BS: How organised is your home library?

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Nov 02 - 11:39 AM

LOL...I've been doing that left to right thing, too!

Hrothgar, we just built a cat run out our bedroom window using packing crate lumber, too. They love it!

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: GUEST,vectis
Date: 09 Nov 02 - 07:20 PM

Big uns on the bottom shelves, small uns on the top.
Most frequently used the easiest to get to.
Try to remember where you last saw the book you're looking for and what it looked like. Make the whole family look for each book that can't be spotted first time.
Keep intending to clear out the shelves a bit to cut the library down to just one room.

Not organised, but workable.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 11:50 AM

Just heard a story on NPR about a man who was temporarily evicted from his apartment because his landlord feared his books were a fire-hazard. Wonder how many Mudcatters might have worried landlords/spouses/neighbours!**bg**

here's the blurb: John Puchniak loves books so much they prompted his temporary eviction from his home in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. His landlord worried that the thousands of volumes Puchniak owns were a fire hazard. He shares his current reading list. And, a link CLICKIE.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 12:12 PM

Have any of gone to Amazon.com to order a book and got the message that you had bought a copy on such-and-such a date? I have.

Organization- whut's thet?

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Alice
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 12:17 PM

Anyone hear the re-run Prairie Home Companion this weekend?
The librarian in Lake Wobegon decided to re-arrange all the books
according to colors, rows of green, blue, etc. Residents
came in to see the beautiful color striped shelves and started randomly
picking out books to read.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 05:52 PM

First you arrange them by size and THEN by color. That makes it faster to find for the people who ask you for "the big red book I read about twelve years ago, it had black letters on white paper pages."

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 06:39 PM

I actually went to a used book store run by a guy I knew many years ago and asked for a "brown book"... a dull, brown book. He didn't even bat an eye, but handed me "The Illustrious Life of William McKinley"

I wanted to hollow it out to hide 'stuff' in....I still have it somewhere.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: SharonA
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 06:39 PM

The arrangement-by-color idea reminds me of a scene from the TV-movie "Finnegan Begin Again" (1985 HBO movie starring Robert Preston and Mary Tyler Moore). Sentimental, endearing movie! Haven't watched it in years, so I'm describing the scene from memory: Preston's wife, 10 years older than he, suffers from dementia and passes away, leaving a sizable amount of cash somewhere in the house they had shared. He and love interest Mary Tyler Moore determine that the money is in the library and that his late wife must have had some sort of dementia-driven filing system. Did she hide large bills in books on the same subject? by the same author? etc. They finally discover that she had put the money in all the black books!

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 08:24 PM

Back years ago we had someone call and tell us that she'd left several hundred dollars in one of the romance paperbacks and would we please go look for it? She'd left it there, she was sure, about two months back. Since we had at the time a couple thousand of the things, we told her that she was welcome to come look herself and that if had been in one of them that long the money now belonged to someone else.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 09:19 PM

Many years ago, an English Gentleman named Uriah Heap had a Library.

His filing system was later rationalised by an Indian Scholar.

I use the Ran Dom Heap filing system...

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: lisa null
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 10:04 PM

Charlie Baum and I have a fabulous library which was once organized but it has long since outgrown our shelves and has invaded almost every nook and cranny of our house. Every time I try to sneak books out of the house, Charlie discovers them anew and they take a new lease on life. Our vinyl and cd collection is even worse --either the cd's disappear into his black briefcase and rarely reappear or they sit on every square foot of available space.
Mostly we have folk stuff, music and popular culture, history, anthropology, poetry, and a few well-loved novels. I keep trying to winnow the collection down but one or the other of us loves everything we've got. We have surrendered ourselves to our books and recordings which should keep us well-satisfied forever.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Diva
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 06:14 AM

Books everywhere, all over the house, in book shelves in every room, in piles on the floor. I keep meaning to organise them but I'm too busy reading...honest. You'd never think I'd worked in the Uni library

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 06:27 AM

One of the joys of having a disorganised book collection is the serendipitous rediscovery of forgotten books. It usually happens while I'm looking for something else entirely, resulting in the original quest being forgotten.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 08:04 AM

Folk music and Folklore in the front room.

Books on Native Americans and the Fur Trade; The English Countryside;
Natural History, Botany and Gardening; The Balkans and Turkey in the back room (this room also houses my computers - I call it my 'shed').

