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Posted on 06/26/2004 8:07:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Special Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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tore through the Harry Potters week before last, then the Chronicles of Amber last week.
'Course, if I could get 'em organized, I'd probably sell them all....
No - I decided to do something sobering, like look at the bills that came in last month while we were distracted ;~D
"same here...re-reading Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun"
My friend gave me that series a while back, but I've never read it yet--keep meaning to. I guess if you're rereading it it's good, then? :)
"Oh, man... if I could get my comics organized, I'd be set for reading material."
How do you organize yours? I do mine alphabetically by publisher first and then by title, and I keep them in those long cardboard boxes. I used to have a wooden bookcase built especially for them but I sold that a while back.
"'Course, if I could get 'em organized, I'd probably sell them all...."
Let me know if you do! I sold mine once. Now I wish I had back the ones I sold! Had every Spider-Man from about 1970-1990, plus many from the 60s--before the prices went up. . .Now it's going to cost me a fortune to buy them back. I've managed to re-acquire a few, but have a long way to go.
Mine are in a pile at my feet. The only things I opened were a letter from Debra in Afghanistan and the package from 2J!
I am still too busy to look at the bills.... *thumb twiddling*
a little on the heavy side though...
Uh-oh, what's wrong? Do you need somebody's ax?
go?
Heh... my shelves aren't alphabetically. They're sorted by how much I like the author, and also to make sure that no author's books get split up onto two shelves. So I have Heinlein in pride-of-place, with Tolkien on the tallest shelf since they're hardcover. Mysteries are shoved down near the bottom because I don't read them as much.
But, um, that's a little obsessive. How many comics do you have, anyway?
Nothing. Just fed up with this crappy day.
Uh-oh, Ruthy's pulling her hair! Que pasa, chica?
"Nothing. Just fed up with this crappy day."
E-hug to Ruthy :)
I thought you had no payrolls and time to freep today. :-(
Sorry. Hope it's over soon!
Bout the time you leave is when I have to go to work today.
"Heh... my shelves aren't alphabetically. They're sorted by how much I like the author,"
ROFL! I never thought of that method! Sounds practical, though, actually.
"and also to make sure that no author's books get split up onto two shelves. So I have Heinlein in pride-of-place, with Tolkien on the tallest shelf since they're hardcover."
I try to do that, too, but unfortunately my illustrated Rankin-Bass version of "The Hobbit" is too big to fit on the shelf with my Tolkien books, so it's on the top of the next case, next to the CS Lewis books, which drives me nuts because it's out of order :)
"Mysteries are shoved down near the bottom because I don't read them as much.
"But, um, that's a little obsessive."
Speaking of obsessive: :)
My books are organized according to my own card-catalog system, which I'm constantly revising as I debate philosophical questions about how different genres and subgenres relate to each other. For instance: is horror a branch of fantasy or not? Do I put Poe's collected works in the general, horror, sf, or mystery section? Should comic books be filed under sf or as a separate genre? Etc.
Now the above are just issues in my modern fiction section genre subsection, which comes after my pre-modern fiction section. Then we have nonfiction, which is broken down into:
General/encylopedia/research tools (scattered on various bookcases)
Philosophy (1 big bookcase to itself, covering everyone from the ancient Greeks to the deconstructionists)
Math and hard sciences (Bookcase 2)
Life sciences, psychology, and parapsychology (Bookcase 3)
Social sciences and anthropology, including education, business, economics, politics, and comparative religion, with religions arranged historically in order of their emergence--i.e., Judaism before Christianity, etc. (Bookcase 4)
More religion (Bookcase 5)
Mostly martial arts, subdivided by country of origin (China, Japan, Korea, US, etc.) and style; along with other sports/games, etc. (Bookcase 6)
At this point I began to run out of room, so I had to put some stuff out of order where it would fit in the house. In addition to the above 6 bookcases which are mostly in the basement, I had to fit 4 bookcases of fiction and 3 bookcases of history elsewhere. Walk-in closets are handy. . .
Does that qualify as obsessive? :)
"How many comics do you have, anyway?"
I think only about 1200 now. I used to have two or three times that many before I sold my collection with my Spider-Mans and X-Men and other stuff I wish I had now--sigh.
BTW you have mail.
By publisher, then by title. Unfortunately, we've made several abortive attempts to get them organized, so some parts are and some parts aren't, and the parts that are are mixed in with the parts that aren't...
Oh, prefer the short boxes here... the long boxes get too heavy and unwieldy for me to carry. Once fell down the stairs in my parents home while trying to carry a longbox down... luckily the comics weren't hurt.
Oh, neither was I... ;)
Testing this. As some of you know, I no longer have a camera with which to photograph our packages. I am trying scanning one of the customs forms so you can see what we're sending out. If this works I will scan the rest - though I only have one done now and I have to go to work shortly.
Looks okay in preview. Will have others to post tonight or tomorrow.
"luckily the comics weren't hurt.
Oh, neither was I... ;)"
LOL! Yeah, broken bones heal, but a bent cover on a comic is irreparable :)
The short boxes are definitely easier to carry! I usually use them for magazines, but now that you mention it buying more to store comics in might not be a bad idea.
On the organizing side, I used to try to keep an inventory of mine, too--first on notecards, then on computer. Kind of got behind on that, but one of these days I need to do that again. Otherwise I go to a convention and can't remember what issues I need!--have accidentally bought a few doubles that way :)
The scan shows up fine on my browser.
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