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John Goerzen

We have a problem. Our family reads. We have lots of books. And they haven't been well-organized. We have run out of storage space. So it's time to get organized. Here's the result. 1/

Photo showing the spine of books on a bookshelf. Each book has a plastic label attached showing a Library of Congress Classification (LCC) as well as a QR code.
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Ji Fu
@jgoerzen I rarely go read a book more than once which is one reason why I nearly always get books from the public library, and only if I think I will want to read it again, more often to reference non-fiction than fiction, will I buy it. Do you find that you go back and look at these thousands of books again and again? Then again chances are our family probably owns over 1,000 too with all the kids' books, but I only catalog those that are "mine"
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John Goerzen

@fu We are a household of 5, so it falls into a few categories. I'm finding shelves hold a lot more books than I thought!

- Children's books
- My wife's reference material (about 400 books). Most of them belong to her but are kept at her workplace. She uses them regularly.

I enjoy the sort of book that I rarely find in a library. In fact, I'm more likely to find copies DISCARDED by a library than in a library; books about tech from the 80s and 90s, etc. 1/

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John Goerzen

@fu I love used bookstores. One of my favorite places to visit when traveling, in fact. Even for newer books, I often don't see what I'm interested in at the library. The library might have stuff about how to use Excel or Python, but not a book about how Facebook's data collection impacts mental health. I do read a fair number of ebooks, which aren't included in my numbers. 2/

John Goerzen

@fu Generally, I find that the libraries I have access to are inferior to independent bookstores (used or otherwise) for serendipitous discovery, and to online bookstores (again, used or otherwise) for specific targets. I mean, there are probably few libraries in the world that still have Kermit or UUCP manuals, or obscure biographies from a certain small town in Kansas, or a German songbook published in Ohio in 1890. If I don't keep them, I may never be able to read them again. /end

Aug 29, 2024, 07:41 PM·Public
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