Re: [Meta] Wait, you sort your books how???

On 7/16/2024 1:37 AM, Titus G wrote:

On 16/07/24 02:01, Tony Nance wrote:

On 7/15/24 9:54 AM, Tony Nance wrote:

On 7/15/24 9:48 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <v738di$n4rq$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

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More signs of madness in this crazy world:
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I just ran across the results of a poll that asked 29,000 Americans
about their book-owning habits, and friends, I am shocked — shocked! —
to report that there are people who have absolutely no organizational
system whatsoever. Worse — worse, I tell you — there are some who sort
their books by color. Color!
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Here’s a link to the main source (published in October):
https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/47712-how-many-books-americans-own-and-how-they-organize-them
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Tony

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I could read the link, I suppose, but I wonder how many people actually
have a sufficient number of books such that they need to be organized.

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That is indeed a point mentioned in the article.
- Tony
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Whoops - I thought I hit "draft" while I looked it up, but instead I
must have hit "publish by accident" ... anyhow:
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That is indeed a point mentioned in the article:
"One in five Americans (20%) say they own between one and 10 physical
books, while 14% own between 11 and 25 books, and 13% between 26 and 50."
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Tony

 I thought I owned about 50 real books but after curiosity motivated a
count, I discovered I own 140 of which about 30 are of SF genre in a
separate bookcase in no particular order other than series/trilogies in
sequence. The children's books are together as are the 1960's FI and
Indianapolis racing books but the rest are a muddle. All are simply dust
collectors including the 30 SF favourites as they are duplicated as
ebooks using Calibre. When I finish reading a book, I delete it from the
Kindle on which I store books to be read, collections and some
non-fiction stuff. My understanding is that I do not legally own ebooks
on my PC in Calibre whose library system is suitable for me for 2000+
ebooks.
 When I do enter the spare bedroom where the SF bookcase is, I do get a
small pleasure from speed reading the titles, a different experience to
reading a title in Calibre.

How many e books have you bought?
I (and I expect many of the regulars in this group) own well over a
thousand physical books. It was one of the hallmarks of an SF fan
until ebooks became viable.
A favorite quote on the topic:
"I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor
silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling
cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of
endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid
of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing
room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on
the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in
the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took
volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of
finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of
finding a new blade of grass."
  - CS Lewis
pt