My too-read list just keeps GROWING

[smeddley]

My book collection. All 1612 of them...

(Sorry, they're in alphabetical order by title, and not grouped by genre. It was my first attempt at an extraction from Bookpedia, and it took FOREVER. And I don't feel like messing with it right now to make it better! But it will be, eventually...)

Notice the duplicates? Yeah, you know you have too many books when you buy ones you already have. On the up side, when I get them all out of the boxes (when the basement is finished) I'll be offering up the dups to friends!

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[gelsey.livejournal.com]

Duplicates! *squees*

Ah, yes. Wonderful book collection!

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Oooh-hooo-hooo, you think you're eligible for any? ;) I thought about doing another contest - like the movie one - but having the prizes upfront for people to win. I still have to make and send out the prizes from the last competition. I haven't forgotten, it's just that this damn house has kept me so busy!

[gelsey.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I'm studying, so anything that offers procrastination is worth a squee. Plus, duplicates are nice :) I have some myself.

... somewhere.

Well, if it's a movie quiz, I'll suck out, but I'll participate if there's a possibility of prizes. Grin.

Yeah. I was thinking of you while I was working today, and the other day. See, they're getting their house all done up so they can sell it ... making the basement pretty ... etc. So besides housecleaning, I'm helping with small stuff ... like paint scrapping, painting, clean-up ...

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

I don't think it'll be a straight movie quiz, no. I thought something more along the lines of several different rounds, each with a different emphasis. Sure, maybe some movie, but also some trivia and whatnot. Maybe even some creative bits! But I'll have to come up with good prizes to get people to compete!

Suddenly, I'm jealous of your job. I love painting, and I'd really love to get paid for it!

[cdpeck.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of Bookpedia. Did you buy it? Can it only run on a Mac? I ask because my wife is planning on starting a bookstore and it looks like it might be useful.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we got it on-line from Bruji (http://www.bruji.com/). It does only run on a Mac, unfortunately, all the programs I found for Windows sucked. Luckily, we have both Macs and PCs...

...and now, a bar code scanner, as well!

[revoked-soul.livejournal.com]

Ha! I'm far too lazy to ever make a booklist.

I noticed the duplicates...I've done that a time or two myself. And a few times, I haven't been able to find a book I wanted amidst the masses, so bought a new copy, later to find the original...that pisses me off.

I also noticed that you have a remarkable number of books with titles that start with the word 'Death'.

Also, a lot of books about Darwin and/or evolution.

Congrats to you on the list...it must have taken a while!

[aeamek.livejournal.com]

I have a copy of Stephen King's Christine on my desk at work as a reminder that I should CHECK before I buy anymore books.

[cdpeck.livejournal.com]

Where'd you get the barcode scanner? Are you selling books too or is this just for your personal collection?

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

We got the scanner at Microcenter, I think it was about $90. Adecco brand, works great.

Just for our personal collection. We got the 'pedia three-pack, and we did our CDs and DVDs, too!

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

It took quite awhile - and we wouldn't have been able to do it without a scanner!

I've done it A LOT. When I have things REALLY organized (it happens occasionally) my books, CDs, and DVDs are in alphabetical order.

It's because I've recently delved into mystery novels. It doesn't mean a thing, really... <.< you know? >.> Really. <.< No need to report me to LJ or anything... ^.~

The evolution books would be the hubby's. It's his area of study. :)

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

I really need an iPod now so I could download my list and carry it around with me. Then I could check before I buy something... Though at least a lot of those are garage sale buys, so they didn't cost that much...

[revoked-soul.livejournal.com]

My mother-in-law, who has more books than anyone else I know, is currently doing it The Long Way...I'm watching in awe and occasionally stomping down the idea that listing my books would be in any way a good way to spend my time (because I know I'd quit or get confused a fraction of the way through).

Now YOUR way sounds a heck of a lot less scary.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

I wasn't that bad, honestly. We catalogued the books, movies, and CDs over the course of two or three weekends, working a few hours at a time. It went pretty fast, other than having to change the genre on about every book (I think the program 'guessed' on the genre a lot, and some of the things it picked were hysterical!).

[dynastic-queen.livejournal.com]

IMPRESSIVE. (The list, and the effort it took to compile it.)

[nakedblueninja.livejournal.com]

I have such a different style of book... uh.... husbandry? Than you do. I have some really awesome books I read over and over and over, so I have them in shiny new paperback edition (like the Dune series, and some Heinlein books, and a couple of trade paperback comic books). I have some reference books and textbook-style books (like my bartender's guide, with 650 cocktail recipes and a history of each different kind of booze, or my occult studies books, which are all interesting to read things in and one of which is 170-odd years old (yeah, I keep that one in a special box!) or my big textbook which I'm compiling myself of basic survival skills, building instructions for things like water purifiers and rudimentary permanent housing, and other useful things in the event of total worldwide apocalypse), and then I have my 'batch' books. Those are books I read once, and then I'm done with them. I call them batch books because I buy them from the second-hand bookstore, pay next to nothing for them, and then when I have like 10, I take them back to the used bookstore and get some credit for another batch. I never keep the interesting storybooks. There's way too many of them. Plus, this way if I forget I read a book, I spend 2 dollars on it and then realise halfway through that there's a REASON this one seems so familiar. Then I get a dollar back when I take it back to the store.

I don't think I could deal with the sheer volume of books you have. I would get overwhelmed.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

The effort wasn't that bad, the computer program and the scanner did most of the work (there were a handful we had to manually enter). But it did take me back to my cashier days, using the scanner. *Beep* *Beep* *Beep*

I keep meaning to ask, did you ever get those books? I was a little worried sending them 'media mail', 'cause I think I might have been able to walk them there faster...

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of people that don't hold of to popular fiction. I think it's more normal. And a great number of out paperbacks I got as library books sales, used book stores, and garage sales, so I didn't pay full price (though I've also given away boxes of books to the library). I'm just... a hoarder. Our house is chock full of crap. So, really, the amazing number of books don't really stand out. Not when you also have stacks of DVDs, piles of CDs, mounds of fabric, bunches of computer games, board games, and puzzles, stacks of photos... you name it, I probably have a cache of it somewhere.

It's a fair-sized house, and it's full.

[dynastic-queen.livejournal.com]

Yeppers, I got them. And only a few days after you sent them, too. Didn't take long at all. I squealed. And I thank you. *kneeling on grateful knee*

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. I just like to make sure things get where I send them. I've had luck with the post office (knock on wood) but you just never know... :)