Comments on: Some Things I’ve Discovered Using Readerware and LibraryThing https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/04/some-things-ive-discovered-using-readerware-and-librarything/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:04:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: meburste https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/04/some-things-ive-discovered-using-readerware-and-librarything/comment-page-1/#comment-1768 Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:04:34 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=240#comment-1768 Hey, Acres of Books! My parents live about fifteen minutes away (and they’ve been going there since the 1960s), so I drop in whenever I visit them. Unfortunately, I think I cleaned them out of their best nineteenth-century stuff when I was a graduate student, although I can usually find something.

I’ve also got a lifetime supply of books with no ISBNs–which happens when you’re a Victorianist–but Amazon apparently has a world’s-record number of Victorian sermons in its catalog. It’s bizarre.

]]> By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/04/some-things-ive-discovered-using-readerware-and-librarything/comment-page-1/#comment-1760 Sun, 06 Aug 2006 19:47:01 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=240#comment-1760 Loose divisions by subject matter. At the office, I’m going alphabetically within subject matter–all the African-related books together, world history together, anthropology and cultural studies together, and so on. Organizing alphabetically at home just seems too crazy, so it’s just by subject matter. Most of my science fiction is grouped, I have about two shelves for “books I plan to read soon/recent acquisitions”. All my graphic novels are together except for the ones like Powers that I don’t want my daughter to look at. Humor, baseball, urban planning, etc. are together; my wife keeps all her exercise and conditioning books on one shelf. Then we have about five shelves of miscellaneous stuff.

]]> By: loringp https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/04/some-things-ive-discovered-using-readerware-and-librarything/comment-page-1/#comment-1759 Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:24:43 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=240#comment-1759 As a person desperately in need of a library reorganization, I’ve got some questions for you: are you organizing sheerly alphabetically? Or are you fist making divisions by subject matter? If not by subject matter, are you at least breaking up, say, fiction, non-fiction, and children’s fiction?

]]> By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/04/some-things-ive-discovered-using-readerware-and-librarything/comment-page-1/#comment-1758 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:59:11 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=240#comment-1758 Yeah, that I gave up on, because a lot of the books I have are very old editions, or South African/Zimbabwean editions–I’d have to scan a lot of the covers myself.

]]> By: joeo https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/04/some-things-ive-discovered-using-readerware-and-librarything/comment-page-1/#comment-1757 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:49:54 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=240#comment-1757 The library thing is addictive. I just wasted alot of time making sure that I have the correct covers for all of my books.

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