Last night I spent a couple of hours cataloging my books for entry into LibraryThing. A lot of my books (perhaps even the majority) don’t have ISBNs, having been printed before ISBNs started, and so I get to enter a lot by hand. But it’s fun. And I’m discovering books I’d forgotten I owned, which is always a delightful adventure. I’ve still got a long way to go with cataloging the books, though — several hundred left. That’s what I’ll do tonight and tomorrow.

As far as reading goes, I’m still in Jane Eyre and War and Peace, both of which I’m enjoying heartily. I also finished reading Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, a book about graphs and information display. It’s a good read. And I just went to the library and checked out two books that look good: Brenda Ueland’s If You Want to Write and Mark Robert Waldman’s The Spirit of Writing. It’s been a while since I read any books on writing, but they’re some of my favorites. Books about books and writing and the word make me happy.

Now I just need more time for reading… Right now I’ve got a Music 201 midterm coming up, though, so I probably should be spending my time reading the textbook. ~sigh~

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