SF and Fantasy paperbacks in one spare bedroom.

SF and Fantasy paperbacks and magazines in the other spare bedroom.

The overflow in my bedroom.

When I was a kid I always wanted my own library - but now I've got one, I can't help thinking it's a bit of a liability. Books are heavy and take up lots of space - and what do you do with those you don't want anymore (except give them to Oxfam)?

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: GUEST,Sheila
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 09:15 AM

Harvey, could you please tell where the poem, "I'd Rather Read a Book" may be found? You mentioned it 9 Aug. 02, at 5:26 AM. I know I'm going back a bit. Thanks.

Sheila

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 09:26 AM

Totally disorganised, although all important books like folk artist boigraphies are in the same pile. All my wife's travel stuff is in one bookcase, and all my downloaded live music is on an excel spreadsheet for easy manipulation and saved to DVD. All my circuit diagrams are in piles - all over the place because that's how it's always been.

Whwn you walk down our road the only item on the wall is a flat tv screen - always on of course and no sign of any books - and in the recycling box, copies of the Sun & Mirror!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Tinker
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 08:55 AM

I thought there was a thread about LIbrarything. I'm sure that's how I found out about it, but I can't seem to find it.

Anyway as a slightly early resolution I'm organizing My Library My kids are laughing that the books so far listed don't even make a dent. (I've asked Santa to bring me an scan cat to make it faster. But it's great fun to see what combinations of books you share with others. And which ones no one else has.

Kendall's Book Already had cover uploaded and was ready to go... The tag on my books that says 1L or 2D etc is the floor and room of hte house. 1st Floor Living Room or 2nd floor Den. NO not a single room is actually completed, infact at the moment not even a single shelving unit is completed, I keep getting distracted.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 09:03 AM

I'm a librarian.

My home library is sorta organized, in a vague and general way.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 10:24 AM

Libraries.

I organized my personal library like this: I gave it away. Well, we gave away 90% of it. After our 2000 housefire we re-thought a lot of the stuff packed into this rented old farmhouse. The sailboat-themed guest room some of you have slept in used to house the library after our kids moved out, and it still had all the homeschooling books I'd been stockpiling as well as kids' classics in reissue as well as in vintage print. Some of that went to Hardi's young brother to share with his new son; some of it went to friends according to topic/interest; most if it was boxed and dropped off at a used bookstore.

I kept things I was pretty sure I could never find online, things I wanted to read again, and a few things I thought future houseguests might find relaxing as bedtime reading.

Our shelves of MUSIC books are well-organized and even have their own room where they're out of the way till we want one, and it's nice to have them available.

My professional library is boxed in my archive room-- books and periodicals related to the various fields I've worked in and which I refer to or loan from, sporadically, that are irreplaceable. Hardi's professional library lives at his office.

The newer professional stuff lives near the music books in their own bookcase, since the room they are in also serves seasonally as a home classroom and reading room when we have a class organized.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 10:34 AM

Scholarly and thesis materials are all in one set of shelves. Music is all clustered in one room in two very large sets of shelves. Reference stuff is more or less all in the shelves behind and beside my computer and beside the kids' computer. The rest is a crap shoot in several rooms.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Susan of DT
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 09:09 PM

Thirty years ago when I was moving and the moving company estimator came in and looked at my books, I said "I have ton of books." He looked and said "Yes, you do." And I hardly had any books then...

I counted my bookcases and shelf length in 2004 (I only added a couple since then). At the time I had 5 small bookcases in the living room corner (fantasy and other paperbacks); 7 very tall bookcases in the dining room/library holding history (mostly medieval Britain, shelved by time period and/or location), King Arthur (fiction/history/lit), historical fiction (by year of story), and some miscellany; 4 bookcases in my office/computer room holding music and computer books; 5 bookcases in the upstairs study holding science and higher education books; one in the bedroom; and one in the other unused bedroom (study is also supposed to be a bedroom); for a total of 23 bookcases and 260 linear feet. I have moved some of them around since I retired and need different collections in different places and then Dick moved in (we had been commuting for 20+ years). I am currently trying to organize our joint music book collection that runs 15 shelves.

Most of my bookcases come from Ikea, with their better grade of bookcases in the dining room and their cheaper ones in my office. Some are hand made. A friend's boyfriend was a carpenter and I said I was thinking of buying some bookcases and said what they would cost. He took the bait and said, "I can make them for you cheaper than that."

