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Feb. 3rd, 2008 10:47 am20 min. 3.5 mi. Total: 644.5 From Rivendell: 182.5 mi. Rolling lands.
Feb. 3rd, 2008
So help me, I did it...
Feb. 3rd, 2008 11:12 pm...I organized all my books by color.
Well, not all of them - the paperbacks were just too much for me, especially as I have to double-stack them because I don't have enough shelf space*, so it's all the hardbacks and most of the trade paperbacks. No way in hell was I going to do the manga - just enough of them had different color books in each series that I didn't want to break the series up, and I need to organize those by No Longer Collecting/Finished and Still Collecting anyway, to minimize the amount of reshuffling I have to do when acquiring new manga.
It was hard, because I had to rearrange all the books I own and move the manga to a different set of bookcases, which I had to first clean off all the piles of random crap that had been sitting there waiting for me to clean them off for over a year. And don't even get me into things like figuring out where brown books should go and if a book was white, yellow, or tan, etc. (I did them in Roy G Biv order, which means a light tan book is going to look odd no matter where it's placed. I arbitrarily decided brown was a color between orange and yellow.)
Anyway, it looks nifty and there was an odd effect that I hadn't expected. I've got three different styles of bookcases, which has always bugged me because they're all slightly different sizes and they look horrible together.** But reshelving the books by color takes the focus completely off the cases and puts it on the books, and you don't notice that the bookcases are all different.
And then I took a hot bath with a Lush bath bomb in it, and watched the Miss America pageant because it required absolutely no brainpower. I was pulling for Miss Washington as her last name indicated she was at least part Japanese, and I don't think there's ever been an Asian Miss America, plus she nailed her song and was generally a happy, bubbly person, but she only got 2nd runner-up. Ah well.
I did a lot of work today. I'm going to hurt like hell tomorrow.
( And now ... a poll! )
* And I hate that all the bookshelves I own are deep enough to do this, because I hate double-stacking books, but I hate wasting the space with one wimpy little row of paperbacks even more.
** Don't bother mentioning you don't care about that. The point is, I do.
Well, not all of them - the paperbacks were just too much for me, especially as I have to double-stack them because I don't have enough shelf space*, so it's all the hardbacks and most of the trade paperbacks. No way in hell was I going to do the manga - just enough of them had different color books in each series that I didn't want to break the series up, and I need to organize those by No Longer Collecting/Finished and Still Collecting anyway, to minimize the amount of reshuffling I have to do when acquiring new manga.
It was hard, because I had to rearrange all the books I own and move the manga to a different set of bookcases, which I had to first clean off all the piles of random crap that had been sitting there waiting for me to clean them off for over a year. And don't even get me into things like figuring out where brown books should go and if a book was white, yellow, or tan, etc. (I did them in Roy G Biv order, which means a light tan book is going to look odd no matter where it's placed. I arbitrarily decided brown was a color between orange and yellow.)
Anyway, it looks nifty and there was an odd effect that I hadn't expected. I've got three different styles of bookcases, which has always bugged me because they're all slightly different sizes and they look horrible together.** But reshelving the books by color takes the focus completely off the cases and puts it on the books, and you don't notice that the bookcases are all different.
And then I took a hot bath with a Lush bath bomb in it, and watched the Miss America pageant because it required absolutely no brainpower. I was pulling for Miss Washington as her last name indicated she was at least part Japanese, and I don't think there's ever been an Asian Miss America, plus she nailed her song and was generally a happy, bubbly person, but she only got 2nd runner-up. Ah well.
I did a lot of work today. I'm going to hurt like hell tomorrow.
( And now ... a poll! )
* And I hate that all the bookshelves I own are deep enough to do this, because I hate double-stacking books, but I hate wasting the space with one wimpy little row of paperbacks even more.
** Don't bother mentioning you don't care about that. The point is, I do.