still here

Jeez, I've been lousy about posting anything in this blog. Not that I haven't been meaning to -- at least to mention that I'm still here. You can find evidence by clicking on the link above to New Arrivals and see that I have at least been cataloging books every once in a while. I really should copy the listings as they occur over to here, because I don't think searchbots check the data in Docs (even if shared publicly). I may be wrong about that, but when I tried a search one time the blog entry came up but not the doc entry. My thinking now, never to be relied on, is to make it a goal to catalog five books a day, and transfer the entry here. Ideally, I should copy and paste the whole schmear here now, and maybe I will.
When I catalog books I usually have a random stack sitting beside me, and I just run them through in order, with no preference on which might best represent my inventory. I have been ending up with quite a few books I wouldn't have tried in my printed paper catalogs of yore, but these usually interest me as much as the speculative and supernatural fiction I specialize in. I won't go into the various factors that play in what books end up in my clutches. That would be propounding the obvious, but I will say that collectibility is not as high on the list as it probably should be.
Last weekend my wife put her foot down on all the stacks that have been creeping in on our living area (as opposed to my warehouse/office are in the cellar). They had just been accumulating at a quicker rate over time than I had been dispatching them to the listings and shelving them somewhere where they could hopefully later be found for sending. I hate to box up books that have not been cataloged, because there are plenty of other boxes in the same limbo where the way things have been going I might never get back to them.
Thanks to my covershot photos I am able to see inside these boxes (and you can too), so the gone is not necessarily forgotten. Now that I've boxed up most of the recent used-book arrivals, I have it in mind to fight against the current by at least cataloging five books a day -- making how many in a year? Plenty! Of course I realize that my past is littered with such well-conceived but ill-executed schemes...so less talking about it, and more the doing of it!