So I’m working on another app, something for collection management, and for test data, I’ve asked the clanker to not only extract data from the desktop book database from 2000 that’s creaking under the load of the 3000 books I’ve got on the reference and read shelves but to also go through this blog’s Good Book Hunting posts to add books that I have purchased in the last 20 years but have not yet read.
Ah, gentle reader, I have gotten much better about meticulously enumerating each title and author because I know I’ll want to include the information about when I bought the book when I write a book report on it, but in the olden days, I just kinda summed up what I bought. Like this from 2013:
- 45 Executioner titles.
- 15 Mack Bolan titles.
- 3 Able Team titles.
- 9 Stony Man titles.
- 2 Soldiers of Barrabas (S.O.B.s) titles.
- 2 The Mercenary titles.
- 1 Agents of War title.
- 1 Soldiers of War title.
Eat your heart out, Mr. Kenney.
Wow, I’ve been reading Glorious Trash for at least 13 years. Wow.
So I’ve been expanding on those by going through the posts, looking at the photos, and expanding [Books on Mah Jongg, kites, upholstering] and A collection of books about (South) Korea, including a couple touristy guides to attractions, two books on speaking Korean, a Korean dictionary, and a couple books about the art of Korea. into individual books in a comma-separated values file to import into my new app.
And, suddenly, I have 2400 books and counting that I have not yet read (I am to [Bound copy of the Constitution], so almost to the letter C in the roll-up items).
It certainly won’t be a comprehensive list of the books I own–some books do not get enumerated in Good Book Hunting posts, and I’ve bought a bunch before the start of the blog.
I guess this is most interesting to me. And maybe at the end, I’ll do a page or post rolling it up.
Also, note that I did myself no favors when I didn’t turn the spines to face the camera, like this:
Clearly, I just wanted to get Ajax in the photo. And these older posts are a trip down memory lane with the photos of the then-contemporaneous cats inspecting the purchases.
