Dear Diary

[samvara]

• Books unpacked - collection now only fills two bookshelves which I intend to keep as an upper limit. So many books I now want to re-read - on hold until this Trimester is over.
• Feldenkrais class Part the Second still very interesting, am learning a lot about how my body moves.
• Archive of Our Own volunteering - back on Accessibility, Design, and Technology (ADT) for the 2012 term - Yay!
• Couch to 5km just finished week 3 - am doing about 3km in 30 mins. Woofer is loving it. Made ridiculously easy by mobile phone app which vibrates, goes 'bing' and says run to me at appropriate intervals. I just obey!

Comments

[sara]

...see, I thought I was doing well when I got down to, um...*counts* I think it's 38 single shelves of books. Though that's not counting the kids' books.

It's not a hoarding problem if they're in nice-looking shelves.

[samvara]

It's not a hoarding problem so long as you have room for them!

I'm moving more to ebooks and am keeping my library info on LibraryThing. I have been culling for a while and managed to get from this:


To this:


...not counting graphic novels, comics and photography magazines.

[sara]

Oh, I thought you meant, like, two individual shelves. Which...well, I was wondering about your priorities, to be frank. ;>

Voluntary simplicity is great and all, but.

[samvara]

Yiikes, I have no idea how I'd get it down that low - and you're right, I said 'bookshelves, not 'bookcases.'

[rabbit1080]

I read it as "bookcases" :) Your new book collection looks good.

I've finally started using Calibre for my e-library, which contains about 40 or 50 books I think. Thanks for the software rec - it's good at tag-wrangling, which makes for a much nicer e-browsing experience. I'm hoping to start migrating my shorter PDF papers, essays, etc into Calibre too, so I can browse for all my e-docs with a particular tag (I'm not that keen on separating stuff by document length, which happens with paper-books vs journal articles).

[samvara]

\o/ I have yet to alphabetise the non-fiction and fiction - I'm saving it for my next burst of study avoidance (along with doing my toenails).

I'm glad you like Calibre - I just wish I could synch data back to Calibre from my iPad - tag updates would be fantastic.