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[ksmith]

I was going to work on GIDEON this evening. What did I do instead? Cataloged books in LibraryThing. I passed 200, so I went ahead and bought a lifetime mebership.

200 books. About one bookcase. Four more to go.

I pulled books off the shelves to enter them, and now I don't know how I'm going to reshelve them. I think I wound up with more books than I started with, because I honestly don't know how the hell I managed to get them in the bookcase I took them out of.

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[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

because I honestly don't know how the hell I managed to get them in the bookcase I took them out of.

Oh, Universe, do I know that feeling! Hang in there.

[elmunadi.livejournal.com]

88 Xerox Boxes of Paperbacks on the Wall, 88 Xerox Boxes are here...
Take one down, enter it now, 87 Xerox Boxes of ... (you get the idea)

When we moved into our current place, it was 88 boxes of paperbacks, 14 of hardbacks, and a couple of much larger ones full of art books and the like.

in the 10 years since then... the library has only grown (groan?), and worse, my lady wife helps run a Borders... so we have strong encouragement to buy more (at a significant discount).

I truly dread trying to get these into librarything or its ilk... perhaps the right move is to get a barcode scanner - that'll collect the isbns on a very large percentage... though it won't make much of a dent in all the pre 1970-ish stuff.

As for the worm-can phenomenon you're experiencing with the bookcase? All I can do is suggest that you *must* stop breeding them.