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Member: Halieus

CollectionsYour library (1,291), Wishlist (41), To read (42), All collections (1,291)

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TagsOffice (678), Scan Cover (339), Closet-N (292), Ref (255), 1980s (231), ~Tag This (223), Closet-S (216), 1st ed. (198), 1990s (180), Western (143) — see all tags

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GroupsBookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, Build the Open Shelves Classification, Christianity, Combiners!, Early Reviewers, Homeschool Home Libraries, Used Books, Westerns

Favorite authorsAndrew Watterson Blackwood, John Albert Broadus, Kenneth I. Brown, Clarence Sexton, Dr., Joseph S. Exell, Charles W. Koller, Louis L'Amour, Marcus Luttrell, Edward Stratemeyer, John C. Whitcomb (Shared favorites)

About meYou can see my "Wish List" of books by clicking ->right here.

About my libraryLT is the best thing to happen to our library since bookcases and shelves!!

Our library is large for one family, although it's not anywhere near the size of the largest libraries represented here on LT. (My best estimate is ~2 to ~5,000 volumes; I'll know... (I hope soon) what the total is when I find the time to enter the books we have.)

I LOVE tags... "Tags are our friends." If I'm going to go thru the all trouble of attempting to organize all of these books, I decided I want to be able to find the books when I'm all done (and at least leave a trail of breadcrumbs for others to find the good stuff too).

There are room-specific tags, bookcase- (or box-) specific tags, shelf- (and/or physical location-) specific tags, subject tags, decade published tags, and 1st / 2nd editions (mostly only 1st ed, 1st printings, or 2nd ed, 1st printings are tagged). There are many other tags, "Faith Based Books" occupies a large portion of the library (with many still to enter -- these are anything that reference God positively -- from Bibles, commentaries, devotionals, & biographies to Christian fiction, money management, & "how-to" books). "Reference," "History," and "Business" also have quite a bit of shelf-space, but there are a number of loose-cannon tags (to match my personality) interspersed throughout as well. Also, I combine all of my Autobiographies, Biographies, Diaries, Correspondence, and Memoirs under "Biographical Works" -- including biographical works of military units and corporations. Haven't run across anyone else that does this, but seems to work best for me.

Books coming out of boxes (and coming home for the first time) are usually labeled "~Shelve" while those that are recently entered into LT are only labeled "~Tag This" until I get around to unpiling them. (some have been unpiled and shelved... so they'll have a location as well, but won't have all of their topic-specific tags yet.)

In the interest of full disclosure, I do have a few books entered here on LT as "Wish-List" (no, I don't have any shame; yes, I like to give not-so-subtle hints about what I really want) those are generally also labeled "NIL" (not in library) until I get them as a gift... for Christmas, my birthday, or whatever other reason I may receive books. The other NIL books are those I've checked out of the library recently. If they're good enough (4½-5 stars) they too will make the Wish List... eventually.

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Member sinceFeb 9, 2007