Obsession

What a strangely productive weekend. Strange because I mostly did one thing for two days. Productive because the one thing I did was catalogue our book collection using LibraryThing. We now have SIX HUNDRED… enam ratus… 六百… 600… books listed! All this, despite the fact that the barcode scanner we borrowed from work didn’t work (it wouldn’t plug in).

I find LibraryThing so enjoyable to use that cataloguing our books doesn’t feel like a chore at all. I think it helps that when I get tired of one genre I switch to another. “Ugh, not more epistemology, let’s do erotica!” (Sadly, I have only found one volume of erotica so far, and at least fifty philosphy titles.)

I now know that we have forty three cookbooks, forty eight books in Malay (and mine is the only library on the LibraryThing system with books in Malay!) and seven books on Sweden – all Henning Mankell novels.

There are still shelves and shelves of books to get through. I wish I could stay home all week. I think I’m obsessed…

Categories: books, LibraryThing, Internet, technology, obsession