We are, at long last, unpacking all the books we own. Those of you who have helped us move will be wondering how we can afford the rent on the second house, to put them in, but what really happened is that we were given (given!) approximately 15 feet of 8 foot high bookshelves. (Wee perspective: this will hold all but 6 or 7 hundred of our books) So it's a bit of a Job.
Especially since I think if I'm going to put 700 paperbacks on bookshelves, I want to be able to FIND my copy of Out of Africa* when I want it, so I am insisting on alphabetizing the paperbacks. ("Please", I sobbed a few nights ago, "May I never see another book." And then I went upstairs to fall asleep in a bubble bath with ...umm ...a book.)
However, this post is only peripherally about how many books there are. This post is primarily to make fun of myself. We have 50 books in their own bookshelf, fancy leather bound editions of Classics or some such thing put out by the Franklin Library several years ago. I've just finished putting these, alphabetized, on their special bookshelf. They're lovely fancy looking books and I haven't read a single one of them, because I was saving them for ...brace yourself ...I was saving them to read, in a halo of lamplight apparently, while I nursed my children, in those long relaxed hours you have when you bring home your first child.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
For some reason, I still haven't gotten to them. Can't think why not.
*Or one of my copies. Apparently if it's worth owning, it's worth owning twice. Or three times, in the case of The Secret Garden.
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I bought three extraordinarily difficult cross-stitch samplers I was going to make while I was off work with the newborn (some vision of handmade niceties adorning the nursery) ... I sold the (unopened) complete packs in our garage sale the weekend before we left Whangarei.
Are you alphabetising by name of book, or name of author ?
And has the TechnoGenius constructed a database that cross-references title and author by subject ? Cos that'd be kind of cool ...
First of all, I'm a WRITER - they're alphabetized by author, of course. (speaking of which, I'm missing 21 thru 27 of Footrot Flats - feel like going shopping?)
And as to the database ...you have no idea. It used to be that no book or CD could enter this house without getting entered into the database and then have a little label affixed to it somewhere. I ribbed him so mercilessly that this practice has since stopped.
I work in a library.
Welcome to my world.
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