Random books from montenegro's library

About my libraryI have MANY separate LT lists (15 actually) relating to books, dvds, and cds -- owning them, reading them, watching them and listening to them. I also maintain lists for future reading, viewing and listening. I even have a separate list for my travel destinations. Some will be public, most of them private (I mean do you actually care what I read, watch, listen to?)

My general book collection is listed under 'xenophon' (which, when completed, should have 4000+ books.) My genre fiction collection is listed on LT under 'mysterysf' (which, when finished, will probably have 3000+ books.) I currently have listed 4500+ books in these two collections (with about 30,000 tags) -- I had MANY more tags in each collection until I learned to properly use the 'comment' section of LT.) Both of these LT lists are currently private while I refine them.

'montenegro' is an LT list of books from these two collections that are now with me on a temporary overseas assignment. This LT site also contains books from my wife's own LT lists. This is a 'public' LT list so that individuals near where we currently live can borrow them. Like many, I am not too keen to lend books, but these books are mostly duplicates anyway. LT is a great tool for keeping track of what you lent, to whom, and when.

So that I don't clog up my 'actual' libraries, I have created LT sites for those books that I wish to read/purchase under 'toread1' (for general books) and 'toread2' (for genre books.) Amazon also has a great website for listing books you are interested in purchasing in the future. My list there is several hundred books long. I buy about 500 books a year, many via amazon.

Because I wish to maintain 'pure' book collection lists, I also have LT lists for my cd collection ('cd collection') and dvd collection ('dvdcollection'). Both of these lists are currently private while I refine them. These lists will eventually number in the 2000+ (dvd) and 4000+ (cd) range. For personal purposes I maintain private LT lists of those movies/tv series watched/to be watched ('toview') and cd's listened to/to be listened to ('tolisten'.)

For reference purposes I also maintain private LT lists of books that I have obtained over the years, read over the years, as well as those I have disposed of since I started using LT. I travel a fair amount and have an LT list 'worldtravel' of where I have been/what I have seen.

I attempt to keep these various lists tagged and cross-referenced as appropriate. (Yes I know, I devote FAR too many hours of the day to updating/maintaining these lists.) Someday they will be done and the 4-6 hours a day on LT can be put back into actual reading/viewing. I DO get to listen to my cd collection while on LT.

I have also created separate LT lists for my wife's library -- those she has in the United States and those she has in her permanent residence in Europe. I maintain these lists because she only cares to read, not list.

Locationarlington, virginia and pristina, kosovo

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Member sinceApr 3, 2007

Currently readingMythology by Edith Hamilton
Four Novels of George Eliot (Wordsworth Special Editions) by George Eliot
Books (Little Black Book) by Lucy Daniel