Project

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Project for the day: update the SF Books list so that we don't buy (any more) duplicates at Worldcon.

Second project: cut out Viking dress.

Comments

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should give the doubles to your friends.

Liam

[elizabear.livejournal.com]

It astonishes me that dsrtao can not only keep his library listing in his head, he can remember the library books he's read, too. I swear he's set up storage in those parts of the brain that we're supposedly not using.

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

"Project for the day" The Day?? THE DAY??? You have so few SF books that you can update the entire list in one day? Oh you poor thing, I had no idea things were that bad! :)
-- Dagonell
P.S. In answer to the obvious question, the non-media paperback SF takes up one bookcase made specifically for it that runs floor to ceiling down the length of the upstairs hall. The hardcover SF (which admittedly we don't buy much of), fills a regular bookcase in the spare bedroom. I have 9 boxes labelled "Star Trek" in the attic, with another 3 labelled "TV & Movie SF".

[tpau]

you could always lend out duplicates hint hint hint...

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

I've finally found what seems to be decent cataloguing software, and with a barcode scanner, entering individual books should go quickly. The problem is that there's still so many that it's a daunting task. I also don't have nearly as much shelf space to display even a significant fraction of them, so it'll mostly be cataloguing boxes. That should, at least, make it possible to find a book more easily, and cut down on the the duplicates.

Another part of me says that in an effort to reduce clutter, I should get rid of the books that weren't memorably good.

I once lived with a couple of other book fans, in a house with many built in shelves. That was the last time my collection was catalogued, since we each tracked our books to make it easier to split the library when we moved on to other digs. We suspected there'd be an interesting household dynamic when we realized there we each owned and had read Machiavelli's The Prince.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Our books are still in the damp garage; a project soon is to put one shelf above head-height in the hallway, to at least start getting them out of there. The shelves on all the walls project in the front room must wait until we take up the carpet and the horrible tile underneath, and put down something else. ANd I'm planning acrylic panes across the bottom of same, because the kids like books TOO much for comfort.

Back when we had the big house, the duplicates were in the guestroom.

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

Oh, and on the second project of the viking dress, I was meaning to do that, too. At least that was the plan before Pennsic, so I'd have it for coronation. After Pennsic, I'm thinking that I want to focus more on building out my later period stuff. Then again, it might be moot. Between WorldCon, the onomatopoeic event, and a sailing race out in California, I'm not sure how much chance I'll get to sew before coronation. Good luck!