Comments on: How I buy books http://www.georgettetan.com/2008/02/how-i-buy-books/ She who dies with the most books wins! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:09:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: tarlia http://www.georgettetan.com/2008/02/how-i-buy-books/#comment-852 tarlia Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:41:39 +0000 http://www.georgettetan.com/2008/02/how-i-buy-books/#comment-852 gid: The difference is all in selection of furniture. I have a computer table, which doesn't allow room for much else except a full desktop unit. My bed is on the floor. It's rather amazing how much room a bedframe takes up. I have at least half my book collection in here and there's plenty of room for more. I have 6 units of those three-tiered shelves stacked against the wall behind my door and only half of that is filled with books. The other half is filled with junk that I really should move elsewhere, but I lost a lot of storage space when I changed tables. I also have shelves outside on the stair landing, and that huge pile of coffee table books in the living room. J Scott: Hah! I'm not the only crazy one! :-D Used book stores are awesome. I'm always intrigued by anything the previous owner scribbled on the inside. I think I've seen that staircase book thing too. And the couch with shelving built into it. I'm still contemplating the <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Invisible-Book-Shelf/" rel="nofollow">invisible bookshelf</a> idea too. gid: The difference is all in selection of furniture. I have a computer table, which doesn’t allow room for much else except a full desktop unit. My bed is on the floor. It’s rather amazing how much room a bedframe takes up.

I have at least half my book collection in here and there’s plenty of room for more. I have 6 units of those three-tiered shelves stacked against the wall behind my door and only half of that is filled with books. The other half is filled with junk that I really should move elsewhere, but I lost a lot of storage space when I changed tables.

I also have shelves outside on the stair landing, and that huge pile of coffee table books in the living room.

J Scott: Hah! I’m not the only crazy one! :-D Used book stores are awesome. I’m always intrigued by anything the previous owner scribbled on the inside.

I think I’ve seen that staircase book thing too. And the couch with shelving built into it. I’m still contemplating the invisible bookshelf idea too.

]]> By: J Scott Savage http://www.georgettetan.com/2008/02/how-i-buy-books/#comment-851 J Scott Savage Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:01:36 +0000 http://www.georgettetan.com/2008/02/how-i-buy-books/#comment-851 Glad to know I'm not the only one who feels like books call him. I often leave for lunch and suddenly find myself at the bookstore. I love used book stores. I've also discovered that a lot of airport bookstores have a deal where you buy a paperback for full price and you can return it for 50%. I keep most of them, but several that I haven't liked I've returned. American Express also has a deal where you can earn points and cash them in for Barnes & Noble gift cards. I saw a cool blog recently where someone built a staircase with books along the side and between the risers. Cool idea. Glad to know I’m not the only one who feels like books call him. I often leave for lunch and suddenly find myself at the bookstore. I love used book stores. I’ve also discovered that a lot of airport bookstores have a deal where you buy a paperback for full price and you can return it for 50%. I keep most of them, but several that I haven’t liked I’ve returned. American Express also has a deal where you can earn points and cash them in for Barnes & Noble gift cards. I saw a cool blog recently where someone built a staircase with books along the side and between the risers. Cool idea.

]]> By: gid http://www.georgettetan.com/2008/02/how-i-buy-books/#comment-849 gid Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:04:38 +0000 http://www.georgettetan.com/2008/02/how-i-buy-books/#comment-849 where do u store your books? last i checked....your room wasn't big enough to live in and have a library in it too... i stopped buying my 'books' because i no longer have shelves/spaces to put them. where do u store your books?

last i checked….your room wasn’t big enough to live in and have a library in it too…

i stopped buying my ‘books’ because i no longer have shelves/spaces to put them.

]]> By: tarlia http://www.georgettetan.com/2008/02/how-i-buy-books/#comment-843 tarlia Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:23:50 +0000 http://www.georgettetan.com/2008/02/how-i-buy-books/#comment-843 headhunter: Good point. I forgot about the social connection. Maybe it's because it's never a factor when I want to do something personal like cataloguing my books. headhunter: Good point. I forgot about the social connection. Maybe it’s because it’s never a factor when I want to do something personal like cataloguing my books.

]]> By: headhunter http://www.georgettetan.com/2008/02/how-i-buy-books/#comment-842 headhunter Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:27:08 +0000 http://www.georgettetan.com/2008/02/how-i-buy-books/#comment-842 LibraryThing pwns Shelfari imo. No contest. Shelfari may be "free" but its range of features is pathetic. On Shelfari, the books are secondary, the social connections more emphasized. As a bibliophile, I think the emphasis is completely misplaced. LT primarily gets the cataloging right first and THEN the range of social features (which as it happens is still better than Shelfari's!). Personally, I think that Librarything and GoodReads (another excellent book cataloging site) are heads and shoulders above the competition. LibraryThing pwns Shelfari imo.

No contest. Shelfari may be “free” but its range of features is pathetic.

On Shelfari, the books are secondary, the social connections more emphasized. As a bibliophile, I think the emphasis is completely misplaced. LT primarily gets the cataloging right first and THEN the range of social features (which as it happens is still better than Shelfari’s!).

Personally, I think that Librarything and GoodReads (another excellent book cataloging site) are heads and shoulders above the competition.

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