIZ, kelakar sungguh awak ni, che ketawa ber rolling2 on the floor hahahahah tulah asyik dok berbual omputih ja, sekali2 nak cakap formal malay punya lah susah, but that was really good Wiz, i dont think i can conjure up such sentences hehehhehe *HUGS*
Sounds good Wiz: independent professional library adviser and arranger! i travel the world to do everyones library...
When it comes to my books I am so OCD! .. tht's why I'm on LibraryThing! ..hehehe .. just need the time to catalogue my books :) Anyways Happy Cataloging ;)
I never knew there was someone in this world so into books tagging and cataloguing. I once thought that people who were interested in the physical aspects of books (other than the books' contents) was limited to the Library Science students. Interested in cataloguing all my Auditing books?!!
k next time u balik sg u can sort mine out....my room macam tongkang pecah...
I have picasa and tried ding it b4 but collage always comes out in big patch not in order like yours...email me the details eh
I love arranging and cataloguing my books too! I can totally relate to this! :-)
i m not surprised to c half of u are arrangers and the rest.. well isn't so in to sorting out their library ;-)
to the first group: c u guys on librarything?
to the other ones: when i am in the neighbourhood i do your library rightaway. especially cooking & baking books (quid pro quo!). auditing books... hmm.. not really my speciality but... will work 4 food
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