At some point I had started cataloging the books in askSam, the same database we use for the Digital Tradition. I did not get terribly far and at some point when I got a new computer I failed to copy that file. I recently bought a cheap program called Book Collector that presumably looks up and enters all of the book information from the book number, but I have not yet opened the program to see whether it works.

I do take some books to the second hand paperback store, but come back with more than I dropped off. It is so hard to part with books, even such useful, current books as molecular biology from 1970...

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Joe_F
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 09:45 PM

Reference books, sorted by subject
Religion
Sex
Magazines
Other humanities, alph. by author or biographical subject
Fiction anthologies
Fiction, alph. by author
Poetry & plays, anthologies
Poetry & plays, alph. by author
Art
Science & technology, sorted by subject
Cookbooks

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 10:03 PM

Six years ago, I moved into this house with eighteen bookcases and not much more. Need I say more?

I have tired to build a database of my music books, but I haven't been completely successful in keeping up with it. I have 518 music bootks listed - I'll bet I have another 500 that excaped the database.

I suppose I ought to catalong the Bible and religion books, but I'm not ready for that yet....

Help!!!

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Dec 07 - 12:07 AM

Susan and Joe, I found the program for booksellers at ABEBooks was fairly easy to use. It does look up the info for you about each book, though it's not really much good for older, out-or-print with no ISBNs. For those I take a look at addall.com.

I would really love a hand-held scanner (don't want much do I?)'cause it's much too tedious to fetch a pile of books, sit here and log in each one with all of its info, then repeat ad infinitum and I don't have nearly the amount I used to; in fact, I hardly have any compared to a few of you!**bg**

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: GUEST,maire-aine
Date: 12 Dec 07 - 10:29 AM

Looking back at my post from 2002, gosh! if only it were still that organized... Oh, well.

From underneith a pile of clutter,
Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Dec 07 - 03:21 PM

I think programs like Endnote will also retrieve a lot of information if you enter the ISBN. If your books are new enough to have an ISBN, that is.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: autolycus
Date: 12 Dec 07 - 03:28 PM

Let's put it this way.

it's a little difficult to get to bed.

   And I read about some medieval monk who had a library of 17000 books. (Just have to keep treckin')

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Beer
Date: 12 Dec 07 - 03:50 PM

In one of my shelving areas I have my Canadian history collection which numbers 320 books.

Another shelving area I have 111 of my favorite soft covered books

Then I have a little over 200 old hard cover books that I try and sell on e-bay. Although this I haven't done since last July. Lazy I guess.

Another area I have 39 (mostly old) books on birds.
also have hundreds of song sheets in binders and filing folders .

No real system but one I'm comfortable with.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 01:44 AM

subject*, alphabetic**, size & room

* well some subjects are single, others are combined.

** some alphabets are slightly upset by the partitions on my 2 big bookcases.

I designed the 2 big bookcases - solid pine 2.18m high x 1.45m wide, with 6 different hight shelves each. Around one & a half shelves hold other stuff than books, majority of the books are on Historic Costume. Some social history & doll/bear/dollhouse books are also filed with them. I have one & 1 half shelves of children's books (octavo & foolscap sizes) & half a shelf of Asterix books (almost all of them!!) & about half a shelf of art history/archaeology/Dr who anniversary books (20th, 25th 40th etc) & other books.

These bookcases are in my bedroom along with a 3ft x 3 ft bookcase containing half a shelf of Tolkien books & similar space of large picture books on the making of the movies. I also have half a shelf of Outsize craft, costume & other books.

In my living room I have a storage cabinet with 6 deep book shelves almost a metre wide, again designed by me. It contains books on meditation & mythology (1 shelf), dictionaries & word books (half a shelf), translations of classical Japanese literature (half a shelf), lacemaking, embroidery & craft books (2 shelves, both doubled up with smaller books in front), social history & folklore (over one shelf + 2 pamphlet boxes filed under a small side table) & photo albums (2 shelves with assorted books in front of albums).

Another bookcase used as a display cabinet has half a shelf of vintage dressmaking books, and a full shelf of pamphlet boxes containing craft books, booklets & photocopies, and more photo albums.

