how many books do you own?

[Diamond]

I'd like one of these...

That looks mighty uncomfortable.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I don't get how you walk upstairs with the left hand one...it looks like you have to tread on books

 

[Orang Utan]

How to fool Mrs M

heh, this is supposed to be a memoir of growing up with right-on parents - attending woodcraft folk, not being allowed to watch itv etc etc

 

[Orang Utan]

I don't get how you walk upstairs with the left hand one...it looks like you have to tread on books

that confused me til i saw the door at the bottom - it's looking downstairs and the right hand photo is looking upstairs

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I've started to try and keep track by cataloguing using Endnotes, but that's a long ongoing project. But when I was doing it I came across a paperback book called "The Collapsing Universe" by Isaac Asimov. Inside was a bookplate showing that it had been awarded to a friend when at school as a history prize. We only see him once a year and I've had the book by the side of my pooter for months ready to return to him - which I did last night. "I wondered where that had gone! This was the book that inspired me to do what I do now, thanks so much". Just shows what effect education and schools can have ... this Croydon comp had made an effort with giving book prizes to kids, and as a result this particular kid ended up working for NASA finding the signatures of black holes.

Always return books you have borrowed! You may never know how much they mean to someone.

Incidentally, for bibliophiles with Macs, there is a dedicated book-cataloguing program called Delicious Library (for reasons best known to itself) which scans the barcode on each book with your webcam. It also has functions for checking books in and out when you lend them to people, and will set a reminder for when to go round their house with a pair of pliers.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I don't get how you walk upstairs with the left hand one...it looks like you have to tread on books

Bless you

 

[Diamond]

Incidentally, for bibliophiles with Macs, there is a dedicated book-cataloguing program called Delicious Library (for reasons best known to itself) which scans the barcode on each book with your webcam. It also has functions for checking books in and out when you lend them to people, and will set a reminder for when to go round their house with a pair of pliers.

But does it arrange them in alphabetical order?

 

[weepiper]

I wouldn't be surprised if I went home and found something like this at Mrs M's

when I win the lottery I shall buy that for my mum.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Incidentally, for bibliophiles with Macs, there is a dedicated book-cataloguing program called Delicious Library (for reasons best known to itself) which scans the barcode on each book with your webcam. It also has functions for checking books in and out when you lend them to people, and will set a reminder for when to go round their house with a pair of pliers.

Oh jesus. Now I have a 'rest of the summer' project. Thanks and thanks

 

[Pickman's model]

Incidentally, for bibliophiles with Macs, there is a dedicated book-cataloguing program called Delicious Library (for reasons best known to itself) which scans the barcode on each book with your webcam. It also has functions for checking books in and out when you lend them to people, and will set a reminder for when to go round their house with a pair of pliers.

what's it do for books without isbns?

 

[Voley]

heh, this is supposed to be a memoir of growing up with right-on parents - attending woodcraft folk, not being allowed to watch itv etc etc

That sounds quite promising tbh. I could sympathise.

 

[Pickman's model]

But does it arrange them in alphabetical order?

title or author?

 

[Belushi]

heh, this is supposed to be a memoir of growing up with right-on parents - attending woodcraft folk, not being allowed to watch itv etc etc

'Pleas Daddy, I want to watch Tiswas'

 

[DotCommunist]

Incidentally, for bibliophiles with Macs, there is a dedicated book-cataloguing program called Delicious Library (for reasons best known to itself) which scans the barcode on each book with your webcam. It also has functions for checking books in and out when you lend them to people, and will set a reminder for when to go round their house with a pair of pliers.

is it free and can I run it on my 10.4.11 machine? (PowerMac6,4)

 

[cesare]

Incidentally, for bibliophiles with Macs, there is a dedicated book-cataloguing program called Delicious Library (for reasons best known to itself) which scans the barcode on each book with your webcam. It also has functions for checking books in and out when you lend them to people, and will set a reminder for when to go round their house with a pair of pliers.

That's clever! I quite like Endnotes but it takes a while because you have to type in the ISBN then Endnotes references it against various libraries on-line so you can choose which edition it is etc.

 

[Voley]

Incidentally, for bibliophiles with Macs, there is a dedicated book-cataloguing program called Delicious Library (for reasons best known to itself) which scans the barcode on each book with your webcam. It also has functions for checking books in and out when you lend them to people, and will set a reminder for when to go round their house with a pair of pliers.

This says a lot about people that use Macs, imo.

<whistles nonchalantly>

 

[Belushi]

That sounds quite promising tbh. I could sympathise.

He was only allowed tp play with those educational wooden toys

 

[Diamond]

title or author?

Author, por supuesto.

 

[JimW]

Guessing less than 2,000 tho a fair few are in boxes back at folks in UK, so maybe more.

 

[cesare]

You must have a lot of storage space Diamond.

 

[Voley]

'Pleas Daddy, I want to watch Tiswas'

That happened to me. My mate's parents wouldn't let us watch it so we had to run round me Dad's. He was already watching it himself. I think he liked Sally James a bit too much truth be told. My Mum had just kicked him out.

 

[Diamond]

You must have a lot of storage space Diamond.

I was taking the piss.

In reality, can't be more than 150-200.

I just though there was an element of liberal willy-waving to the thread.

 

[Belushi]

That happened to me. My mate's parents wouldn't let us watch it so we had to run round me Dad's. He was already watching it himself. I think he liked Sally James a bit too much truth be told. My Mum had just kicked him out.

We werent allowed to watch it because my Mum thought Spit the Dog would encourage us to spit

 

[cesare]

I was taking the piss.

In reality, can't be more than 150-200.

I just though there was an element of liberal willy-waving to the thread.

What's liberal and willy-waving about books?

 

[Voley]

We werent allowed to watch it because my Mum thought Spit the Dog would encourage us to spit

A mate of mine wasn't allowed to watch Grange Hill because they said 'flippin eck' on it.

 

[Voley]

What's liberal and willy-waving about books?

Literacy is hideously bourgeois.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Of all the lulz in the world ... grabbed a stack of books close to hand to test out the barcode scanning on this delicious library thing and the first one I grab doesn't have a barcode lol.

 

[Diamond]

What's liberal and willy-waving about books?

Counting how many you have?

There's something a bit High Fidelity about it.

 

[cesare]

Literacy is hideously bourgeois.

Or, 'know your place'.

 

[DotCommunist]

Counting how many you have?

There's something a bit High Fidelity about it.

I don't think anyones actually gone and counted. I did a rough estimate.