My library

[Addy]

I'm crossposting from the lounge. If it annoys anyone, please delete it.

I got most of my books up on shelfari.com. It took me all of an hour. So you get the idea how big my collection is.

Link.

Feel free to point and laugh.

[Aya]

laugh? I would say rather 'wow'. You have a really great collection

[iansales]

I prefer LibraryThing to Shelfari.

[Connavar]

Any of these library things free?

I need one, my collection is getting bigger and bigger and i need some sort of order.

[Addy]

Originally Posted by Aya

laugh? I would say rather 'wow'. You have a really great collection

Thanks. Quality over quantity, right? I don't think it's nearly as comprehensive as most others I've seen here. I've only been really collecting and reading SF & F for a few months.

[Addy]

Iansales, I looked into LibraryThing, but I thought Shelfari looked a bit more user-friendly.

Connavar, yes, they're free.

[Jack]

‘yes, they're free.’

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online


Right up to the point that you use the spaces all up – Seems I’ll have to pay or just rely on old pen and paper – mumble mumble, read far too much, didn't even get halfway.

[Addy]

Originally Posted by Jack

Right up to the point that you use the spaces all up – Seems I’ll have to pay or just rely on old pen and paper – mumble mumble, read far too much, didn't even get halfway.

Or you can continue your collection in another on-line service. Not really ideal, but it's a solution.

[Rosemary]

Great collections! Both Library Thing and Shelfari look very professional and clear.
I have a a lot of mine in Bibliophil but it doesn't look very tidy. It's going to take a lot of fiddling around to transfer all of them to either Library Thing and Shelfari, so I shall think about it!

[Jack]

Used series names instead of each book individually, quite handy – Now, to fill up some space again! Ha ha!

[pixymiss]

Wow! thanks for the link!! i`m filling up my bookshelves as we speak!!

[j. d. worthington]

Addy... if you've only been at this a short while, you've certainly made some very good headway... and quite a lot of quality there, as well. It's a collection to be proud of. (And remember, whatever size a book collection may be, the important thing is that it fulfill what the owner wishes to get out of that collection. Size isn't the important thing here, either... how it gives you what you want is. That is what makes a book collection impressive....)

[Addy]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

Addy... if you've only been at this a short while, you've certainly made some very good headway... and quite a lot of quality there, as well. It's a collection to be proud of. (And remember, whatever size a book collection may be, the important thing is that it fulfill what the owner wishes to get out of that collection. Size isn't the important thing here, either... how it gives you what you want is. That is what makes a book collection impressive....)

Yes, I get it. Size doesn't matter, only the pleasure that can be obtained.

Now seriously, thanks a lot. But I think the only extraordinary thing about my library is that a third of it is in my TBR pile.

I'm reading The Lord of the Rings right now, actually. For the first time ever. The movie has kinda spoiled it a bit for me. Every scene I read that's somewhat faithfully reproduced in the film is inevitably filled with the likes of Elijah Wood and whatnot in my head.

I shall overcome SF & F illiteracy given time. I promise you that.

I'll add my other books to Shelfari soon. My non-SF & F shelves are quite funny to look at. Books on woodworking, guitar building, oil painting, music, the works.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by Addy

Yes, I get it. Size doesn't matter, only the pleasure that can be obtained.

Now seriously, thanks a lot. But I think the only extraordinary thing about my library is that a third of it is in my TBR pile.

I'm reading The Lord of the Rings right now, actually. For the first time ever. The movie has kinda spoiled it a bit for me. Every scene I read that's somewhat faithfully reproduced in the film is inevitably filled with the likes of Elijah Wood and whatnot in my head.

I shall overcome SF & F illiteracy given time. I promise you that.

I'll add my other books to Shelfari soon. My non-SF & F shelves are quite funny to look at. Books on woodworking, guitar building, oil painting, music, the works.

Considering that I started collecting sf back when I was about 6 (back somewhere in the Devonian Age, I think), I do have a fair chunk of it... also a lot of fantasy. But the majority of my book-buying for the last several years has been in older writers... what one might call, in some cases, the progenitors (or quite early practitioners of, depending on who you talk to) of sff... not to mention a lot of 18th and 19th century writers who aren't even connected to it... and folklore, and philosophy, and general fiction..... So my sff is becoming a diminishing part of my library these days....

[Addy]

I actually had quite a few books when I was a kid. I read anything I could get my hands on, so relatives and acquaintances were always dumping their unwanted books on me. I amassed a small collection of pulp fiction that way. Lots of Agatha Christie, Perry Rhodan, along with some older stuff, like Jules Verne, Bram Stoker, Sir Walter Scott. I wonder where those ended up. I moved out of my parents' place, and then they moved out of the old house, and I guess somehow those books got lost or given away. I wouldn't mind having them now.