Further Adventures in Life as a Listie

[dira]

This morning I added my birthday books from helaaspindakaas (A Paradise Built in Hell: the Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster and Debt: the First 5,000 Years) to my home library catalog, bringing my total of Non-Fiction books owned up to 152. (Arranged by Dewey Decimal call number. Naturally. It's a small collection, not oriented to heavy research.) (Cataloging for Fiction and A/V materials remains shamefully incomplete.)

After doing the necessary shifting to fit them on the bookshelves, it occurred to me to wonder where this put me along my quest toward an Old English Bryant or one of the subdivisions thereof (it being fairly obvious that on the metric scale this put me at .152 Bryants, or a little over one and a half Decibryants).

When I looked up the old scale, though, I was terribly charmed to realize that I have about six and a half Wallshels, as the shifting did in fact start the Non-Fiction collection onto its seventh shelf.




(Which means, I suppose, that my Ikea Flarkes are more or less Bryant-compliant.)

Comments

[reginagiraffe]

You're pretty close to a Dinky! (And *that's* a sentence I never expected to write.)

[dira]

Yes! I think once I catalog everything I'll have a bit over 3 Dinkys, maybe closing in on half a Rhoom.

[ellen_fremedon]

I do not do the LibraryThing, but I have been keeping a manual tally since the last time I did a proper count. Counting fiction, non-fiction, and the cookbooks (which are non-fiction, but are shelved separately), I seem to be about midway between a Rhoom and a half-Habryant.

[dira]

I have actually wandered off from LibraryThing into just ... keeping a spreadsheet. Most things have Cataloging-in-Publication info anyway, so I can pull a Dewey number from there, and I don't need Library Thing to make a spreadsheet for me, I can do that myself. *g*

Someday I will stop culling/losing books during moves and so on, and then I will reach a Rhoom. Someday. Even a metric Bryant would be rather pleasing!

[kd5mdk]

I use ReaderWare, and when we moved into this house I did close to a complete inventory. However, it is now sadly out of date and needs updating. One of the impressive things was it would take the current price on Amazon (.01 for many, given the silly pricing resellers use) and assemble a value to your collection. I was a bit shocked when it exceeded $10k.

[dira]

Oooh, that sounds handy. And, yeah, I remember trying to mentally calculate the approximate replacement costs of All My Books for renters-insurance purposes and boggling rather a lot.