Book Organization

[firstfrost]

So, I've finally finished cataloguing the library, which hit just over 2000 books. A lot of data entry, but I can get enthusiastic about obsessions. The next long-term goal is organization beyond just listing them in whatever order they ended up on the shelves in, but in the meantime I've been pruning duplicates and organizing to amuse myself, like putting Door into Ocean, Door into Summer, and Door into Shadow together as a series.

Most importantly, though - I've bonded with the library/guest room now. :) The kitchen and the bridge were probably the first rooms in the house to be comfortable, because of the time spent in them. The library, on the other hand, has mostly been the demesne (*) of other people. But now it's mine too.

*: Why does this word exist? What does it do for us that "domain" doesn't, other than confuse me?

So, there are a lot of books that are Free to a Good Home. Let me know if you want any. (Those that go unclaimed can go to places like the MITSFS and the library, but I figured I'd give people dibs first).

Winnie-the-Pooh (A. A. Milne)
Jhereg (Steven Brust)
Yendi (Steven Brust)
Freedom & Necessity (Steven Brust & Emma Bull)
Beyond the Pale (Mark Anthony)
The Worthing Saga (Orson Scott Card)
The Well-Favored Man (Elizabeth Wiley)
Curse of the Mistwraith (Janny Wurts)
Neutron Star (Larry Niven)
A Fire Upon the Deep (Vernor Vinge)
Mission of Gravity (Hal Clement) (x2)
The Peshawar Lancers (S M Stirling) (x2)
Chanur's Venture (C J Cherryh)
Secret of the Sixth Magic (Lyndon Hardy)
Brightness Falls from the Air (James Tiptree Jr)
Once A Hero (Michael Stackpole)
Cold Copper Tears (Glen Cook)
Sailing To Sarantium (Guy Gavriel Kay)
The Shadow of the Lion (Mercedes Lackey and Dave Freer)
Path of Fate (Diana Pharaoh Jones)
Path of Honor (Diana Pharaoh Jones)
The Bishop's Heir (Katherine Kurtz)
The Great Hunt (Robert Jordan)
The Shanghai Murders (David Rotenburg)
The Iliad (Homer / Lattimore translation)
Pass The Loot (Bill Amend)
My The Force be With Us Please (Bill Amend)
Build a Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies (Scott Adams)
Shave the Whales (Scott Adams) (x2)
Casual Day Has Gone Too Far (Scott Adams)
Our Dumb Century (the Onion)
Finest News Reporting Vol. One (the Onion)
Old Goriot (Honore de Balzac) (x3)
The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Tom Clancy)
Nineteen Eighty Four (George Orwell)
So Long and Thanks for All The Fish (Douglas Adams)
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
Elements of Style, 3rd edition (Strunk & White)
Thesaurus (Roget)
The Gumshoe, the Witch & the Virtual Corpse (Keith Hartman)
The Biograph Girl (William J Mann)
The Knot Guide to Wedding Vows and Traditions
Pogo vol 10 (Walt Kelly)
Fortune's Friends: Hell Week (Kay & Mike Reynolds)
Classics of Western Literature: Bloom County 1986-1989 (Berke Breathed)
You Are Here (Kyle Baker)
I Do: A Guide to Creating Your Own Unique Wedding Ceremony (Sydney Metrick)
Emily Post's Wedding Planner (Peggy Post)
Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends (Penn & Teller)
How to Play With Your Food (Penn & Teller)
Revenge of the Baby-sat (Bill Watterson)
The Authoritative Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
Something Under the Bed is Drooling (Bill Watterson)
Doonesbury's Greatest Hits (G B Trudeau)
The People's Doonesbury (G B Trudeau) (x2)
Doonesbury Deluxe (G B Trudeau)
The New Genetics & Clinical Practice (Weatherall)
10 Steps to Home Ownership (Ilyce Glink)
100 Questions Every First-time Home Buyer Should Ask (Ilyce Glink)

Comments

Re: So... did you do anything more spiffy than a text editor to make your list?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

did you do anything more spiffy than a text editor to make your list?

Oops. I'm a goof. I read that as "Did you use your book software to make the list of books you posted up there?" (answer: no), not "Do you have cool book software to catalog the 2000 books" (answer: yes). :)

I used "Readerware" (a GUI to an SQL database, and does web lookups based on ISBN) and a cheap cue-cat scanner. Which was, happily, a little faster than typing it all in.