Stocking stuffers anyone? Santa brought 6,000 index cards down the proverbial chimney today. Should have enough now to index all the books in the house?Medium-weight colored blank punched catalog cards
blue, green, buff, ivory, white, salmon
#PersonalLibrary
Acquired Brodart Colored Blank Punched Catalog Cards (shopbrodart.com)
Youtube vid: A seemingly nice lady, is sorting out what she claims is her personal home library of 800 books (mostly hardbacks).
So far so good.
Using only 8 IKEA Billy bookcases (with topper shelves) and they aren't double stacking books.... and I'm just..
HOW?
WHAT EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY tricks are they using, or are they just.. lying?
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Love to see Ex Libris images, and some are so cool. However I don't get why they uses erotic images for their books.
I cannot imagine myself doing the same and leaving those images in my books when I'm not in the world.
I don't get it.
#Books #ExLibris #PersonalLibrary
Love to see Ex Libris images, and some are so cool. However I don't get why they uses erotic images for their books.
I cannot imagine myself doing the same and leaving those images in my books when I'm not in the world.
I don't get it.
That's a beautiful design !
I would like to do that style for my personal library !
[Credits to the owner]
#Books #BookWorm #library #PersonalLibrary #Reader #Readers
That's a beautiful design !
I would like to do that style for my personal library !
[Credits to the owner]
Penguin Books Article from 2020 - regards Physical #Books
"What the size of your #books collection says about you"
https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/what-your-book-collection-says-about-you
0-5: The book monk
5-50: The read-and-chucker
Exactly 42 books: The meaning of life
50-150 books: The shelf sharer
150-500 books: The lay librarian
500+ books: The tsundoku master
🤔
R.J. Rushdoony's personal library.
Contains over 40,000 books in a 1,300 square foot house. And yes, he did read the entire library during his lifetime.
Absolutely remarkable.
#Books #BooksReading #Readers #Library #PersonalLibrary #BooksCollection
R.J. Rushdoony's personal library.
Contains over 40,000 books in a 1,300 square foot house. And yes, he did read the entire library during his lifetime.
Absolutely remarkable.
#Books #BooksReading #Readers #Library #PersonalLibrary #BooksCollection
I’ve added a #book to my #library. It should be arriving today. It will be placed in the German section of my collection.
English Title :: The Men with the Pink Triangle: The Account of a Homosexual about his concentration camp detention from 1939-1945
P.S. I’m going to need to get another bookshelf soon.
@originlbookgirl@mastodon.online @SharonCrockett I've had an account at LibraryThing for ages and I love it! It's just a book (and other print material) cataloging site run by people who love books.
It does draw data from Amazon but you can tweak your settings to prefer other sources.
Did I mention it's free?
#Books #Reading #PersonalLibrary #LibraryThing #DeleteAmazon
Analize me, daddy
/jk
#psychoanalysis #SigmundFreud #wilhelmreich #psychology #MassPsychology #books #personallibrary
Since there's like *no* good apps for personal #library management (because apparently no one has personal libraries any more /s 🙄), I'm looking into building one myself for my own use.
Problem: I *think* it's easy to find book info by #ISBN #barcode through services. I mean, ISBNs are standard and handled by almost all services.
However, it's trickier to find that information for #DVD / #Bluray movies. Especially since I'm in Finland and the #UPC codes are usually limited to specific release in market area.
...oh, I found one service that does have (web-scraped?) UPC data for a handful of DVDs that I threw at it.
Whatever, I just need the titles.
This service has an API. How do I access this stuff for my tiny little personal app?
...you want HOW MUCH per month for this mildly garbled data? 💸
...OK ok ok. You at least have bulk lookup, right? Upload a spreadsheet, get garbage out?
...even that is kinda pricey and adds up to a shitload with the size of my library.
Reading some Umberto Echo'
" .. are still people who consider a bookshelf as a mere storage place for already read books and do not think of a library as a working tool "
And.. Yes! So much yes !
Don't know how, but I was born a bibliophile and an avid reader into a family that just did not value books - aside from the Bible.
Oftentimes we would regard each other like differing Alien species - with no shared frame of reference.
@Bookstodon
#PragmaticShelving 1: smaller formats on upper shelves, over-sized on lower shelves.
How do you organize your #HomeLibrary / #PersonalLibrary?
https://marisabel.nl/social/load_post.php?type=image&id=39
I loved this! Still some work to do. But Progress is progress! :D
TFW multiple books you have in paperback or hardback go on sale in ebook. Very mixed feelings.
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