Day Zero Project: Make a list of all the books we own

This is one of those targets that I gave myself because I like the idea of having a nice little database of all my books so that when I’m looking at books in shops I’ll have an easy way to check and see if it’s a book I already have in my collection.

I have used my book journal in the past to keep a record of some of the books that I own, so putting the last three volumes of book journals together gives me a pretty good list of some of the books in my collection. As does my handy To Read list on here. Part of the reason why I listed books in this way was to keep track of which order they were to be read in (like the Discworld series) or to have a note of which ones I still needed to buy (like the Edge Chronicles series).

But that nice big database is still eluding me. Perhaps because it’s going to be a massive job to actually catalogue all my books and then maintain it. It’s kind of a logistical nightmare because I wouldn’t just be able to list the book title and author because some books, *cough*LordoftheRings*cough*, exist on my bookcase in multiple editions. I’d need to come up with a way to list all of those.

And in doing that I’d want to find pictures of all of them.


Besides, there’s already websites for that. I’m even a member of two of them; GoodReads and LibraryThing. It’s just a question of actually sitting down and feeding all the information into them. Hopefully now that I’ve finished my course I might have the time to actually get on top of this.

How do you keep track of all the books you own?