Hello fellow addicts! It's been a while. But naturally, this is the first thread I post in as I wander back in. 😁
Some things have changed. Those of you who know me might notice the change of location in my info over there
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Moved twice, actually, at the end of January of this year and again at the end of March, though only one of those moves was planned. Long story. Anyway, it's been a few years of chaos but I think I'm settled now, mostly. So naturally, on this weird spring weekend, I decided to get my records updated, so to speak.
Some of you may recall that I did a "Goodreads Dump" back in 2020 (wow, both feels like yesterday and a thousand years ago) in which I imported my Amazon purchases into GR and then exported to csv, stripped it down to the unread owned books and then dumped them into Calibre as empty book records (Import List plugin is a treasure) with the intent of wrangling the whole pile into something that makes sense.
Then a month or so later, I prompty forgot about it / gave up / blocked it from my mind... Who knows? It was a weird time.
Today, I repeated the process, cut it down to books purchased since the last dump, and imported, which ended up being a total of 171 books added. Some of these are paper books but most of them are not. I've somehow added an average of almost 6 books per month. I don't know how. I don't remember doing it. But apparently I did.
So here I am. Apparently I still have a "problem".
Sidebar: When I moved from Nashville, I left at least 95% of my paper books behind. I now have one rotating bamboo bookcase (which I adore, it's lovely) that is about 14" square and will hold about 100 books, give or take depending on book thickness. It's not full, it probably has about 50 or so books on it now. I've kept mostly poetry, reference / other non-fiction in the paper collection.