Trying my best to copy Don, I bought an espresso machine and started playing around with LibraryThing. It’s my day off, so I’m going to spend it on caffeine, reading like a madman, and blogging like crazy to make up for the severe lack of posts lately. Stay tuned.
As for the reading: In addition to being a National Book Award nominee, Gene Yang did his master’s thesis on comics and education. Dover Thrift has some really cheap, really amazing art books. Joann Sfar is one of the best men in comics, period. McCarthy’s new book is dark, depressing, and beautiful — like his last one, I think it’s basically a pulp novel, begging to be made into a movie. Saul Steinberg is January’s greatest (re)discovery. Arnheim’s book is on Tufte’s reading list, so I’m down.
My wife took it upon herself to get my whole (or almost whole) comic collection into LibraryThing. The cover view option is great.
that is crazy. i hope she used a barcode scanner!
No barcode scanner. She just loves organizing stuff. She even scanned covers that were missing.
wow!
if you like librarything you should check out http://www.shelfari.com/ the graphics are a lot better and http://www.listal.com where you can input all your media including books, dvds, tv shows, etc etc….
yeah, i really don’t want to use it for cataloging, just keeping track of the books i’m reading so that I can post them real easy to the blog…
i find the idea of cataloging everything in my apartment really creepy…not to mention inviting to thieves!!