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About me Working in my college library sparked the cataloging instinct in me. After college I taught myself MS Access(tm) and created my own database. It grew over the years, but I've never learned enough programming to grab data directly from the libraries, so LibraryThing is a great time saver.... I take it back. LT is a time sink. Hours and hours spent adding books, verifying data, reading messages, etc.

I have many interests: books, bookmaking, fantasy, science fiction, cats, beading, crochet, embroidery, anime, math, astronomy, folklore, etc. It will be interesting to see how my reading habits reflect the above when I've finished cataloging.

About my library I'm slowly catching up on 7 years of cataloging. My home catalog is time-intensive to update, so I slacked off my data entry. I was hoping that LibraryThing would magically solve all of my problems: PDA scanner in one hand, finished catalog in the other! But I've found that I still need to compare each book to the catalog entry. Oh well, it is saving me a lot of typing and makes checking for library entries so much easier than when I was using the old LOC telnet interface. 7/24/06 I've just finished adding all of the books in my bedroom. As soon as I've verified all of the information, it's on to the rest of the house. 10/21/06 Most of the rest of the house is quick-scanned in. I've verified the bedroom books, but found six more boxes to enter. I need to check one of the bookcases. 3/12/07 99% of my books are in; now it's just data verfication and finding the few strays as I organize the library.

LocationCalifornia, MD

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Member sinceNov 29, 2005

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Did you name your cat from the Westing Game? That's wonderful!

posted by lilyfyrestorm at 2:44 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2008

Sometimes I can be patient :-) It depends on the book. When I requested Vampire Knight I had just started reading manga and had a few different series I was actively reading so it was easy to wait. I've also had some instances where I've gotten sick of waiting for the library books to come in and just order them from the book store or Amazon.

The library I go to shelves the manga in the front room of the library where the periodicals are. Their manga/graphic novel collection keeps growing and it has pretty much taken over that particular wall. The young adult books used to be in the same place, although the "teen" section is in a separate room over in the children's wing. Now they've moved the YA section to a back corner past the reference books, but the teen section is still in the same place. I'm not quite sure how they differenciate between teen and young adult, but I think it might be a space matter more than anything else.

I can't imagine a library having so small a fiction section that they're just all mixed together!

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 4:27 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2008

I hope it gets there soon, sometimes it takes a while. It took 6 months for my reqeust for the first Vampire Knight manga to come in.

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 8:41 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2008

Hi! I was looking at my shared libraries and looking at what books we share. There are quite a few. I love your kitty riding the dragon, is that new? It totally cracked me up :-) Just had to let you know. I have a pic on my computer of Spiderman riding my cat, maybe I should put it up too.

BTW-Still waiting on xxxHolic volume 1 to come in from the library *sigh*

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 11:48 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2008

Thanks a ton!! I feel so stupid that I put volume 1 up on BookMooch (I've been taking the rest of the series out from the library). It was one of the first manga I read and didn't really get into it at the time. I should of given it more of a chance before doing that.

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 7:45 am (EST) on Mar 13, 2008

Hi! I was re-reading a comment you had made on the CLAMPers group and was wondering if you could tell me which volume Watanuki goes to get that hangover remedy from the Legal Drug store. I really want to go back and read it, but I have to get it from the library and knowing which volume would make it tons easier than just guessing on which one to request.

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 10:43 am (EST) on Mar 12, 2008

Thanks for your answer!

posted by koffieyahoo at 8:43 pm (EST) on Feb 5, 2008

Hi,

You seem quite active with combining the books of mangaka. Therefore, I have a question you might be able to answer: I some times run into the work of some mangaka while doing some combiningseparating. Now the problem is I don't really dare to do combiningseparting for those artists, as somtimes the volume numbers of the translations don't match with the volume numbers of the originals. For example, today I came across Takehiko Inoue and some of his books seem to have been translated in English, German, and French... So here comes the question: do you know of any good resource from which I can found out this information?

posted by koffieyahoo at 1:26 am (EST) on Feb 5, 2008

The first time I see a library with a (much) larger Manga content then my own. I am impressed. Just wondering where you store your books.

posted by Papiervisje at 5:34 pm (EST) on Jan 8, 2008

OK, two things. First - one reason HanDBase is so good is that it can import .csv files - so all my many years' attempts at cataloging stuff went in relatively easily. Note the relatively - I'm still setting up some of my databases.

Second - your cataloging sounds a lot like mine! I have had all my SF books cataloged several times, but until LT came along I never managed to completely catalog the rest of my books, and I'm still not quite finished (a shelf here, a box there...and then there's the new purchases...). But with LT's help I've got a better catalog than ever before, and have started tracking stuff I never could before (reading dates, for instance). A wonderful thing - and an enormous time sink, you got that right!

posted by jjmcgaffey at 11:40 am (EST) on Dec 2, 2007

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