I also have a very small bookcase 3 ft x 2 ft that contains paperbacks - science fiction/fantasy, including all the Harry Potter book & many of Andre Norton's books, humour, a few thrillers, & some more Outsize books.

I have piles of library books on the floor next to my table, along with the other books I'm reading/looking at.

In the kitchen I have 13 cookbooks, rarely used, 2 kitchen/cookery enquire-within-for-almost-everything-ya-need-to-know books.

I don't have any books in my bathroom!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: theleveller
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 03:28 AM

I've just got books everywhere - in piles, in boxes, under the bed. How boring having them all arranged on shelves. Where's the serendipity of going to look for a book and finding one that's far more interesting? And as for counting them - what's the point of that? How many books have I got? A f**k of a lot.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Gulliver
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 02:38 PM

My books are all over the place--every so often I bring a stack of them down to the local charity store but it doesn't make much of a difference. Have bought only a handful over the last two years, as I now download anything I find interesting and read it on my laptop.

The mention above of LibraryThing has given me yet another thing to try out and play with, although I wanted to check it out anyway as I do work for a library. Anyway, I started by listing some of my German books, which was slow going until I started getting the hang of the search utilities. They're at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Hohenloh . There's no way I'd get all my books up there!

Don

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 02:51 PM

Masato Sakurai once described his library to me, and I worried then that he'd disappear into it someday; hmmmm.... it's been awhile since we heard from him........

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Becca72
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 04:48 PM

I feel much better about my collection after reading this thread! I have 4 bookcases in my studio apartment, plus a couple piles on the floor and dresser...

The only organization to speak of is that all of my Stephen King books are in the same case and all of my Star Wars books are in the same case. Other than that, it's a free-for-all.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: autolycus
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 03:30 PM

No books in your toilet - I'm sorry bathroom ?(same thing in my place.

i keep a lot of humorous books in there to enjoy while I'm waiting, not straining.

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 04:26 PM

Some parts better than others. Several shelves of North American (mostly US) history, chronologically, from the early European colonization through LBJ. Similar, smaller sections for the various parts of the UK and Ireland, France, Germany. A stab at organizing world history chronologically.

Main problem with this is that any new addition in any of these categories seems to necessitate reorganization of the shelves. And the height of books further complicates the situation.

Also need more shelves-- for sure.

The one part which is definitely organized is the choral music section. I'm determined not to buy a score twice. So choral part of any substantial piece goes into alphabetical order, by composer. If we do the same piece years later, I can just pull it off the shelf. And my markings are already in it.

Has proven worthwhile.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 08:16 PM

Since the 5 year old survey, we've shown remarkable restraint¹ in only adding about another 20 lineal feet of shelf space, bringing us to about 330 lineal feet. Some of the "tops" of the tall book cases have been "reorganized" by laying some flat. (You can make a stack taller than the average height of a book, so you squeeze a few more books in, and there was all of 3 or 4 inches of wasted space in a few places. There isn't any more.)

¹ The "restraint" is perhaps less remarkable when one observes that there are no more walls where more shelves can be put. We do, after all have a "small house" with only about 3,500 sq ft of floors to put walls around.

LiK has developed a new method of organization, particularly for her more recent acquisitions. The newer books are generally placed near the top of a pile on the floor, with older ones further down - unless one of the cats (or dogs) have tipped a pile over, in which cases she uses the method where the ones closest to where the pile must be rebuilt generally end up lower down and the ones that landed where they're harder to reach end up nearer the top, or occasionally remain where they landed as the start of a new pile.

An orderly sorting into sub-categories results from the tendency for the stacks of books she's read in bed (most of them) are in stacks in the bedroom, which seems quite logical to me. The books she intends to take elsewhere "to share" are generally in paper sacks (often "shopping bags" - up to 3 or 4, although rarely as many as 5) by the back door, while the ones she brought back with her (from friends who shared) are in separate sacks and/or torn up boxes in the same general vicinity (some of her friends fail to provide truly adequat packaging).

(Many of the ones she brings back, that friends insisted she "must have," go directly to the "ready to go" stashes for re-distribution. She says some of her friends have "less literate tastes" than hers.)

The "Index" that I previously kept when I was really busy seems to have terminated some time ago at 2,127 titles, mostly mine. Since my "retired" lifestyle doesn't demand as much organization, I feel I have an excuse - but I don't know what her claims might be. She has her own index but I don't think she's kept it too well up to date. I would suspect that she has at least 2,000 titles "somewhere" but I'd have to count the stacks on the floors for an update to my guess.

