March 14, 2008
Library Stats!
I have finished entering allll my books into my LibraryThing Catalog!! YAY! A few stats:
202 unread books (can buy more when that's down to 180)
956 read books (nearly all of these are available for loan!)Of the read books:
536 are fiction
252 are nonfictionPretty neat, eh? I'm psyched. I wish I had a widget that would dynamically show how many unread books I have so I could put it in the left column, but Oh Well.
February 27, 2008
Woo Hoo!
I have finally finished entering alllll my "read" books into LibraryThing! Yay! I have 951 books in that category, wow.
And they are all available for loan!
Well, except the ones that are already out on loan. :)
I've said for some time that I wouldn't add my unread books into the catalog until I'd read them, but I realized that if I catalog them all now, it'll be a LOT easier to count them. And since I've decided to ration my book buying according to how many unread books I have on hand, an easy way to track how many unread books I have will make my life a lot simpler.
So: if a book is tagged "not for loan," it's not for loan. If it's tagged "available for loan," then it's available. :) I'm going to try to update tags according to what's loaned out, we'll see how that works. If I can use LibraryThing to track book loaning, my life will be even simpler (I figure I can tag things "out on loan" and use the comment field to track who borrowed 'em and when).
So how is my book rationing going to work, I hear you ask?
Well. I estimate I have about 300 unread books (I'm still entering them all into LibraryThing, though, so I don't have an exact number). I figure that as I reach nice, round cutoffs every 20 books, I shall allow myself to buy new books. The number of new books bought will depend on my finances on hand, rather than be a predetermined amount. HOWEVER! Once I've exercised the privilege of buying books at a given unread book level, I can't do it again. So if I get my unread pile down to, say, 240 books and then buy ten books, so it's at 250, I have to make it down to 220 before I'm allowed to buy new books.
Once I've finished inputting all my unread books, I shall add a section in the lefthand sidebar tracking my unread books progress. Woot.
January 11, 2008
2007 In Review
Hm. I read 25 books last year, according to my booklog (The Lost One doesn't count, cos I'm still reading it). I feel like I must've finished a book between November 30 and December 31, but apparently not. Sigh.
I want to finish The Lost One, but it's a real slog. I'm only 60 pages from the end, but it seems like an eternity. Feh. But I love Peter Lorre too much not to finish it, even though I know the end of his life was really sad.
I'm hoping to read (by which I mean, finish reading) more books in 2008 than I did in 2007. Let's see how it goes.
2007 in Books:
- Speak Now
- How to Succeed in Murder
- The Subtle Knife
- Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Duelling
- Dead Beat
- Storm Front (Book One of the Dresden Files)
- Fool Moon (Book Two of the Dresden Files)
- Grave Peril (Book Three of the Dresden Files)
- Summer Knight (Book Four of the Dresden Files)
- Death Masks (Book Five of the Dresden Files)
- Blood Rites (Book Six of the Dresden Files)
- My Life with the Spirits
- The Gift of Fear
- Stealing Jesus
- Proven Guilty (Book Seven of The Dresden Files)
- Dead Witch Walking (Rachel Morgan, Book 1)
- Moby Dick
- East of Eden
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Loving What Is
- The Myth of Matriarchal Pre-History: Why a Manufactured Past Won't Give Women a Future
- The Way of the Traitor
- Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth
- Your Money or Your Life
- Maverick
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
- YOU: On a Diet
- The Millionaire Next Door
December 29, 2003
testing
Just checking to see if the new blog's working...
...or not.
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