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Aug 2, 2006
About My Library
My library is very eclectic with lots of everything now including Romance (I discovered Georgette Heyer). Once I own a book it seldom goes away. I am an absolute packrat.

I have started to add books I have read but don't own. I want a record of my reading and that must include outside books. Discovering I had pages of books I wanted to read I finally decided to use the collection wishlist to record them. It is regretted that this adds books to the overall collection but I need the convenient computer list.

My tags are usually whatever crosses my mind when I am entering them. It depends on how much I know about the book and how clever I am that day. Almost always the first tag will be fiction or non-fiction. If I list an ebook the tags start with @kindle.
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I am retired and so get to play all day, reading and frolicking on the computer. Definitely a grasshopper life.
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Belmont, North Carolina
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