Ultimately, the only surviving organization really is just into two categories formally referred to as "somewhere" and "elsewhere."

John

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 08:29 PM

JohninKS, LOL...a small house is more like ours...about 875 sq. ft! (If Rog had a penny for everytime I say "this house is too small" he'd be rich!)

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 10:38 PM

Ivor - over the years in Oz & probably in Britain too, we have been amused when Americans refer to the "toilet" as the 'bathroom". In recent years more Australians use "bathroom" instead of "toilet" due to increasing American cultural overload.

click here for more than you ever wanted to know about that item of water-flushed vitreous china variously known in USA as toilet, commode, bathroom or closet

Anyhow, my Australian bathroom contains a bath, basin, toilet, washing machine, dryer & cupboard! As well as lots of plants, sea shells & toys used as ornaments. Specifically plastic teddy bears & yellow plastic ducks!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: autolycus
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 09:37 AM

Mines got bath, toilet, basin, toiletries, a few things Hannah, my older young lady, left behing, tiolet brush, and about 30 funny books, especially B.C., Wizard of Id, Joys of Yiddish, funny one about cricket, and Dilbert.


Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 10:43 AM

Kat--are you familiar with the Library of Congress shelving system? I am. All my books are shelved not that way. Here is used the JotSC haphazard, put 'em wherever system. But I at least I know where a particular title is...approximately.
My fiction collection is very small, only a few books I really, really like. New fiction must replace a book I am through with, else my storage system becomes unruly.
Old books make great kindling for cool autumn fireplaces. I generally choose great classics like the Bible, Huckleberry Finn, Tropic of Cancer or Fahrenheit 451. Controversial books give the most satisfaction per BTU emitted.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 10:52 AM

LMAO, JohninKS! Sounds like my system sans the bonfire...what vanity!

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 11:29 AM

I think you're mixing your Johns, Kat.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Dan Keding
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 12:20 PM

Well, I've got about three thousand books in my office on folktales, fairy tales, ballads and folklore. I arrange them by type - all the English ballads on one shelf, Irish folktales on another, Japanese folktales on another, folklore on another, academic books on another, etc. I do try and keep the folktale collections in the same geographic area on the same shelf if possible - China next to Japan and Korea; England, Scotland, Wales etc. I keep the ballads separate from the stories. I try to make sure that when I need something I know just where it is so I can quickly lay my hands on it. I do not arrange by author because I can't keep track of all the authors in my library. I've never put them on a data base but it probably would be a great idea.

The best way to arrange a library is the way that will be fastest and easiest for the you.

Dan

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Joe_F
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 07:51 PM

I forgot songs! On the top shelf, next to the art.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 08:10 PM

Oh! Sorry about that JohnSunset:-) I loved your post, nevertheless!

(Mixing my Johns sounds naughty!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Tinker
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 08:17 PM

Okay, I figure if there's folks who post to hit 100. I can celebrate breaking 1000. I confess I'm doing all the "easy" newer books with IBSN numbers (and my kids are still taking odds the job will never be done) The Pre-Library of Congress Numbers take a little more effort. But the first milestone was accomplished before New Years. Now if I can just stay motivated...


1200 books and counting...

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 09:24 PM

Wow! Good for you, Tink!! Congrats!

One thing I love about the used bookstore I go to: they keep a list of all of the books I buy, so all I have to do is ask for a printout and copy from that OR, hmmm...wonder if they could copy my records to disk. That's be even easier!

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Goose Gander
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 01:33 PM

My 'libary' is completely disorganized, like the rest of my life. Piles of books and papers stacked on top of, in front of, and behind other stacks, blocked off by chairs to keep the dog away. In another decade or so, I fully expect my house to look like the set of "Sanford and Son."

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Gulliver
Date: 01 Jan 08 - 01:33 PM

I was just looking through Tinker's catalogued books on LibraryThing and thinking it would be nice if you could just click on a cover and the book would open up on your PC. I suppose that's the way it will be in the future--all books (or should I say data/information?) will be available online.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jan 08 - 06:35 PM

Might not be too long form now, you could be reading them THIS WAY. Not quite the same, though, is it?