My original motivator was Hurricane Gustav, but I quickly got bored and stopped after three shelves or something like that. Whereas with the move, I knew I had to get everything from the upstairs bookshelves to boxes downstairs, and I thought I might as well take note of them all as they were going into stacks.

The Dud Avocado was pretty good. It’s the terrible thing of expectations that causes all my problems! I bought it because someone compared it to Joan Wyndham, whose diaries I read last year, and it’s nothing like as charming as Joan Wyndham. But still good though, well worth a read.

It is a lot of work. My advice is to check out a DVD box set of some really good TV show, and watch the entire thing while you are doing the cataloging. That makes the time fly by. 🙂

Thanks! I’m not doing so well in May, though, I’m hardly reading anything!

I had so much fun cataloguing all my books when I first joined LibraryThing (I did it before moving to the UK to study, so it sounds like moves are a great motivator :P). The insurance idea is an excellent one!

That is the same guy, yes. I read both books, and I think I slightly preferred the encyclopedia one – I think because I can understand the impulse to read a whole encyclopedia. But I’d never ever do all the commands of the Bible.

Your favorite of the year? Impressive recommendation! I am enjoying it so far and keep wanting to mark passages that are particularly witty or incisive. I love the narrator’s voice!

I always figure I can remember most of where I got books – and I do, mostly – but not what books I had.