Old books
One of the only negative aspects of my current book cataloguing obsession is that it’s making me feel a bit old.
Specifically, this ageing feeling started after I began to enter my medical textbooks into Library Thing, only to discover that most of them are at least two or three editions behind the times. For some of them I couldn’t even find an accurate cover image anywhere online they were that old. It doesn’t seem like all that long ago I was back in medical school leafing through all these books, yet in reality most of them were purchased over 10 years ago! It’s scary how fast time passes.
Aside from that, the cataloguing itself is going great guns, proceeding at a much faster pace than I would have anticipated, thanks to the slickness of Library thing. I’ve discovered just what a wonderful thing ISBN codes are - entering them in gives me a more accurate result faster than just using author/title. And LibraryThing have quoted me on their Buzz page which is kinda cool (just look down near the bottom…)
At present I’m up to 480 books in my library, which is probably around two thirds to three quarters of the total. Should pass the big 500 later tonight. You may notice I’ve added Library thing to the right sidebar of the blog instead of the Now reading wordpress plugin, with a current reading section and also a display of random books from my collection.
Anyway I suppose I’d better get back to work. Library thing is a wonder, but it doesn’t heal the sick…
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