{"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":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4323,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.librarything.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260223201929\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.librarything.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 03:25:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 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17:52:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>We have <em>so many books<\/em> in our apartment!<\/p>\n<p>For a few years now, I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\" title=\"LibraryThing\">LibraryThing<\/a> to track my book collection. Ever since Prairie and I moved in together, we&#8217;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&#8217;ve been plugging away at the collection, putting about a shelf a day into the database <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruji.com\/bookpedia\/\" title=\"BookPedia\">on my computer<\/a> and then uploading the day&#8217;s entries into the LibraryThing database.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the project is done: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog.php?view=djwudi&amp;shelf=list&amp;sort=authorunflip&amp;sort=authorunflip\" title=\"LibraryThing: Our Library\">our entire library &#8212; all 1,465 books &#8212; is cataloged<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fun library, too. Between Prairie&#8217;s years in English Literature classes and love for the classics, my science-fiction collection, our mutual love for good children&#8217;s literature, and many other influences, we&#8217;ve ended up with a collection that goes all over the place.<\/p>\n<p>This also gave us a good chance to get a look at how we&#8217;re doing with those authors we&#8217;re making a point of collecting: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog.php?view=djwudi&amp;searchall=1&amp;deepsearch=agatha+christie&amp;shelf=list&amp;sort=authorunflip&amp;sort=authorunflip\" title=\"LibraryThing: djwudi: Agatha Christie\">Agatha Christie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog.php?view=djwudi&amp;searchall=1&amp;deepsearch=anne+rice&amp;shelf=list&amp;sort=authorunflip&amp;sort=authorunflip\" title=\"LibraryThing: djwudi: Anne Rice\">Anne Rice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog.php?view=djwudi&amp;searchall=1&amp;deepsearch=dean+koontz&amp;shelf=list&amp;sort=authorunflip&amp;sort=authorunflip\" title=\"LibraryThing: djwudi: Dean Koontz\">Dean Koontz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog.php?view=djwudi&amp;searchall=1&amp;deepsearch=roald+dahl&amp;shelf=list&amp;sort=authorunflip&amp;sort=authorunflip\" title=\"LibraryThing: djwudi: Roald Dahl\">Roald Dahl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog.php?view=djwudi&amp;searchall=1&amp;deepsearch=stephen+king&amp;shelf=list&amp;sort=authorunflip&amp;sort=authorunflip\" title=\"LibraryThing: djwudi: Stephen King\">Stephen King<\/a> (a full set, we believe), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog.php?view=djwudi&amp;searchall=1&amp;deepsearch=star+trek&amp;shelf=list&amp;sort=authorunflip&amp;sort=authorunflip\" title=\"LibraryThing: djwudi: Star Trek\">others<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We do love our books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few years now, I&#8217;ve been using LibraryThing to track my book collection. Ever since Prairie and I moved in together, we&#8217;ve been occasionally talking about adding her books to the listing&#8230;and now, the project is done: our entire library &#8212; all 1,465 books &#8212; is cataloged!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[13,193],"class_list":["post-5365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-life","tag-prairie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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}]}}