Been busy with move and wedding stuff (and a Fallout 3 addiction). I've got a memorial day post planned, but don't think I'll get to it until this evening at the earliest.
Among other things, I've put almost my entire collection of books up at Librarything. I've been rather pleased with it so far. I even bought a CueCat barcode reader to speed up insertion. That helped and was more fun then typing them in, but I think it only managed about half to two-thirds of the books.
Aside from enjoying cataloging, I put up the data in an effort to organize and trim some of the fat from my ~500 book library. I figure it will be easier to check out reviews and such on some of the old textbooks whose quality I have forgotten if I ever measured them. If anyone recommends any other methods for weeding out the less helpful non-fiction books, please let me know. Lots of books are fun, but ultimately there are transaction costs in mixing good and mediocre material. The marginal return of an okay book might be outweighed by distracting me from looking something up in a better one. Space limitations are also an issue, but the time factor is a bit more of an interesting problem.
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