On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Biju Chacko <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I find that my collection of books is growing beyond what I can > > conveniently keep in my head. Can anyone suggest a tool or service to > > track this info? > > Before you go down this slippery slope, pause and think about: > > (a) The monetary and emotional costs to you of not keeping track and > loosing an occasional book > (b) The amount of time you will spend creating your first list > (c) The amount of time you will spend keeping this list up to date > (d) The cost of the angst when you are unable to keep the list up to date >
I would agree with Thaths on this one, and add the obsession factor to it. I collected (used books) almost the entire works of Wodehouse and Agatha Christie, and also got a book that gave the chronology of the latter's books. So then I arranged them according to that, and gave myself a lot of grief as the books, if and when taken out to read, had to be returned to the same place, and as when I lost a couple of books, the gap, and the loss they represented, was (as I realized later) not worth it. Now the books are in a nice warm jumble, and no, you cannot borrow them. Deepa.
