{"id":5365,"date":"2009-01-02T15:59:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T23:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=5365"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:49:18","slug":"books-books-books-and-more-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/02\/books-books-books-and-more-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books, Books, Books, and More Books!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have so many books<\/em> in our apartment!<\/p>\n

For a few years now, I’ve been using LibraryThing<\/a> to track my book collection. Ever since Prairie and I moved in together, we’ve been occasionally talking about adding her books to the listing, but it always seemed like such a monumental undertaking that we never actually did anything about it. However, with us both on a bit of a holiday break, we decided that the time had come, and we’ve been plugging away at the collection, putting about a shelf a day into the database on my computer<\/a> and then uploading the day’s entries into the LibraryThing database.<\/p>\n

And now, the project is done: our entire library — all 1,465 books — is cataloged<\/a>!<\/p>\n

It’s a fun library, too. Between Prairie’s years in English Literature classes and love for the classics, my science-fiction collection, our mutual love for good children’s literature, and many other influences, we’ve ended up with a collection that goes all over the place.<\/p>\n

This also gave us a good chance to get a look at how we’re doing with those authors we’re making a point of collecting: Agatha Christie<\/a>, Anne Rice<\/a>, Dean Koontz<\/a>, Roald Dahl<\/a>, Stephen King<\/a> (a full set, we believe), and others<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We do love our books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a few years now, I’ve been using LibraryThing to track my book collection. Ever since Prairie and I moved in together, we’ve been occasionally talking about adding her books to the listing…and now, the project is done: our entire library — all 1,465 books — is cataloged!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036],"tags":[13,193],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}