Friday - August 22, 2008

 Whew.  

 In the new KnitPicks catalog, they have Marcel's Sweater (Ravelry link) in a really intense blue.  I've wanted to do it in that kind of color since it came out, and it's nice to see how good it looks.  

In other news, the reason that I haven't been blogging much this week: Caleb has been away, and I undertook a big project.  We have four full-sized bookshelves in the bedroom.  (And two full and two half in one living room, and one full in the other living room.  Then I have my desk books.)  Since he left on Sunday, I have scanned and organized all of the books in the bedroom except for a few that are mixed in with a pile of magazines I need to sort and ten on top of the shelves.  This is, according to the software, 701 books.  

I'm using Booxter (but an older version), so for the newest books, with the ISBNs encoded on the barcodes, I just needed to scan them and then enter the location code.  (Each room has a letter, each bookcase in each room has a letter, and each shelf has a number.)   For the ones without the barcodes, I can type in the ISBN.  For the ones older than that, some LCCNs show up, but not many.  For the ones like the 1848 comparative grammar or the 1876 The Life of the Greeks and Romans, I type in the information.  I also cleaned the shelves and books.  I also have an office box overflowing with duplicates and books I don't want any more.  

Twelve shelves remain.  I really like having it all organized and knowing that I should be less likely that I buy copies of books I already have.

It's a good feeling.